five favorite neighborhoods in each of these cities (university, to live in)

[Mr Ambitious]

What are your five favorite neighborhoods in each of these cities? You can even rank each city based on those five neighborhoods if you choose to do so. The cities are: NYC, LA, CHI, PHI, DC, SF, & MIA. For this this thread, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Miami Beach can be included as well.

[gt87]

Wow, that's 35 neighborhoods. I don't think I could even name that many. Anybody else?

[gladhands]

I'm going to base this on wanting to LIVE in the neighborhood, rather than just visiting


NYC (in no particular order):

Ft Greene
Park Slope
East Village
UWS
Brooklyn Heights

Chicago:
Wicker Park
Bucktown
Lincoln Park
Andersonville
Lincoln Square

DC:
Columbia Heights
DuPont Circle
Cleveland Park
Shaw
Adams Morgan


In the other cities, there are no more than three or four neighborhoods that I know well.

[UrbanCheetah]

Originally Posted by gt87

Wow, that's 35 neighborhoods. I don't think I could even name that many. Anybody else?

I can for the ones I've been to but not 5:

NYC:
Little Italy
Soho
Bushwick
Midtown
Greenwich Village

LA:
Silverlake
Venice Beach
Santa Monica

Chicago:
Wicker Park
Bucktown
Logan Square
Loop
Streeterville

Philly: never been

DC:
Morgan Adams
Georgetown
Columbia Heights
DuPont circle

SF:
Russian Hill
Chinatown
Downtown
I can't remember the name but where coit tower is

Miami:
Coconut grove
Miami beach
Brickell
Wynwood
Midtown

Ok so not 5 for all of them and I've seen plenty of neighborhoods just can't remember their names.

[Yeadon718]

NYC:
Bed-Stuy (Brooklyn)
Fordham (Bronx)
Melrose (Bronx)
Flatbush (Brooklyn)
Bushwick (Brooklyn)

DC:
Columbia Heights
Adams Morgan
Silver Spring (MD)
Takoma Park (MD)

Philly:
Center City
Passyunk (Cheesesteak area)
Rittenhouse Sq.
North Philly (around Broad and Erie)
Kensington

Baltimore:
Fells Point
Federal Hill
Downtown
Highlandtown
Station North

[boulevardofdef]

New York:
Greenwich Village
East Village
Upper East Side
Upper West Side
Hell's Kitchen
(No outer boroughs because I'm so uncool that I still believe Manhattan has all the best stuff)

Chicago:
Lincoln Park
River North
Bucktown
Wicker Park
Gold Coast

Los Angeles:
Santa Monica
West Hollywood
Venice
Los Feliz
Beverly Hills

DC:
Georgetown
Logan Circle
Dupont Circle
Downtown
Alexandria (if I can go outside the city limits on LA and Miami, I can do this, too)

I don't know the other cities well enough to comment. Even though I've been to Miami probably 10 times, I couldn't name five neighborhoods I really like -- poor Miami. Do love Miami Beach and Coconut Grove, though.

The moral of this story is apparently that I love rich neighborhoods. I do like grittier places, honest -- but not as much as the neighborhoods I mentioned here.

[qworldorder]

NYC:
Inwood
Chelsea
Upper West Side
East Village
Williamsburg

Philly:
Fishtown
University City
E Passyunk
Fairmount
Rittenhouse Square

Miami:
Miami Beach
Brickell
Coconut Grove
Wynwood
Aventura

[citylove101]

Here are my faves in four of the seven cities. Don't know enough about Miami, LA, and Philly to get to five favorites:

NYC:
Upper West Side
Battery Park City
Hudson Heights
Harlem
Ft. Greene

Chicago:
South Loop
Hyde Park
South Kenwood
West Loop
Rogers Park (Right by the lake. Woo hoo!)

San Francisco:
Inner Sunset
Duboce Triangle
The Haight
Hayes Valley
China Basin

DC:
Adams Morgan
Capitol Hill
U Street District
West End
Columbia Heights

[NomadHere]

I think we should include Google Maps on this as well so people can learn of new places.

[boulevardofdef]

Mine again, with street views linked (not that I picked a bunch of esoteric neighborhoods):

New York:
Greenwich Village
East Village
Upper East Side
Upper West Side
Hell's Kitchen

Chicago:
Lincoln Park
River North
Bucktown
Wicker Park
Gold Coast

Los Angeles:
Santa Monica
West Hollywood
Venice
Los Feliz
Beverly Hills

DC:
Georgetown
Logan Circle
Dupont Circle
Downtown
Alexandria

Not my finest curatorial effort, but cut me some slack, I had to get 20 of them.