Coney Island is a peninsula, formerly an island, in the southernmost part of Brooklyn and a neighborhood of the same name. It is most famous…
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Long Island City is one of Queens’ coolest pockets these days, and it’s definitely on the move. L.I.C. is notable for its ongoing gentrification, its…
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Williamsburg – or Hipsterville, U.S.A. – is New York’s ‘it’ neighborhood of the current and the past decade. Therefore it is often referred to as…
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Gowanus has been an active center of industrial and shipping activity since as early as the 1860s. During that time, a small saltwater creek was…
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Harlem is the most famous African American neighborhood in the United States. Harlem has played a very important role for black history, black culture and the…
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Astoria is one of the cosiest and most beautiful neighborhoods in Queens. The neighborhood is home to the biggest Greek community outside of Greece. Greek…
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Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Bed-Stuy, is New York City’s largest African American neighborhood. During and after World War II, many African Americans, who migrated from the southern…
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Bushwick is a neighborhood in Brooklyn with a very large Latin American population. Many residents of Bushwick are immigrants from Puerto Rico and the Dominican…
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Melrose is a neighborhood in the South Bronx. The area around the intersection of 3rd Avenue and 149th Street is called The Hub. The Hub…
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Hell’s Kitchen is an area in Midtown Manhattan. It is also known as Midtown West or Clinton and it includes the area from 8th Avenue…
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Sunset Part is a very beautiful neighborhood in Brooklyn named after a park, which lies in the center of the neighborhood. This park affords visitors…
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Manhattan’s Chinatown is one of the largest enclaves of Chinese immigrants in the western hemisphere. In the 1980s it has even surpassed San Francisco’s famous Chinatown,…
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Corona is a neighborhood in Queens with a high proportion of Latin American residents. Corona’s Hispanic community consists of Mexicans, Dominicans, Colombians, Guatemalans, Bolivians, Peruvians…
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Named for England’s beach resort in 1868, Brighton Beach shows little connection with England considering its amount of signs in Cyrillic these days. Brighton Beach is…
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Crown Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn known for its black, especially Caribbean, and its Hasidic Jewish population and culture. The coexistence of these two…
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Fordham is probably one of the coolest ‘hoods in the Bronx. The main thoroughfare is Fordham Road, a broad street, on both sides filled with…
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Located in the southwestern part of Brooklyn, Borough Park is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods outside of Israel. This Orthodox Jewish enclave has…
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Concourse is a neighborhood in the South Bronx, situated to the west of the Grand Concourse, a major thoroughfare which was originally modeled on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The…
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