Index / Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods
Surveyed on footTwelve districts, coded, keyed to the atlas sheets.
Codes follow the borough prefix used on our sheets. Train lines are listed as they are painted on the station column, not as the map wishes they were.
12 entries
CodeDistrictLinesNote
- MN-03Lower East SideF · J · M · ZTenement grid, late kitchens, loud sidewalks.
- MN-02ChinatownN · Q · 6Produce crates by six, tea by ten.
- MN-10Harlem2 · 3 · A · CBrownstone rows, wide avenues, church bells.
- BK-01GreenpointG · LPolish bakeries, boatyards, low sky.
- BK-07Sunset ParkD · N · RTwo main streets, one hill, best view south.
- BK-04Bed-StuyA · C · GCornice census, stoop economy.
- QN-04Jackson Heights7 · E · F · M · RGarden blocks and seventy-odd languages.
- QN-01AstoriaN · WAwnings in four alphabets.
- BX-01Mott Haven2 · 4 · 5 · 6Iron shops, murals, the Harlem River bend.
- BX-05FordhamB · D · 4Retail row, loudest sidewalk north of Canal.
- SI-01St. GeorgeFerry · SIRFerry terminal, courthouse steps, harbor wind.
- SI-03StapletonSIRBay Street storefronts, hill behind.