Uptown Manhattan — history on every block.

Downtown energy, late nights, and plenty of storefronts.

Tight streets, big nightlife — and plenty of look-alike storefronts.

Galleries, the High Line, and steady demand.

A residential stretch between Central Park and Riverside Park, anchored by the brownstone blocks and pre-war buildings along Broadway, Amsterdam, and Columbus Avenues.

A hilly Upper Manhattan neighborhood between the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, known for its Dominican community and the bustling commercial spine of St. Nicholas Avenue and 181st Street.

A dense Lower Manhattan enclave of street markets, restaurants, and shops centered on Canal, Mott, and Bowery Streets.

Also known as El Barrio, this Upper Manhattan neighborhood north of the Upper East Side runs along Lexington and Third Avenues and 116th Street with a strong Puerto Rican and Latino heritage.

A quiet, upscale Lower Manhattan loft district of cobblestoned blocks, cast-iron warehouses, and Hudson River Park, where polish isn't proof of a license.

A packed cast-iron historic shopping district along Broadway, Spring, and Prince Streets, thick with tourists and look-alike storefronts.

A young-professional Midtown East neighborhood of Third Avenue bars, the Curry Hill restaurant row on Lexington, Grand Central commuter density, and quiet brownstone side streets.

A genteel, historic district around the private key-only Gramercy Park, with landmarked townhouses, Irving Place, the Union Square edge, and Baruch College nearby.

Manhattan's green northern tip, home to the island's last natural forest at Inwood Hill Park, with a strong Dominican community along the Dyckman Street and Broadway corridors and the A and 1 trains.

A historic West Harlem neighborhood of landmarked rowhouses and the Sugar Hill enclave, home to the City College of New York and Hamilton Grange, with its commercial life along Broadway and the 1 train.

The quiet, residential eastern edge of the Upper East Side, east of Third Avenue — pre-war apartment houses and walk-ups, Carl Schurz Park and Gracie Mansion on the river, the new Second Avenue Q line, the 86th Street shopping strip, and the lingering traces of its old German, Hungarian, and Czech heart.

A transitional waterfront pocket on the Lower East Side and Chinatown edge under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, where old-law tenements and public housing sit beside new glass towers and a diverse Chinese and Latino community lines East Broadway and the side streets.

A small, fashionable district North of Little Italy, with boutique-dense blocks of Mulberry, Mott, and Elizabeth Streets, café tables, and Old St. Patrick's between SoHo and the Bowery.

Lower Manhattan's financial core — Wall Street, the Stock Exchange, and historic Stone Street, with a tourist crush near the Charging Bull, the Battery Park waterfront, and a fast-growing residential population among the towers.

A narrow, self-contained residential island in the East River reached by the iconic aerial tram, the F train, or the single bridge to Queens, home to Cornell Tech, Main Street, and FDR Four Freedoms Park.

A geographic oddity that's legally part of Manhattan but physically attached to the Bronx mainland north of the Harlem River Ship Canal, running along Broadway near Kingsbridge with the 1 train and Metro-North.

A small, landmarked cast-iron loft district North of Houston, between Greenwich Village and the East Village, with boutiques, galleries, and grand architecture along Bond Street, Lafayette, and Great Jones near the Astor Place edge.

Manhattan's shrinking historic Italian enclave around Mulberry Street, home to the Feast of San Gennaro and tourist-heavy restaurant rows, blending into Nolita and Chinatown between Canal and Broome Streets.

The affluent, culture-heavy lower corner of the Upper West Side around Lincoln Center, Juilliard, and Columbus Circle, with high-rise co-ops and polished storefronts along Broadway, Columbus, and Amsterdam.

Manhattan's brand-new far-West-Side mega-development of glass office and residential towers, the Vessel, the Shed, luxury retail, and the High Line's northern end at the 7 train terminus.

North Brooklyn's design-forward core, with one of the city's densest clusters of licensed shops.

Loud, creative, and full of licensed storefronts along the L.

Brownstone Brooklyn — calmer streets, careful shoppers.

Historic, central, and increasingly well-served by licensed shops.

A boardwalk-side enclave known as 'Little Odessa,' where Russian and Eastern European groceries, bakeries, and restaurants line Brighton Beach Avenue under the elevated Q train.

A waterfront neighborhood built around its namesake bay, with seafood spots, fishing piers, and the Emmons Avenue promenade meeting busy Sheepshead Bay Road.

Brooklyn's iconic beachfront amusement district, home to the Cyclone, the Wonder Wheel, Nathan's Famous, and the Riegelmann Boardwalk along Surf Avenue.

One of Brooklyn's original colonial towns, now a residential South Brooklyn neighborhood centered on McDonald Avenue and the shops along Avenue U.

A historically Italian-American neighborhood with a growing Chinese community, anchored by the family-owned shops of 18th Avenue and the elevated stretch of 86th Street.

