Brooklyn
Hardly Manhattan's wimpy sidekick, Brooklyn is the largest and most populous of all the boroughs, with more than 2.5 million residents. If it were an independent city, it would be the fourth-largest in...
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Central Park
The park's creators had a simple goal: Design a place where city dwellers can go to forget the city. And while the town eventually grew far taller than the trees planted to hide it, this goal never falters...
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East Village and the Lower East Side
The high concept of "La Bohème meets hipsters in vintage clothing," better known as the musical Rent, accurately pegs the East Village as a community of artists, activists, and other social dissenters...
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Greenwich Village and Chelsea
Long the home of writers, artists, bohemians, and bon vivants, the West Village is a singular section of the city. High-rises and office towers have no business among the small curving streets, peculiar...
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Harlem
Harlem is known throughout the world as a center of culture, music, and African-American life. Today's Harlem, however, is a very different Harlem from that of 15 years ago, when many considered it too...
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Lower Manhattan
Pirates, rogue politicians, upwardly mobile go-getters, robber barons, scrappy entrepreneurs, and roaming packs of pigs scouring the streets for garbage: no, this is not the group photo for any given presidential...
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Midtown
Washington D.C.'s got its Mall chockablock with landmarks, and we've got ours: Midtown, mobbed with more massive urban monuments—Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and Grand Central Terminal among...
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Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island
Many tourists miss out on seeing these three boroughs, and that's a shame. They contain some of the city's best restaurants, museums, and attractions. They're closer than you think, and certainly worth...
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SoHo and Little Italy
SoHo (South of Houston) and NoLita (North of Little Italy) are shopper's paradises, supertrendy, painfully overcrowded on the weekends, often overpriced, and undeniably glamorous. Not too long ago though...
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Union Square
Union Square refers to an area of the city anchored by Union Square Park, which resides between 14th and 17th streets and Broadway and Park Avenue South. If you're in this area on a Tuesday, Thursday...
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Upper East Side
To many New Yorkers the Upper East Side connotes old money and high society. Alongside Central Park, between 5th and Lexington avenues, up to East 96th Street, the trappings of wealth are everywhere apparent:...
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Upper West Side
Residents of the Upper West Side (which lies between West 59th and West 110th streets) will proudly tell you that they live in one of the last real neighborhoods in the city. That's highly debatable (as...
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