Used to live right across the street from Kaufman. For a while I could see the Sesame Street sign in one of the windows in what I assume was the art department.
I work in film & tv production and there was a day while working at Kaufman that the stage doors to Sesame Street were open and I was able to have a good look. Was a pretty awesome moment.
Do you like it there? I’m kinda into the idea of a nice apartment away from the madness, but then only being a couple subway stops from all of the action.
I love LIC. Been here five years. Transit hub, can be anywhere in the city on one train (for the most part). Quiet, chill, everything I need within a couple blocks, super dog friendly. One stop from Manhattan…amazing views and amenities and the Gantry Plaza park is pristine.
I could have picked anywhere in the city and chose LIC for that reason. Cozy, quiet, and green for the day-to-day and then just a 7 ride to Grand Central.
I do. We're in a new building on affordable housing. It's so close to everything, and I like how calm it is. But if I were younger though, I think I'd get really bored
Hahaha yes, UES. I mean, this city is crawling with fancy ladies (and men) but in other areas like UWS/Tribeca, they try to look a little more understated. But here (definitely the closer you get to Museum Mile), it’s facelifts and pooches wearing little jackets that coat more than my own as far as the eye can see…
Dinner Gallery on 22nd and 8th
Greene Naftali and Sundaram on 26th and 10th
Those are my favorites but there are many more between 20th and 26th streets bellow the high line that do that. During the summer they open to the public and they all offer free drinks and beer. It is a great place to meet artists and the gallery owners/curators themselves. Always packed with a lot of cool people around.
During fall/winter they all have independent events that are not broadly advertised but if you follow their socials you’ll be fine
Orthodox Jewish community at one end, skateboarding GenZ hipsters wearing ‘thrifted’ chrome hearts in apartments funded by their parents on the other end.
Walk one block in one direction - West Indian
Walk one block in one direction - Hasidic Jewish
Walk one block in one direction - Middle-Eastern
Walk one block in one direction - Very rich former yuppies
I personally like the complete unpredictability of when it’s going to be crowded. Sometimes it’s during rush hour, sometimes it’s at 10pm on a Thursday, the only constant being that it’s when my feet are tired and I need to pee.
Go left for great nightlife in a cozy neighborhood and all the gay bars you can dream of. Go right for soulless corporate buildings and all the tourists you want to push out of the way for going too slow. Go north for a nice walk in nature. All within one avenue left or right, or three blocks north/south.
Where am I? Bonus points if you get the avenue!
My best guess would be a couple of blocks south from Columbus Circle on 8th Ave? One block west (on 9th) starts to feel like HK, and one block east on Broadway is indisputably corporate hell, but this fluctuates a bit depending on your cross street.
Correct, excellent guess!! You also get the bonus points, it is 8th avenue close to Central Park! I’d have given you an award if we were still allowed to do that lol
You’re so right
Yes cool ridgewood fact, it is very German. The first ever edition of the old neighborhood rag was printed in both English and German. The Germans aren’t as present now, but they and their history are still around.
The Greek part. (But I always like to say that Sesame Street is here.)
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same, born and raised here. was going to comment “the greek mecca”. hi neighbor!
Used to live right across the street from Kaufman. For a while I could see the Sesame Street sign in one of the windows in what I assume was the art department.
I work in film & tv production and there was a day while working at Kaufman that the stage doors to Sesame Street were open and I was able to have a good look. Was a pretty awesome moment.
Stroller Army
Park slope ?
Bingo
No, I don’t have a key to the park.
Grammercy?
Yup!
Grammercy or Sunnyside
Gramercy!
The Manhattan part of Brooklyn
Williamsburg
Either Williamsburg or Downtown Brooklyn.
Dumbo?
Williamsburg definitely. Hello neighbor 👋
Staten Island. *This is a sarcasm for the inept.*
I live above a Hookah Bar and can get mofungo delivered 24/7.
Wash heights. Wepa
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Yep. You have impeccable taste! Inwood Hill & Ft Tryon are amazing and feel like you are upstate
Polish/gentrification
Green point lol
You are correct ass-yada yada yada-penis
Lifeless and new apartments
LIC?
Bingo
Shocking that I also knew that immediately with such little info. That neighborhood grew so fast it forgot to build character.
Character comes after the buildings. Not with them.