A leafy southwestern neighborhood with views of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, a busy Third Avenue restaurant row, and the 86th Street shopping corridor.

A quiet waterfront residential peninsula in southeast Brooklyn, ringed by Jamaica Bay inlets and anchored by the shops along Avenue U.

A family-oriented south Brooklyn neighborhood built around the borough's largest park, with low-rise blocks off Avenue U and Flatbush Avenue.

A diverse, hilly waterfront neighborhood known for its namesake park, Brooklyn's Chinatown along Eighth Avenue, and the Industry City complex.

A dense, vibrant central Brooklyn neighborhood with Caribbean roots, lined by the bustling shops of Flatbush Avenue south of Prospect Park.

A historic central Brooklyn neighborhood of grand row houses and brownstones, centered on the tree-lined Eastern Parkway and the Franklin Avenue corridor.

Brooklyn's northernmost neighborhood, a Polish-rooted waterfront enclave of low-rise rowhouses along Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street.

A historic district of brownstone-lined streets around Fort Greene Park, anchored by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and DeKalb Avenue.

A leafy Italian-American enclave known for deep front gardens and the brownstone-lined Court Street and Smith Street corridors.

A compact, tree-lined neighborhood between Vanderbilt Avenue and Washington Avenue, edged by Barclays Center and Eastern Parkway.

A quiet, leafy brownstone enclave around Cobble Hill Park, with the boutiques of Court Street and the restaurant row of Smith Street.

A fast-changing, post-industrial neighborhood along the Gowanus Canal, where warehouses turned venues and breweries sit beside new towers and the Third Avenue Whole Foods.

A quiet brownstone neighborhood between Cobble Hill and Fort Greene, known for the boutiques and restaurants of Smith Street and the antique dealers and Middle Eastern shops of Atlantic Avenue.

A leafy historic district of grand Clinton Avenue mansions and brownstones built around the Pratt Institute campus, with restaurants and shops along Myrtle Avenue and Fulton Street.

A cut-off waterfront peninsula with no subway — cobblestone streets, the big-box anchors and old Fairway building, Valentino Pier's Statue of Liberty view, a maker-and-artist scene, and the summer ball-field food, all reached only by bus, ferry, bike, or car.

A quiet, single-family South Brooklyn neighborhood with deep Italian-American roots, famous for its over-the-top December Christmas-lights blocks and the Dyker Beach golf course, tucked between Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst.

A densely residential South Brooklyn neighborhood home to one of the largest Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities anywhere, with the 13th Avenue shopping corridor at the center of daily life and many businesses closed from Friday evening through Saturday for Shabbos.

A diverse, tree-lined central Brooklyn neighborhood anchored by Brooklyn College and the busy Avenue J and Kings Highway shopping strips, where Orthodox Jewish, Pakistani, and many other communities shop side by side.

A spread-out, deeply Caribbean-American neighborhood at the far southeast edge of Brooklyn, where the L train ends at Rockaway Parkway and streets of one- and two-family homes run down to Canarsie Pier on Jamaica Bay.

A dense, remarkably diverse central-Brooklyn neighborhood south of Prospect Park, where 'Little Bangladesh' lines McDonald Avenue under the elevated F train and the shops of Church Avenue and Coney Island Avenue serve a dozen communities.

A brownstone-and-limestone community on Prospect Park's eastern edge, with deep Caribbean-American roots, the landmarked Lefferts Manor blocks, and the Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenue corridors near the B, Q, and S trains.

A leafy Victorian Flatbush enclave of grand freestanding wooden houses and deeply diverse blocks, anchored by the cafe-and-restaurant strip of Cortelyou Road and the Coney Island Avenue corridor on the B and Q line.

A small, affluent residential enclave at Brooklyn's southern tip, east of Brighton Beach, with large single-family homes, quiet streets, a near-private beach feel, and Kingsborough Community College out at the peninsula's end.

A large, diverse, working-class neighborhood at Brooklyn's far eastern edge, knit together by the Broadway Junction transit hub (A/C/J/Z/L) and the long Atlantic, Fulton, and Pitkin Avenue corridors, and reshaped by recent rezoning and new development.

Queens' most walkable neighborhood — diverse, busy, and growing its menu.

Towers, waterfront, and a fast-growing set of licensed shops.

A bustling north-central Queens commercial hub and one of the city's largest Asian communities, centered on the busy intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue.

A diverse, garden-apartment historic district between Northern Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue, known for its South Asian and Latin American shops along 74th Street and 37th Avenue.

A leafy central Queens neighborhood known for its Tudor-style Forest Hills Gardens and the shops and restaurants lining Austin Street and Queens Boulevard.

A historic neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border known for its rows of yellow-brick houses and the commercial strip along Myrtle Avenue and Fresh Pond Road.

