"Best" Neighborhood In Manhattan?

There's no undiscovered country, though, anymore. There aren't any more frontier neighborhoods waiting to be unearthed.

But "best," I dunno. I'd probably take the East Village out of the places I know.

ahem ... INWOOD!

(though it's REALLY inconvenient to get to/from)

Then again, I know people in Riverdale, which is like going to Vermont.

I've become convinced that the Upper East Side in and around Lenox Hill really is one of the best neighborhoods, and no longer feel so warmly about the UWS. Also contending, on my map:
- much of the UWS between ~72nd-82nd, and Lincoln Square east to the Park
- the parts of Noho/East Village/Gramercy that are walkable from Union Square with bags of groceries and without dodging too many crowds
- Morningside Heights and a fair chunk of the area between there and the UWS
- Tribeca/West Coast (maybe even post-9/11 BPC?), especially for the more family-oriented
- Carnegie Hill, same
- the Northwest Village (around Arbingdon Sq)
- NoLita

I call it the Lower Upper East Side

I don't have a name for it, but think of it largely as faded from its swinging 70s-early 80s heyday. Notice how there are singles bars here that cater especially to people of a certain age. That said, there are some very nice parts, an increasing number of good restaurants, and it does seem that more younger people are living here.

There's a simillar no-man's land like that in the near-east 30's. Residential, but identity-less.

well, it's not often identified by outsiders, but it is Kips Bay. and it too is starting to pick up. In fact...

There aren't any more frontier neighborhoods waiting to be unearthed.

arguably, there is one in what might become Lower Kips Bay - the far east area in the higher 20s that is largely dominated by (primarily medical) institutions, but is seen as a potential new neighborhood. also, the neighborhood that may be created in the Hudson Yards (North Chelsea?), and lots of residential filling-in South along the Hudson that may follow. how far south can they extend the 7 train? also, unearthed by whom? see, ahem, the Bowery.

Soho isn't all that bad. I have a friend that has a reasonably priced place on spring and sullivan, and I wouldn't mind living there... I looked at a couple places in west harlem. I wouldn't mind living there, either.

If I had unlimited money, I'd live in the far west village, on greenwich or washington.

i really like that area.

my west village pick would be up by where the new school is.

That's still considered Greenwich Village, though, I believe. I don't think the "West Village" is applied until west of 6th Ave (the New School being between 5th and 6th).

apparently max is accepting bullshit realtor nabe boders? sad!

@max_read
inspiring: the first thing new yorkers did after the explosion in chelsea was call loved ones to say "actually, 23rd and 6th isnt chelsea"

defiant New Yorkers tell nation: "I guess it's flatiron?"

Danielle Tcholakian ‏@danielleiat
@petersterne @max_read um full of shit it's fucking Chelsea

omg someone in the gay bar, a regular stranger, was REPEATING max's tweet

Maybe the corner of 23rd and 6th isn't really Chelsea, it's kind of a generic interzone, but 23rd between 6th and 7th is.

the best is betw 90th and 115th, between amsterdam and riverside park, btw

*adjusts ascot* twas the Ladies Mile back in the day

Nobody was anal about neighborhoods before google maps