After a drive through the forests of Pelham Bay Park, you will arrive on City Island, a world far, far away from the city. Founded…
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After a drive through the forests of Pelham Bay Park, you will arrive on City Island, a world far, far away from the city. Founded…
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Leave a CommentWoodside is an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Queens. It has long been the largest Irish American community in Queens, and even as the neighborhood has…
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Leave a CommentRego Park is a small residential neighborhood in Queens and home to Doug and Carrie Heffernan of the television sitcom “King of Queens”. Rego Park…
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Leave a CommentJackson Heights is a dizzyingly multicultural and international neighborhood, even by Queens standards. This bustling urban melting pot consists of many ethnic populations, especially Latin-Americans,…
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Leave a CommentMiddle Village is a quiet residential neighborhood in the heart of Queens, surrounded by huge cemeteries, such as St. John’s Cemetery to the east and…
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Leave a CommentOzone Park is a mainly residential neighborhood in Queens, located near John F. Kennedy Airport. The area has gained notoriety as a center of Mafia…
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Leave a CommentLeFrak City is a large housing development in Queens, built in the mid-1960s for working and middle-class families. The LeFrak strategy of “total facilities for…
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Leave a CommentMorris Park is a residential working-class neighborhood in the Bronx known for its Italian-American population. As a reflection of its heavily Italian-American and Catholic population,…
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Leave a CommentLocated in the northeast corner of the Bronx, Co-op City is the largest cooperative housing development in the world. Its 35 high-rise buildings and seven…
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Leave a CommentWoodlawn is a small residential neighborhood in the northern Bronx, bordering the city of Yonkers. The small community of fewer than 8,000 residents is known…
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Leave a CommentLocated in the heart of Queens, Elmhurst is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in New York City, populated by immigrants especially from Asia…
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Leave a CommentThe Staten Island Ferry is a passenger ferry between Manhattan and Staten Island. The ride takes about 25 minutes and it’s free of charge. The…
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Leave a CommentLike most areas on Staten Island, the seaside enclave of Tompkinsville has a rather suburban feel, far away from the big city. With the Staten…
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Leave a CommentCentral Park is a huge park in the heart of Manhattan. It has become one of the most famous parks due to many appearances in…
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Leave a CommentThe Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Manhattan. Once it was a rural hamlet, entirely separate from New…
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Leave a CommentThe East Village used to be a part of the Lower East Side, but when the Lower East Side became a slum, real estate developers…
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Leave a CommentThe West Village is a part of Greenwich Village and roughly contains the area between 6th Avenue and Hudson River. Christopher Street, known as the birthplace of…
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Leave a CommentSituated on a tiny peninsula, Gerritsen Beach is a small, very quiet residential neighborhood in the south of Brooklyn. With its narrow streets, waterside houses…
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