A walkable western Queens neighborhood centered on Queens Boulevard and the planned community of Sunnyside Gardens, with shops along Greenpoint and Skillman Avenues.

A densely populated and highly diverse central Queens neighborhood anchored by the shopping along Broadway, Grand Avenue, and Queens Boulevard.

A working-class western Queens neighborhood under the elevated 7 train, known for its Irish pubs and Filipino businesses along Roosevelt Avenue and 61st Street.

A busy, big-box central Queens neighborhood along Queens Boulevard, anchored by the Rego Center mall, large-format stores, and the older shopping strip on 63rd Drive serving a large Bukharian community.

A leafy, suburban-feeling neighborhood in northeast Queens, known for the bars and restaurants of its Bell Boulevard nightlife strip, the LIRR station, and the Bay Terrace shopping area near the water.

A dense, heavily Latino Queens neighborhood built around the Roosevelt Avenue corridor under the elevated 7 train, the food carts of Corona Plaza, and the green edge of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park.

A historic, Victorian-housed Queens neighborhood whose Liberty Avenue corridor is the heart of 'Little Guyana,' lined with Indo-Caribbean roti shops, sari and puja stores, and a large Punjabi Sikh community.

A leafy, planned garden neighborhood of Tudor-style apartment houses at the edge of Forest Park, home to the Queens courthouse and civic district and the busy LIRR and E/F hub at Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike.

A dense, diverse southwestern Queens neighborhood of row houses built along the long Cross Bay Boulevard retail spine, under the elevated A train near Aqueduct Racetrack and the approaches to JFK.

A quiet, car-dependent corner of northeast Queens with single-family blocks behind tidy lawns, an Italian, Greek, and East Asian mix, the Whitestone Bridge overhead, and Francis Lewis Park on the East River — and no subway, so shops are a drive away.

An insular, Italian-American waterfront community in southwest Queens near JFK, with the canals and stilted blocks of Hamilton Beach, Spring Creek Park on the marsh, the Cross Bay Boulevard retail spine, and the A train at its edge.

A quiet, transit-light working- and middle-class pocket of central Queens with Polish and Italian-American roots, anchored by the Grand Avenue shops and the industrial banks of Newtown Creek.

A calm, low-density residential neighborhood in central Queens built around Juniper Valley Park and the vast All Faiths cemeteries, with single-family homes and the Metropolitan Avenue shops at the quiet end of the M line.

A quiet, German- and Italian-rooted residential pocket of central Queens with no subway of its own, anchored by the family-run shops along Myrtle Avenue and The Shops at Atlas Park, with Forest Park along its northern edge.

A working-class, diverse, heavily Latino neighborhood strung along Jamaica Avenue under the elevated J and Z trains, with blocks of historic frame houses and Forest Park on its northern edge.

The diverse oceanfront community at the eastern end of the Rockaway peninsula, out where the A train terminates at Mott Avenue, with a tight-knit Caribbean, Black, and Orthodox Jewish mix, the beach blocks along the Atlantic, and the quiet waterfront of nearby Bayswater on Jamaica Bay.

The surf-and-boardwalk stretch of the Rockaway peninsula around Beach 90th to 116th, home to New York City's legal surfing beach, the boardwalk and beach concessions, a tight year-round beach-town community, and the Beach 116th Street shopping strip — served by the A train, the Rockaway Park S shuttle, and the seasonal NYC Ferry.

A quiet, leafy, planned garden-apartment community in northeast Queens, framed by the Long Island Expressway and the Horace Harding corridor and bordering St. John's University, with curving tree-lined streets, no subway, and a car-and-bus rhythm all its own.

A spread-out, single-family residential neighborhood in southeast Queens with a large Caribbean and South Asian community, its commercial life stretched along Jamaica Avenue, Hillside Avenue, and Springfield Boulevard and anchored by the Queens Village LIRR station.

An out-of-the-way northern Queens peninsula on the East River, mixing the big-box stores and warehouses of the College Point Corporate Park with quiet residential blocks, far from the subway near LaGuardia and Flushing.

An affluent, leafy far-northeast Queens neighborhood at the Nassau border, home to the historic Douglas Manor enclave, the LIRR station, and quiet suburban streets sloping down toward Little Neck Bay.

A leafy, hilly residential enclave in the northwest Bronx running along Riverdale Avenue above the Hudson River, with Van Cortlandt Park to its east.

A dense, bustling commercial hub of the west Bronx centered on the Fordham Road shopping strip, home to Fordham University's Rose Hill campus and the New York Botanical Garden.

A historic South Bronx neighborhood of cast-iron storefronts and converted warehouses, anchored by the East 138th Street corridor and the Bruckner Boulevard arts district.

A settled, residential neighborhood at the northeast tip of the Bronx, wrapped around Pelham Bay Park — the city's largest park — with its commercial life along Westchester Avenue near the 6 train's last stop.

