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South Jamaica, Rochdale, and Springfield Gardens have a suburban feel to you? Not tryint to start an argument, just curious.
Cambria Heights, Queens Village, Rosedale and St Albans! Yes those neighborhoods in particular have more of that feel compared to other communities in other boroughs!
Plus south Jamaica is a contradiction to what my point was since the area is a ghetto!
But compared to other black communities in Brooklyn, Manhattan and The Bronx, the black neighborhoods in southeast Queens definitely are more spread out and sprawled.
When I say suburban feel, that’s what I’m talking about communities with barely any buildings and just blocks and blocks of separated single/multi family homes with driveways and front lawns and backyards. That’s exactly what Southeast and Northeast Queens is!
Waaaaait. I do like the UWS and Washington Heights. I don’t know how I omitted them from the list. I wouldn’t mind living on a high floor in the 80’s on Riverside Drive in one of those pre war buildings
Riverside Drive is nice but how's their rat problem at night???
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South Jamaica, Rochdale, and Springfield Gardens have a suburban feel to you? Not tryint to start an argument, just curious.
Man you couldnt wait for that one, huh
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Like when people say Southeast Queens and suburban, nobody is thinking about those areas first. Well definitely not South Jamaica or Rochdale, they both have way too many apartment buildings.
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Like when people say Southeast Queens and suburban, nobody is thinking about those areas first. Well definitely not South Jamaica or Rochdale, they both have way too many apartment buildings.
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Originally Posted by BrooklynJo
Cambria Heights, Queens Village, Rosedale and St Albans! Yes those neighborhoods in particular have more of that feel compared to other communities in other boroughs!
Plus south Jamaica is a contradiction to what my point was since the area is a ghetto!
But compared to other black communities in Brooklyn, Manhattan and The Bronx, the black neighborhoods in southeast Queens definitely are more spread out and sprawled.
When I say suburban feel, that’s what I’m talking about communities with barely any buildings and just blocks and blocks of separated single/multi family homes with driveways and front lawns and backyards. That’s exactly what Southeast and Northeast Queens is!
That's a fair point. Queens Village is denser than San Francisco though, which is why I think a neighborhood like that is different from the actual suburbs.
Springfield Gardens even feels a little too dense to actually be suburban, plus there are homeless shelters there, a lot of pedestrian traffic, and a large chunk of the population using public transit. And people hanging outside of bodegas lol.
I like some of the neighborhoods that have retained some of their original neighborhood feel with their own character.
Most are in the outer boroughs, but I also like in Manhattan:
Morningside Heights - I like that it has more character than the Upper West Side, the academic feel
In Queens:
I really like Forest Hills, because it feels so green and peaceful compared to most NYC neighborhoods
In Brooklyn (my favorite borough):
My favorite is the Kings Highway neighborhood in Midwood/Gravesend/Homecrest - I love the non-gentrified feel, the neighborhood looks similar today as it did 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, etc.
There are still lots of independent retailers (mostly not chain stores), I love the Middle Eastern atmosphere, thanks to the longtime Syrian Jewish community and a lot of Turkish residents and stores in the neighborhoo as well
I also really like Borough Park. Wow, what a unique neighborhood. It doesn't even feel like NYC. Happy chassidic music blares from storefronts, and people are pleasant and low-key/polite, and children walking by speak Yiddish.
In short, I do like a lot of the ethnic neighborhoods in NYC, and I look forward to exploring more of them!
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