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Postal - your kind of limiting NYC. Here is a partial list, obviously there are many more.
Manhattan
Downtown
Lower East Side
Chinatown
Little Italy
Tribeca
SoHo
Greenwich Village
Chelsea
Midtown
Broadway-Theatre District
Upper East Side
Upper West Side
Morningside
Harlem
Washington Heights
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Heights
Williamsburg
Greenpoint
Bedford-Stuyvestant
Flatbush
Bushwick
Park Slope
East New York
Sheepshead Bay
Carnarsie
Bay Ridge
Coney Island
Brighton Beach
Queens
Astoria
Bayside
Long Island City
Jackson Heights
Flushing
Forest Hills
Jamaica
Kew Gardens
Little Neck
Howard Beach
Corona
Ridgewood
Rockaway Beach
The Bronx
City Island
Riverdale
Fordham
South Bronx
Co-Op City
Kingsbridge
Throgs Neck
Staten Island
St George
South Beach
Richmondtown
Tottenville
You're just naming neighborhoods. The question was nationally and internationally known neighborhoods. I grew up in New Jersey and my grandfather is from the Bronx, and even I have only heard of 2 of the places on your Bronx list: Fordham (because of the school) and the South Bronx (because of hip hop). I know zero of the places on your Staten Island list. I know 5 on your Queens list. Only on your Brooklyn and Manhattan lists have I heard of all of the neighborhoods, and again - I grew up only 1.5 hours away in Central Jersey. There's no way someone in Europe or South America or Australia, etc is going to know all those outer borough neighborhoods you listed.
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How is Hawthorne, CA more famous than Little Italy or Coney Island? Coney Island is the birthplace of theme parks in the United States (Luna, Dreamland).
Marilyn Monroe also lived there as a kid. (She also lived in Compton too. )
The coffee shop robbery scene in Pulp Fiction was filmed in the old Hawthorne Grill as well.
This thread is pretty silly. A town doesn't become famous because it's the hometown of a pop act.
Places are generally famous for something tangible, not because some member of some crappy band was born there 70 years ago.
Really the only semi-exception I can think of is Liverpool, but that's because the Beatles are the most famous musical act of all time. And even with the Beatles, Liverpool is hardly well-known.
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