least gentrified areas of manhattan?

So what, if any, Manhattan streets does Washington Heights correspond to?

Washington Heights is on the high ridge that rises steeply north of the narrow valley that carries 125th Street to the former ferry landing on the Hudson River. Though the neighborhood was once considered to run as far south as 125th Street, modern usage defines the neighborhood as running north from 155th Street to Inwood. At the northern end of Washington Heights, near Fort Washingon Avenue and 183rd Street in Bennett Park is a plaque marking Manhattan's highest natural elevation. Manhattan is connected to Fort Lee, New Jersey via the George Washington Bridge. To the east across the Harlem River lies the Bronx.

Inwood is the northernmost neighborhood on Manhattan Island in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Because the borough of Manhattan contains a small part of the mainland (Marble Hill) north of the island of Manhattan, Inwood is not technically the northernmost neighborhood in the entire borough. Inwood is sometimes referred to as a subsection of Washington Heights, but most people residing in or familiar with Upper Manhattan do not agree with this classification.

Inwood is bounded by the Harlem River to the north and east, Fairview Avenue to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Its main thoroughfare is Broadway, and its main shopping center is Dyckman Street. Compared to the rest of Manhattan, Inwood is a rather remote locale; it is technically closer to Westchester than it is to Midtown.

Inwood is a largely residential neighborhood, consisting mostly of apartment houses and parkland. It also houses a subway yard and Columbia University's athletic fields. From Baker Field, one can view a 100-foot Columbia "C" on the Bronx shore.

Inwood was mostly Irish for most of the 20th Century, but today the neighborhood is mainly Dominican. As real estate prices skyrocket downtown, many New Yorkers have recently discovered Inwood, one of the last reasonably affordable neighborhoods in Manhattan. Inwood appeals to many who want lower rents and a more serene, outer borough-like setting without actually leaving Manhattan and its prestigious "212" area code (and "New York, NY" postal address, which is only available in Manhattan but not the other four boroughs.) This has led some to forecast gentrification in Inwood's near future.

Inwood Hill Park, on the Hudson River, is a largely wooded city park that contains caves that were used by the Lenape before Europeans arrived, and the last salt marsh in Manhattan. Birdwatchers come to the park to see waterbirds, raptors, and a wide variety of migratory birds.

The legendary purchase of Manhattan Island from the Lenape took place in what is now Inwood Hill Park.

Inwood is the only neighborhood on Manhattan Island that has private houses (as opposed to apartment complexes, brownstones, and town houses, which dominate Manhattan.)

Marble Hill is the northernmost section of the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York. It is separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River Ship Canal, which was dug in 1895 to connect two portions of the Harlem River bypassing a very circuitous portion and leaving Marble Hill as an island. In 1914, the old river was filled in, physically connecting Marble Hill to the borough of The Bronx. When a judge found it to be legally still a part of Manhattan in 1939, the Bronx Borough President declared it 'the Bronx Sudetenland', referencing Hitler's 1938 annexation of Czechoslovakia.

Marble Hill residents remain part of a political district that includes the northernmost areas of Manhattan (Washington Heights and Inwood), but receive services from the Bronx, most likely due to reasons of convenience and safety; being serviced by a fire department located across a draw bridge (the Broadway Bridge) could delay response time, as it would require usage of the University Heights or Henry Hudson Bridges, which are further from Marble Hill than the Broadway Bridge.

The United States Postal Service treats it as if it were part of the Bronx though, as its ZIP Code is 10463 (the "104" prefix used for Bronx localities while "100" through "102" are reserved for Manhattan addresses).

In 1984, area code 718 was created out of area code 212 for the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island; in 1992, the Bronx was added to the "718" roster. Marble Hill residents fought to retain the "212" area code for the neighborhood but lost; today Marble Hill, unlike the rest of Manhattan, is in area code 718.

Marble Hill is named for the large deposits of marble underlying it. The formation, known as the Inwood marble, was formerly quarried for building stone.

New York City Subway service is provided by the 225th Street-Marble Hill station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line, served by the 1. Additionally, commuter railroad service to lower Manhattan, the Bronx, and points north is available via the Marble Hill train station, served by Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line.

I am reminded that Manhattan means Island of the Hills, unless I am misremembering.

How about that line about the fire engine going over a drawbridge? !

Those places sound like good places to visit.

It is hard in a way to believe that Americans get het up about what telephone number they have. Telephone numbers are inherently rather arbitrary-looking, inhumane, functional affairs, after all.

In modern usage, Spuyten Duyvil is the name of a subsection of the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City, named after Spuyten Duyvil Creek, a Dutch name meaning perhaps "Spinning Devil" or "Devil's Whirlpool", on its southern border. Though once a separate neighborhood from Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil currently refers to the southernmost section of Riverdale, south of 230th Street.