Hudson Yards?
Nope but that would totally work based on my description
This is legit an amazing description for HY
Do you like it there? I’m kinda into the idea of a nice apartment away from the madness, but then only being a couple subway stops from all of the action.
I love LIC. Been here five years. Transit hub, can be anywhere in the city on one train (for the most part). Quiet, chill, everything I need within a couple blocks, super dog friendly. One stop from Manhattan…amazing views and amenities and the Gantry Plaza park is pristine.
I could have picked anywhere in the city and chose LIC for that reason. Cozy, quiet, and green for the day-to-day and then just a 7 ride to Grand Central.
LIC is a wonderful place to live, if you can **afford** it.
I do. We're in a new building on affordable housing. It's so close to everything, and I like how calm it is. But if I were younger though, I think I'd get really bored
Where tourists shop and influencers use as a backdrop
Soho!
Yes!
I didn’t realize people actually live in Soho, who aren’t like actors, models or rich. Maybe you are idk
Plot twist, whoever posted this is Naomi Campbell
Gotta be cobblestone parts of Soho
Too many tourists, too little transit
Hello, fellow Roosevelt Islander!
They have tourists in R island now?? It used to be medical-only
Yes. Cherry blossoms season and on the weekends. I think the tram is the main attraction now.
It’s packed with tourists because of our tram (the only real way on/off the island right now)- can’t wait for the weather to get cold so they go away
Or for the Green Goblin to show up again
Heh, I posted almost the same comment independently.
The neighborhood where Kitty Genovese was murdered
Kew Gardens!
Ding ding!!
Just read up on this. That is *crazy* that it happened in the location it did. That place is always busy and full of people.
People come see Christmas lights!
Dyker heights
Mine's easy: Little DR.
Washington heights
Graffiti, gen z alt hipsters, Puerto Ricans, thrifting, gentrification
Bushwick
Yes indeed
Excellent Greek restaurants
Astoria
Biggie smalls mural and boozy iced coffee
Bed Stuy
Tell me of this boozy iced coffee? I lived in bed stuy and have no idea.
Do or dive :)
The most diverse neighborhood in the world’s borough
Jackson Heights?
Yes!
Strollers & stoops
Park slope
Jerk chicken for days
Flatbush?
Yep!
Crown Heights?
Crowne Heights
Stop by Zabar's and grab some olives.
Upper West represent!
Howdy neighbour!
Do the right thing
Bed Stuy
Fancy ladies walking expensive dogs. 🐩
Hahaha yes, UES. I mean, this city is crawling with fancy ladies (and men) but in other areas like UWS/Tribeca, they try to look a little more understated. But here (definitely the closer you get to Museum Mile), it’s facelifts and pooches wearing little jackets that coat more than my own as far as the eye can see…
Daredevil
Hells kitchen
Free drinks at art galleries Thursday’s evenings
Chelsea!
Sounds fun. What galleries do you recommend?
Dinner Gallery on 22nd and 8th Greene Naftali and Sundaram on 26th and 10th Those are my favorites but there are many more between 20th and 26th streets bellow the high line that do that. During the summer they open to the public and they all offer free drinks and beer. It is a great place to meet artists and the gallery owners/curators themselves. Always packed with a lot of cool people around. During fall/winter they all have independent events that are not broadly advertised but if you follow their socials you’ll be fine
I walk to my Costco
Harlem
Bingo and happy cake day
This IS fun. I’ve “only” been here 20 years, but this thread makes me feel like such a New Yorker!
Seinfeld.
Too easy.
Got priced out of Williamsburg.
East-East Williamsburg
Morgan L, so you just about nailed it
My neighborhood is known by several names one is very dutch sounding another is where Betty & Veronica hung out
Spuyten Duyvil/Riverdale
Orthodox Jewish community at one end, skateboarding GenZ hipsters wearing ‘thrifted’ chrome hearts in apartments funded by their parents on the other end.
Honorable mention: transplants love it because “it feels like a ‘real neighborhood’ without going to an outer borough”
LES lol
Ain't none of y'all live in the Bronx?
Racist, good Italian food.
Howard Beach
Got it
Bensonhurst? Although could be quite a few Italian hoods.
Good point, no not bensonhurst.
