Which part/side of New York is like East London (UK)? (rich, suburbs)

[MAX101MAX101]

Is it Manhattan?
Where is suburbs in New York?
Thanks to all that respond

[ilovelondon]

Shoreditch / Bethnal Green / Hackney would correspond to Williamsburg / Park Slope / Bushwick / etc.

[MAX101MAX101]

Originally Posted by ilovelondon

Shoreditch / Bethnal Green / Hackney would correspond to Williamsburg / Park Slope / Bushwick / etc.

Those are not the areas/places I had in mind. I was thinking what Ilford and Romford would correspond to. Do you know?

[MAX101MAX101]

I heard it's New Rochelle

[mraza9]

I would say the LES is most similar to East London - gentrifying but still pockets of grittiness - lots of ethnic minorities (appropriately the LES also has a large visible Bangladeshi population though not at the level that East London does). Rich young hip professional and artsy types residing along side older established immigrant populations who are generally poorer, etc.

Even aesthetically - parts of LES could vaguely pass for London:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7210...thumbfov%3D100

[MAX101MAX101]

Originally Posted by mraza9

I would say the LES is most similar to East London - gentrifying but still pockets of grittiness - lots of ethnic minorities (appropriately the LES also has a large visible Bangladeshi population though not at the level that East London does). Rich young hip professional and artsy types residing along side older established immigrant populations who are generally poorer, etc.

Even aesthetically - parts of LES could vaguely pass for London:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7210...thumbfov%3D100

New Rochelle is closer to what I'm looking for. a Suburb next to New York.

[Brave New World]

Originally Posted by MAX101MAX101

Is it Manhattan?
Where is suburbs in New York?
Thanks to all that respond

The East End of London is vast, it encompasses a lot of very different areas and boroughs including the Canary Wharf Financial District, Royal Docks and ExCel and is linked to the 02 and Greenwich Peninsula. It also includes Stratford, where the Olymics were held in 2012, and where a lot of new cultural buildings at East Bank are being built. Other more bohemian areas include areas such as Brick Lane, Hoxton and Shoreditch.

East End of London - Wikipedia

A lot of the East End has been transformed and has seen major investment in recent years, as has the Thames Gateway/Estauary.

The East End was traditionally the poor and was seen an immigrant area, it also housed London's Docks which were the largest in the world art one time, and as such is compared to the traditional poorer areas of NYC such as Harlem and the Bronx.

The invention of the shipping container, hit the docks hard, and parts of the East End area became an industrial wasteland, until large scale investment saw numerous schemes implimented, such as those I have already mentioned. Today London is once again a growing port region with the expansion of the container docks further up the Thames at Tilbury and the opening of the vast DP World London Gateway Port.