Paris-New York: match the neighborhoods

I am going to Paris for the first time in a dozen years, and was wondering what the equivalents in Paris of New York City neighborhoods...thanks in advance. List below to jog your memory
Upper West Side
Upper East Side
Lower East Side/East Village
West Village
Tribeca
Chelsea
Williamsburg
Any other nabes I am missing?

Bed-Stuy

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other than wburg (11th arrondissement i guess) and the ues (7th) all those nyc neighborhoods are basically the same place. Paris is pretty same-y these days too tho. In any case they don't compare very well.

Ues also 16th

Uws 5th maybe

19th/20th are queens and are the best places in paris

whoa there...i don't know the arrondissement numbers too good. so other than williamsburg and ues, they're all just Paris generally? I guess before I go I'd like to be able to envision what neighborhoods to explore. Thanks again!

Better to avoid the 16th and most of the 8th. The 7th is pretty dull, too, except near the river. Go to Abbesses. Go to the Marché d'Aligre. Don't bother comparing NY and Paris as it's unlikely to be very fruitfull and it's unfair to both cities.

paris isn't neighborhoody in the same way some places are in that two random spots in the city prob aren't gonna look as different as two random spots in manhattan might. it is neighborhoody in the sense that no matter where you are it feels like a little neighborhood. the most drastically different parts of the city are in the historically poor northeast, where there are some immigrant neighborhoods and poverty. but its not bed-stuy...for a lot of reasons. there's also a decently large chinatown on the left-bank.

other than that mostly upper-middle class white ppl, nice haussman architecture and lotsa museums. the big divides (economically and aesthetically) in the Paris region are more inside the city border vs places outside the city border.

there really isn't an area as uniformly young and hip as wburg/les, but there are spots, mostly on the east side of the city.

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there's also a decently large chinatown on the left-bank.

Place d'Italie

ps I don't mean to imply that Paris sux, it's one of the greatest places on earth, just don't go there in search of clear and obvious neighborhood boundaries.

like even the arrondissement lines are just arbitrary political boundaries which don't particularly correspond to what neighborhoods do sorta exist

My favorite way to do Paris is precisely to cross neighborhoods on foot and by bus. There are neighborhoods in Paris, real quartiers that are distinct from others but they tend to gravitate around high streets and markets for real neighbors and chalands. The closer to the river you get the less neighborhoody it tends to get, since many of the surroundings are institutional; governmental, touristy, historical w/fewer actual residents but there are still quartiers defined more by architecture or places of interest

yeah just walk around and hop on random buses, it's hard to go wrong