This neighborhood is the location of the Spuyten Duyvil train station, which is served by the Hudson Line of the Metro-North Railroad. It is also home to the Henry Hudson Bridge, which connects it to the island of Manhattan.

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it's funny how people who are planning a move to nyc ALWAYS ask about manhattan. the commute time from someplace like astoria is so quick!

it's like someone asking about a move to L.A., and being recommended the Pacoima neighborhood -- because IT'S IN LOS ANGELES CITY -- instead of, you know, Burbank or West Hollywood or Santa Monica or Culver City.

"Well, there are some overlooked great spots in the cities of Cambridge or Somerville or.."

"no no no, it has to be in BOSTON city!"

"*snicker snicker*"

I mean, sure, living in downtown Seattle has a lot of upsides, but living in an adjacent neighborhood here is far more advantageous, financially and for fun. Same with Portland.

Vancouver, BC might be an exception.. but there are more exceptions than examples, really.

Actually I take this back and want to decimate it.. E Hastings... Ugh. Kitsalano or Commercial Drive please.

well duh, park slope is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in brooklyn!

xpost - Yeah, I know Park Slope is expensive! My roommate had lived there for three years and wasn't eager to leave the area.

dude, washington heights is NOT a ghetto. it's heavily working-class dominican, but i think just as many middle-class whites live there. same with inwood. it's just a really pretty environment to live in, with beautiful deco architecture and the hudson river and ft. tryon park.

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i mean to say, Manhattan keeps on makin' it Brooklyn keeps on takin' it Bronx keeps creatin' it and Queens keeps on fakin' it.

no, really. Brooklyn's the best place in the world!

Newark is not out of the question - a few people I know have lived in the Portuguese district, known as the Ironbound, and liked it. It's known as a rough city, but the downtown area is pretty bustling - you have some big employers there (Prudential, I think?) and a few universities, so there are little cafes and lunch places. There's even a gallery that sometimes has decent art shows. But you're not going to feel like you're in the middle of some kind of burgeoning arts revival.

Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions about Jersey City.

My dentist was in Newark, but not far off 280, so I didn't have to get lost in the city.

some areas you might want to look at (no idea what the relative costs are now)
around 10th ave in the low-mid 40s (walk to penn station)
around 9th ave in the low-mid 50s (c/e to penn station)
the flower district (walk to penn station)
financial district (walk to wtc path station)
around broadway between 96th and 110th (walk to 2/3 or take 1 train and transfer across platform)

Thanks for all the info, keep it coming.

The A/C line goes through lots of cheap places to live in Brooklyn, but they get progressively rougher as you travel east: Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, Weeksville, Ocean Hill, and so on to Brownsville. I lived at the Franklin Ave C stop for three years (which in the beginning was pretty sketch for a white girl at night) and got a good deal in an un-renovated old building but those are rarer now unless you know someone in the neighborhood.

Unless you're really in love with living in Brooklyn, though, I think Grove St or Journal Sq, NJ are your best choices. Once you get the A/C to the WTC station there's still a long(!) walk to transfer to the PATH, then another train fare and another ride. While I lived in Crown Heights I dated someone in JC and I really came to resent that trip. I say, don't do it.

I throw brooklyn in because I know it a bit. (UWS as well)

I think the train to Newark is only about 15 minutes, and to Manhattan is a little less or a little more, depending on where you're going.

but not tied to it by any means.

even if you think you're sure it sucks.

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Ha, Dan, these two sentences summarize at least one chapter in like 80% of Philip Roth's novels.

(though the only father in insurance is Portnoy's)

My father volunteers with what I think is like, the last Jewish Synagague in Newark. Newark apparently has tons of beautiful temples, all of which are churches or mosques now. I think it's really cool that he's involved like that. I remember him taking me to get a suit in Patterson and driving by some porn theater, "that's where we used to hang out after school..." Of course it was a porn theater then too...ZING.

He grew up in Clifton. Both his parents passed away recently so we've been back there a few times in the last year or two. Parts are really wonderful, kind of stuck in the 60s or something.

NO LOVE FOR THE BRICK CITY HERE, YO.

But yes: N. Everett Lindabury, Boston & Northeastern's president, had our picture hanging in our hallway. The framed photograph had been awarded to my father after he had sold his first million dollars' worth of insurance, or maybe that's what came after you hit the ten-million mark. "Mr. Lindabury," "The Home Office" . . . my father made it sound to me like Roosevelt in the White House in Washington . . . and all the while how he hated their guts, Lindabury's particularly, with his corn-silk hair and his crisp New England speech, the sons in Harvard College and the daughters in finishing school, oh the whole pack of them up there in Massachusetts, shkotzim fox-hunting! playing polo! (so I heard him one night, bellowing behind his bedroom door)--and thus keeping him, you see, from being a hero in the eyes of his wife and children.