Wealthiest and poorest parts of NYC (New York, Mount Vernon: houses, neighborhoods, income)

[AngusHsu]

What is the wealthiest neighborhood in NYC city proper? Poorest neighborhood in NYC is South Bronx?

What is the wealthiest area of suburban NYC, Briarcliff Manor? Poorest suburb?

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by AngusHsu

What is the wealthiest neighborhood in NYC? Poorest is South Bronx?

What is the wealthiest area of suburban NYC, Briarcliff Manor? Poorest?

NYC - Upper East Side is wealthiest, poorest is South Bronx.
Suburbs - Gold Coast of Nassau County, poorest good question - maybe some distressed parts of Mount Vernon, Westchester County.

[Simtropico]

UES, Brownsville?
Rye NY?

[bluedog2]

I think Scarsdale is the wealthiest suburb….median household income is over $200,000.Poorest might be East Orange,NJ.

Briarcliff Manor is pretty wealthy but it is probably not even in the top 10.

[AngusHsu]

Originally Posted by bluedog2

I think Scarsdale is the wealthiest suburb….median household income is over $200,000.Poorest might be East Orange,NJ.

I google street viewed East Orange. It looks middle class.

[bluedog2]

Originally Posted by AngusHsu

I google street viewed East Orange. It looks middle class.

I believe the median household income is around $40,000,which is pretty low for the NYC suburbs.As I said,might be the lowest,but not sure.Even The Bronx is around $ 35,000.Someone else mentioned Mt Vernon but I think the median there is over $50,000.If you want to consider Newark a suburb,which it is I guess, then it is definitely the poorest with a median Household income around $25,000.

[908Boi]

Originally Posted by AngusHsu

I google street viewed East Orange. It looks middle class.

haha lmao


If we included Monmouth County NJ as part of the Tri state, Asbury Park, NJ is the poorest NYC suburb

[MemoryMaker]

Wealthiest parts of NYC:
- **Almost all of Manhattan south of 110th street
- Malba of Queens
- Riverdale/Fieldston of the Bronx
- Forest Hills of Queens
- Jamaica Estates of Queens
- Douglaston of Queens
- Belle Harbor/Rockaway Park of Queens

Poorest parts of NYC:
- South Bronx (Mott Haven, Morrisania, Hunts Point, Tremont, Port Morris)
- Brownsville/East New York of Brooklyn
- Far Rockaway of Queens
- Port Richmond/New Brighton on Staten Island
- Washington Heights/Inwood of Upper Manhattan

Wealthiest suburbs of NYC:
- North Shore/Gold Coast of Long Island (Old Westbury, Brookville, Manhasset, Sands Point, Lloyd Harbor, Kings Point, Muttontown, Roslyn, East Hills, etc)
- Southwestern Connecticut areas like Greenwich, New Canaan, Darien, Wilton
- Short Hills/Milburn, NJ
- Scarsdale, NY of Westchester County
- Englewood Cliffs/Alpine, NJ
- Briarcliff Manor of Westchester County
- Larchmont of Westchester County

Poorest suburbs of NYC:
- Newark/Irvington/East Orange, NJ
- Elizabeth, NJ
- Paterson, NJ
- Newburgh of Upstate NY
- Bridgeport, CT
- Communipaw/Bergen-Lafayette/Greenville of Jersey City, NJ
- Asbury Park, NJ
- New Haven, CT

Notes:
* Staten Island has the highest median household income of the 5 boroughs, but is more consistently middle class/upper middle class than "rich".
* Manhattan has the highest per capita income.
* Bronx has the lowest median household income and lowest per capita income of the 5 boroughs.
* Many of the poorer suburbs are technically "satellite cities".
* Don't get "income" confused with "wealth".

[BrownstoneNY]

Originally Posted by AngusHsu

I google street viewed East Orange. It looks middle class.

It's not. East Orange is quite dire. Looks may be deceiving as East Orange was very wealthy about 50-60 years ago, so it has a lot of mansions and large houses that are mostly falling into ruin. Nearby Irvington, NJ is more impoverished, though. Spring Valley, NY is also arguable. Newburgh, NY could count, too, though it's beyond the edge of what I'd consider a suburb. Obviously excluding Newark, Passaic, Paterson, Elizabeth, etc., as those are cities in their own right.

Brownsville is the poorest neighborhood of NYC, though East New York, Ocean Hill, East Flatbush and a bunch of Bronx neighborhoods come close.

[nybbler]

Union City, NJ is actually poorer than E.O. or Irvington. Irvington wins for "most likely to get shot for just passing through" however.