A residential South Bronx peninsula ringed by the Bronx River and the East River, with Soundview Park at its tip and its retail along Story, Lafayette, and Westchester Avenues near the 6 line.

A low-rise, car-dependent waterfront peninsula in the southeast Bronx, ringed by marinas and boat clubs under the Throgs Neck Bridge, with thin, spread-out retail along East Tremont Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard.

A tight, family-run Italian-American and Albanian-American enclave of low-rise residential streets, strung along the bakeries and trattorias of Morris Park Avenue beside the Einstein and Jacobi medical campus.

A tiny nautical village at the far eastern edge of the Bronx, barely a mile and a half of seafood restaurants, marinas, and antique shops strung along City Island Avenue and reached by a single bridge.

The Bronx's real Little Italy, a celebrated food-destination main street where Arthur Avenue's bakeries, pork stores, cheese shops, and the 1940 Arthur Avenue Retail Market draw visitors from across the region.

A self-contained 1940s Metropolitan Life development of brick towers in the east-central Bronx, laid out around the Metropolitan Oval and the Hugh Grant Circle hub, with a diverse Bangladeshi, Latino, and Black community along Westchester and Metropolitan Avenues.

A busy, hilly shopping district in the northwest Bronx near the Harlem River, built along the Broadway corridor under the 1 train, in the shadow of the old Kingsbridge Armory and a short hop from Riverdale and Van Cortlandt Park.

A South Bronx neighborhood built around The Hub, the busiest discount-shopping district in the borough where East 149th Street meets Third, Willis, and Melrose Avenues, with deep Puerto Rican and Latino roots and the 2 and 5 trains.

A hilly west-Bronx neighborhood rising from the Harlem River up steep step-streets toward the Grand Concourse, named for the High Bridge — New York's oldest standing bridge — next to Yankee Stadium, with a Latino and Black community and the 4, B, and D trains.

A hilly, densely residential pocket on the Bronx's high ground, built around Williamsbridge Oval and Montefiore Medical Center, with a deeply mixed Dominican, Irish, Bangladeshi, and West African community along Bainbridge and Webster Avenues.

The northernmost neighborhood in the Bronx, on the Westchester and Mount Vernon line, with a strong Jamaican and Caribbean community along the West Indian bakeries and shops of White Plains Road and the 2 train's end-of-the-line terminus at 241st Street.

Staten Island's civic and transit gateway on the borough's northeast tip, built around the St. George Ferry Terminal and the Bay Street and Richmond Terrace waterfront.

The southernmost neighborhood in all of New York City — a quiet Victorian shore town at the end of the Staten Island Railway, anchored by Conference House Park and the Main Street and Hylan Boulevard corridors near the bay.

A south-shore Staten Island neighborhood built around Great Kills Harbor and its marinas, with the Gateway-run Great Kills Park along the shore and most of its retail on the Hylan Boulevard corridor.

A settled, suburban mid-island Staten Island neighborhood of single-family blocks whose commercial life runs down the New Dorp Lane main-street strip, near the Staten Island Railway station, Miller Field, and the South Beach shoreline.

A dense, diverse, walkable North Shore Staten Island neighborhood just below the St. George ferry terminal, built around historic Tappen Park, the Bay Street commercial corridor, and the redeveloped waterfront where the Navy's old Homeport once stood.

One of Staten Island's oldest commercial centers, a historic North Shore neighborhood built around the Port Richmond Avenue 'strip' — a long, walkable corridor of century-old storefronts, taquerias and Mexican groceries from a fast-growing Latino community, and discount shops, with the Bayonne Bridge rising at the foot of the avenue over the Kill Van Kull.

A North Shore Staten Island neighborhood between St. George and the cemeteries, mixing the Forest Avenue shopping corridor with quiet residential blocks of older homes, and home to the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden out on the Kill Van Kull waterfront.

A dense, diverse, walkable North Shore Staten Island neighborhood just south of the St. George ferry terminal, where Victory Boulevard's Sri Lankan, West African, and Latino storefronts climb the hill and Bay Street runs the waterfront, anchored by Tompkinsville Park and its own Staten Island Railway stop.

A car-dependent, suburban mid-island Staten Island district built around the Staten Island Mall and the big-box plazas of the Richmond Avenue corridor, with the wooded Staten Island Greenbelt wrapping its western and southern edges.

A car-dependent South Shore Staten Island neighborhood of single-family homes with a tight-knit Italian-American community, built around the Eltingville Transit Center park-and-ride and the long Amboy Road and Richmond Avenue corridors.

A quiet, leafy mid-island Staten Island neighborhood with deep temperance-movement roots — once the community of Prohibition Park — built around Westerleigh Park and blocks of single-family Victorian and colonial homes, near Willowbrook and the College of Staten Island.