College kids swarm to Manayunk like flies to a bucket filled with unidentified brown liquid in the basement of a frat house. Do you love the disconnectedness of Red Hook but wish it were filled with the entitled drunken college pubesacks that populate the Village and Alphabet City? Manayunk and Roxborough, nestled on the shore of the mighty Schuylkill River and its gross little adjoining canal, are a shining beacon of collegiate debauchery in a city normally too broke and dysfunctional to be able to pull that sort of thing off. Roxborough and Manayunk = East Village, Alphabet City, Red Hook, Staten Island. The row homes can only be described as functional and as a friend who happily lives down there with her family explains: “It’s sometimes difficult to tell whether most of the shit on the sidewalk is canine or human.” If you’re looking for that authentic ’80s gritty urban human-feces-filled experience, South Philly just might be the neighborhood for you. If you are expecting the cutesy brownstone charm of historically Italian New York neighborhoods then you better find another neighborhood to park your Prius in. Moreover, ample danger reminds you you’re living in the real world, not overly primped (formerly pimped) gentrified city neighborhoods or the suburbs’ smiley Sublimationtowns. And it’s a quick jaunt into the thick of Manhattan. Aside from pasteurized high-rises near the train station, Yonkers is a prime place for artists and social workers to buy good housing on the sort-of cheap. But really, who cares so long as the guys in the French place (Le Bouchon = Bar Tabac) know your dog’s name?
“Springers” and “new people,” both boastfully proud of their quirky, anachronistic village (think It’s a Wonderful Life without literal angels), get some enjoyment from complaining about passenger-pigeon-dense flocks of tourists that visit town on weekends. Salty, good-natured locals and a down-to-earth mix of lawyer-y types and artists are rehabbing this walkable village’s 19th-century homes. True, living in Beacon scores you more square footage for your cash dollars and a comparatively chilled-out lifestyle, but you get these things without compromising your status as a ballsy artist, not to mention your access to craft beers.Ĭold Spring, NY = Boerum Hill. Though good chunks of Beacon are covered with galleries, hipster boutiques, and food establishments hawking kale, it’s still not entirely novel to see strutting down Main Street a meth-addled, fully oiled muscle man sporting only gold chains and an American flag speedo. Some young up-and-comers live here, and no one can argue the universal appeal of living by water, but generally speaking Greenwich is most attractive to those who are both inclined and able to carry a Fendi handbag.īeacon, NY = Williamsburg. Despite being able to get a lot of places on foot, this is a Lexus town.
ELSEWHERE NYC ZIP
As with Upper East Side ZIP Codes, Greenwich’s signify a high-end variety of excessive wealth.
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