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This residential community in Lower Manhattan is almost like living in suburbia but with access to the amenities of a global city. The neighborhood is prized for its location on New York Harbor, offering unparalleled views of the New York City skyline, Hudson River, iconic landmarks Lady Liberty and Ellis Island, Governor’s Island, Liberty State Park, and the New Jersey shoreline.

Beekman’s exclusive location and historic architecture have made it [feel] close to, but far enough away from, Midtown Manhattan. The United Nations Headquarters, just a few blocks away, adds to the allure as do the elegant homes—whose past residents included Irving Berlin and Henry Kissinger—ivy-covered townhouses and prewar and modern condominiums that offer spectacular, unobstructed views of the East River and the New York City skyline.

A small enclave of Midtown West, Central Park South occupies just three blocks along 59th Street, between Columbus Circle to the west and Fifth Avenue to the east. Central Park South has the most expensive real estate in New York City, a mix of white-glove prewar and contemporary condominium and co-op buildings with the best views of Central Park. Just to the south is Billionaires’ Row, a gilded strip along 57th Street, lined with brand-new ultra-luxury and ultra-high condominium towers. The neighbourhood has many of the city’s finest restaurants and luxury retailers, while cultural attractions, including the Theater District and Lincoln Center, are within a short walk.

Chelsea is the hub of the contemporary art market. This edgy, urban Manhattan neighborhood is the world’s largest gallery district, with approximately 300 galleries and art spaces. But it’s not just the art: This fashionable west-side neighborhood boasts a dynamic restaurant scene, designer shopping, world-class recreation, glamorous nightlife, and ultra-luxurious real estate.

The neighborhood dates from the 1870s, when Chinese migrants moved from the West Coast after the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Since then, this small enclave in Lower Manhattan has welcomed industrious newcomers: and those seeking a unique urban experience. Transformed from its beginnings as a tight-knit immigrant community, the energetic streetscape is today a mecca of art, industry, and commerce, and is set to become a luxury retail destination.

The enclave of Downtown Manhattan between Astor Place and the East River will forever be associated with the counterculture. What began as vast farmland owned by Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant was parceled out during the great 19th-century immigration wave and became the Lower East Side. In the 1950s, Willem de Kooning and other Abstract Expressionist painters arrived. The beatniks, edged out of the West Village by rising rents, and writers like Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg soon followed. A decade later, it was the turn of musicians, hippies, and artists, including Andy Warhol, to make the exodus east. The neighborhood’s subsequent gentrification and rebranding as the “East Village” began around 1964, according to the guidebook Earl Wilson’s New York, which noted, archly, “Artists, poets and promoters of coffeehouses from Greenwich Village are trying to remelt the neighborhood under the high-sounding name of ‘East Village.’”

At the confluence of the Hudson and East Rivers, the Financial District, or FiDi, has become one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Manhattan, with the number of residents increasing by almost a third between 2014 and 2018. Its resurgence as a residential hot spot can be attributed in part to spectacular waterfront views, newly renovated condos and outstanding public transportation options. Fast-paced and bustling with workers and tourists during daytime hours, the evening gives way to the after-work crowd and residents. There is no shortage of things to do with dining options and cocktail bars around the World Trade Center, South Street Seaport and the curvy, cobbled Stone Street serving well into the night.

This small yet vibrant commercial district in Midtown is so-named for its architectural centerpiece, the most distinctive, original, and inspiring of Manhattan's original skyscrapers. The shock of the 20th century arrived when the defiant, steel-framed wedge of the Flatiron Building first rose above the confluence of Broadway and Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street in 1902. Chicago architect Daniel Burnham’s site-specific, 22-story, wind-braced design—dubbed “Burnham’s Folly” by dubious New Yorkers—was leading-edge tech in its day. Its inspiration lingers. The neighborhood was known first as the Toy District, for its wholesalers’ innovative playthings; then, as the Photo District, as new, mass-market camera technology arrived. Lately, it’s known as “Silicon Alley,” and "Multimedia Gulch" for its many tech-start-ups, multimedia firms, and innovative ad agencies that Flatiron welcomed to begin the 21st century.

For more than a century. Access to the park is limited to residents of the surrounding buildings, hotel guests, members of nearby clubs, and religious institutions. The park opens its doors to the public just once a year on Christmas Eve. The Gramercy Park neighborhood has a small-town charm; unique shops and cozy restaurants are found throughout this tiny enclave and those looking to escape the bustle of Midtown.

