New York City Neighborhoods travel guide

Former artists' haven is now a busy shopping district. Once known as the "Cast Iron District" because it boasts the most cast iron architectural features of any city in the world, SoHo - South of Housto...

New Yorkers just call it “The Village”. When the village of Greenwich was founded in 1696, it lay far outside the city. By 1811, when the chessboard-like street grid of Manhattan was adopted, Greenwich ...

The acronym stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge overdrive. An area that is rapidly changing: factory buildings are now apartments with a dream view of Manhattan, at East River Park is the longe...

Almost half of the approximately 300 000 New York's Chinese lived in Chinatown, and many, without a word to speak English: Chinese characters everywhere. For New Yorkers and their guests so that Asia ...

One of the hippest and youngest neighborhoods in Brooklyn - though pretentious because of its funky reputation. Though mullets and neon clothing are things of the past in other parts of the world, they...

This beautiful neighbourhood has a charm all its own. Brooklyn Heights (subway: High St.) stretches out at the mouth of the East River, between Brooklyn Bridge and Atlantic Avenue. This neighbourhood wa...

The centuries-old rival Manhattan produces counter-and alternative culture in the current band. Since about 140 years ago, when the independent from Brooklyn a suburb of New York was rubbing the Distric...

The soul of NYC, then and now. For decades, the Lower East Side was a kind of immigrant ghetto, ground zero for poor and working-class families trying to achieve their American dream. Though hints of th...

Down-to-earth neighborhood with loads of hipsters and pierogies. Located just north of Williamsburg, Greenpoint absorbs quite a bit of the hipster runoff; though you'd think the face of the neighborhood...