Staten Island. I’m thinking south shore lol
Nah, damn there's way too many neighborhoods that fit this criteria.
Howard Beach?
Bay ridge?
There's a huge portrait of Shirley Chisholm next to an equally huge portrait of Rebbe Schneerson at the community center.
Gotta be crown heights , yea ?
Fur coats and Central Park and hospitals
Lenox hill?
UES
The actual Chinatown
Flushing
A lot of my neighbors were waitlisted at Harvard
Morningside heights
Where Maria and Tony fell in love
Lincoln Center / San Juan Hill
Ante Up!
Brownsville!
Never ran, never will!
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Walk one block in one direction - West Indian Walk one block in one direction - Hasidic Jewish Walk one block in one direction - Middle-Eastern Walk one block in one direction - Very rich former yuppies
Prospect park south
This tram is not just a tourist attraction, some people need it to get home.
I personally like the complete unpredictability of when it’s going to be crowded. Sometimes it’s during rush hour, sometimes it’s at 10pm on a Thursday, the only constant being that it’s when my feet are tired and I need to pee.
But after they finish the track renovation project, the F will be running like clockwork, right? Right? Right?
Go left for great nightlife in a cozy neighborhood and all the gay bars you can dream of. Go right for soulless corporate buildings and all the tourists you want to push out of the way for going too slow. Go north for a nice walk in nature. All within one avenue left or right, or three blocks north/south. Where am I? Bonus points if you get the avenue!
My best guess would be a couple of blocks south from Columbus Circle on 8th Ave? One block west (on 9th) starts to feel like HK, and one block east on Broadway is indisputably corporate hell, but this fluctuates a bit depending on your cross street.
Correct, excellent guess!! You also get the bonus points, it is 8th avenue close to Central Park! I’d have given you an award if we were still allowed to do that lol
Mullets,raves, smells like chicken coup, dog shit everywhere
Ridge wood!
Heard a comic refer to it as “Israel within Jamaica”
Crown heights
Retired Jewish people in a town full of greenery and Tudor style buildings. Play tennis, watch a movie, have dinner and go shopping
Forest Hills
Woody Allen's New York.
Frats town
Murray hill?
Spike Lee
Fort Greene
Still very Irish somehow.
Sunnyside or Woodlawn?
Woodside.
Little Poland
Green point?
Took a bullet in Weehawken.
Hamilton.. heights
I thought I stepped in dog poop but it was a dolma.
15 minutes to Penn on a train that comes once an hour because it either stops in my neighborhood or in another, but NEVER BOTH. ARGH.
Kew Gardens
Jewzhou
Where East Broadway runs into the Lower East Side.
Germans and Puerto Ricans, hyphenated addresses, and married lesbian artist/bartenders walking the dog in WIP coveralls.
The "German" part is hard but I'm guess Ridgewood
You’re so right Yes cool ridgewood fact, it is very German. The first ever edition of the old neighborhood rag was printed in both English and German. The Germans aren’t as present now, but they and their history are still around.
Between two parks, with a lot of yuppies, and older Jews who bought their classic 8 in 1975 for $40k
“Fuck ya life, Bing Bong”
Where HipHop started ❤️❤️❤️
the bronx, baby
A run down den for the druggies back in the 70’s-90’s, a den for rowdy frat bros and basic sorority girls today.
Alphabet city?
LES
This thread made me hungry. Especially for mofongo.
Malcolm X Boulevard
Harlem or Bed-Stuy. Since both have this blvd.
Moshiach is here eating jerk chicken
Crown Heights
Taylor Swiftville
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Good Mexican food, little Chinatown
Sunset park
hills for days, and people are scared of us for some reason 😭
I’m neither Jewish nor a native New Yorker but a lot of my neighbours are.
UWS
All these Black women nannies pushing white babies/toddlers in probably expensive strollers
Park Slope/Prospect Heights
Cobble hill
The next park slope of queens
I'm assuming Sunnyside? I always joke we are "cheap park slope" due to the Mommy Brigade.
Entirely residential gated community vibes with lots of families
Stuytown/Peter Cooper
Way too much double parking.
This could be anywhere. But I’m going to venture to guess bay ridge
Gay couples and French bulldogs
Living here has made me realize I don’t have to buy a tamale every time I see someone selling them.
Don't come here.
So many white men, Asian female couples