Greenwich Village’s narrow, winding streets, magnificent architecture, and small parks are the backdrop of this charming yet distinctly urban neighborhood. With few tall apartment buildings, this historic district is an oasis of leafy lanes and landmarked buildings, whose denizens are passionate about preserving the small-town feel. Offering quintessential city living with a charismatic history, Greenwich Village is coveted by those who want to experience old New York but with a modern twist.

Hell’s Kitchen has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last 25 years and has evolved into a chic urban enclave that has retained much of its urban “west side” character made famous by Leonard Bernstein’s iconic 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story. The neighborhood’s diverse performing arts scene includes Broadway and off-Broadway shows, experimental theater, and world-class ballet and contemporary dance at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Centered on the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, the Lincoln Square neighborhood, one of Upper Manhattan’s neighborhoods. Thanks to its enviable location in the city’s cultural hub, on the doorstep of its commercial hub, Midtown. A center of ballet, contemporary dance, opera, film, and classical music, where streets named after Leonard Bernstein and George Balanchine lead to the nation’s largest performing arts complex.

The original melting pot of the Big Apple, the Lower East Side has a long and storied history as the gateway neighborhood of New York City. Throughout the 19th century it was the first port of call for immigrants from Germany, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, and Russia. By the mid-1800s, the area had become a bustling manufacturing district, which created a huge demand for labor. At the same time. The massive influx of immigrants gave rise to the need for cheap housing and thus the Lower East Side saw the construction of the first tenement buildings in the United States. Its rebirth began in the 1950s with the arrival of the Beat Generation.The neighborhood’s colorful downtown scene and affordable rents soon attracted emerging artists and musicians.

The Meatpacking District is a neighborhood transformed. This small enclave on the West Side of Manhattan, bordering the Hudson River, the West Village, and Chelsea, was once home to hundreds of meatpacking plants, slaughterhouses, factories, and warehouses during the first half of the 20th century, and, after decades of decline from the 1960s to early ‘90s, during which it became an edgy, downmarket nightspot, it has emerged as the most fashionable neighborhood in the city.

Midtown is the heart of New York City. And Midtown East, which stretches from the East River to its main thoroughfare, Fifth Avenue, forms its elegant commercial core. Here iconic skyscrapers and historic landmarks, global and cultural institutions, centers of commerce, high-end department stores and boutiques, and luxury residences seamlessly converge. From the neo-Gothic St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the Beaux Arts New York Public Library and Grand Central Terminal, the Art Deco Chrysler Building to the Postmodern United Nations Headquarters, and the contemporary skyscrapers inching ever skyward, the neighborhood is a living monument to the American Dream.

Midtown West’s vibrant and myriad neighborhoods within a neighborhood offer the energy and creativity of the city. Tourists from around the world converge on Times Square, giving it a cosmopolitan flair. Entertaining options range from high tea at the Plaza Hotel to taking in a show on Broadway to sitting courtside for Knicks basketball at Madison Square Garden. The views from above are unparalleled, from grand residences that line Central Park South and Billionaire’s Row to the viewing platforms at the Empire State Building and Top of the Rock.

Murray Hill’s history dates back more than two and a half centuries. The area was named after Robert Murray, an 18th-century merchant whose 25-acre colonial homestead, Belmont, stood at Park Avenue and 37th Street. In 1847, Murray’s descendants subdivided the land into parcels and drew up the Murray Hill Restriction, a covenant preventing commercial encroachment on the neighborhood. Soon after, Manhattan’s most affluent moved in, building their grand brownstone mansions and carriage houses in this genteel enclave of Midtown. Further restrictions and neighborhood associations in the mid-20th century preserved the area’s original residential character along with its historic buildings and landmarks.

While only 125 buildings make up this unique landmarked neighborhood, NoHo has been an exclusive enclave since the 1800s with its iconic cast-iron architecture and loft spaces. The streets are small and quaint, some with cobblestones and an atmosphere of old New York. NoHo is bordered by bustling Broadway, Lafayette Street, and the Bowery, with access to major transit routes.

The tiny neighborhood of Nolita (“North of Little Italy”), with its narrow tree-lined streets, is considered by its residents the new SoHo: charming, elegant, and hip—an urban oasis with an effortlessly cool vibe. The area has a quiet, yet stylish residential ambiance, with a mix of longtime tenants and trendsetting newcomers.

<span>New York’s fashion mecca, SoHo is where couture meets cobblestone. This iconic downtown neighborhood “South of Houston” is renowned for the unique 19th-century buildings that make up the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. An urban renewal project during the 1970s transformed the area’s 500 or so cast-iron buildings into highly desirable residential/commercial loft spaces. The historic architecture and the hip scene that has grown up around it over the last four decades—art galleries, designer emporiums, and exciting nightlife—is a draw for fashion mavens, artists, and A-listers alike, making SoHo one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the city.</span>

Tribeca’s rebirth became possible only with the postwar decline of Lower Manhattan as a manufacturing and shipping nexus. Artists, priced out of vanishing Greenwich Village studios in the ’60s and ’70s, ventured across Canal Street and found huge empty lofts filled with light and air—and cheap rents. Where starving artists established their village, hipness followed and, eventually, the well-heeled and fashionable. In the ’80s, residential rezoning and redevelopment attracted Wall Street financiers and SoHo fashionistas from their neighboring districts.

Over the last two centuries, the Union Square neighborhood has been on the cutting edge of innovation, social justice, and the arts. It is still a center for political action as well as a commercial and cultural hub, offering some of the finest shopping, dining, and nightlife in the city. Close to several higher education institutions—among them Parsons School of Design, the School of Visual Arts, the New School, and New York University campuses—and the hotbed of fashion, media, design, and tech firms in the bordering. Fast-paced during the day and a trendy night spot after hours.

Home to Central Park, Museum Mile, the white-glove doorman, and some of the finest Beaux Arts architecture in the United States. Since the late 1800s, living east of Central Park has drawn America’s most affluent and influential—names like Rockefeller, Astor, Duke, and Vanderbilt—who built their limestone palaces along the “Gold Coast,” between 59th and 78th Streets from Fifth to Lexington Avenues. The area is one of New York City’s largest landmark districts.

It was the Upper West Side’s most famous residents—John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Streisand, and Woody Allen—who put it on the map. Today, the streetscape may have changed, but the ambience remains and is reflected in its cultural institutions: the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, American Museum of Natural History, Symphony Space, Beacon Theater, Juilliard School, and just to its north, Columbia University. These cultural, educational and performance spaces give the UWS scene a unique, highly creative luster. But it’s also a  neighborhood flanked by two parks, Central Park on its eastern border, and Riverside Park along the banks of the Hudson.

The High Line—an elevated railway track converted into a landscaped urban park with views of the Hudson River and New Jersey—is the jewel of this enclave on Manhattan’s Lower West Side. This neighborhood is also host to the world’s largest gallery district. Its 200-plus contemporary art, sculpture, and photography gallery spaces include the elite Gagosian and David Zwirner galleries. High-end retailers, such as Barney’s Co-op, Alexander McQueen, and Stella McCartney, housed in former warehouses, adjoin the city’s newest architectural landmarks: luxurious condominiums and commercial spaces designed by celebrated architects, such as Frank Gehry and Sir Norman Foster. A short walk from the High Line is Chelsea Market, an indoor emporium replete with haute restaurants, gourmet food purveyors, and trendy boutiques; and Chelsea Piers, an indoor-outdoor sports complex where fitness fanatics can learn, play, or compete in sports ranging from rock climbing and golf to baseball and ice hockey.

Once a haven for writers and artists, and for good reason: The Village’s winding cobblestone streets, courtyard gardens, charming townhouses, candlelit bistros, and quirky boutiques offer a relaxing interlude from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the Big Apple. The Washington Square Arch, designed by noted architect Stanford White, is the park is surrounded by historic townhouses, including some of the finest Federal-style architecture in the city. The landmark Macdougal Alley is the former home of Mark Twain. Other famous past residents include Beaux-Arts sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Walt Whitman, Salvador Dali, Thomas Wolfe, and Jackson Pollock. Andy Warhol lived at the iconic Hotel Albert, which was frequented by musicians such as Bob Dylan and the Mamas & The Papas, who wrote California Dreamin’ there.

At the heart of this enclave is Carl Schurz Park—home to Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the Mayor of New York City. The East River Esplanade, another pedestrian-zoned green space, sits atop FDR drive along the East River, offering sweeping views of Roosevelt Island and Queens. The ambiance of this neighborhood is laid-back, slow-paced, and friendly. Just because of its proximity to the Upper East Side’s vast hospital complex, a bit farther south, but because of access to the highest density of schools.