Strange Maps

November 23, 2006

39 - Manhattan Neighbourhoods (2.0)

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A variation on post #10 in this blog, done by Alexander Cheek and to be found on this page of his website. The differences between these two maps indicate that neighbourhoods in Manhattan are ‘fluid’, and constantly evolving.

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30 Comments »

  1. Great blog. I’m a map freak and a history buff. This NY map is very cool. I can finally explain NY’s layout to my wife so she can understand it. Nice Job.
    ~Mitch

    Comment by Mitch McDad — November 30, 2006 @

  2. I live in the area marked on the map as “Lenox Hill” and no one, as far as I know, says they live in “Lenox Hill.” We say we live on the Upper East Side.

    Comment by stormie — December 13, 2006 @

  3. Several neighborhoods here that nobody on the ground ever, ever actually speaks the name of - find me a New Yorker who actually uses Nolita and I’ll give you a bridge. But very nice map otherwise, attractive and great typography too (is that HFJ Gotham?).

    Comment by jlt — December 18, 2006 @

  4. I can’t believe Little Italy doesn’t even register as a neighborhood anymore.

    On a happier note, this is a frigging incredible blog and I’m so glad I stumbled on it. Be well.

    Comment by Brendan — January 9, 2007 @

  5. i’m looking for a way to buy this poster: http://www.sorabji.com/_/Astoria_1985

    perhaps you can help me. i would greatly appreciate any info you could provide that would result in my being able to purchase a copy. at this point i am willing to pay a significant amount of money for it. Astoria is my hometown. thank you.

    Comment by Hell Atlantic — January 19, 2007 @

  6. Where’s Roosevelt Island?

    Comment by Gene — February 11, 2007 @

  7. Pretty, but not too practical — Turtle Bay starts east of what avenue? Sugar Hill is between what avenues?

    Comment by Joe — February 11, 2007 @

  8. It’s interesting that they have NoLiTa (North of Little Italy), but they don’t have Little Italy. It’s still there, although Chinatown has certainly been extending itself northwards.

    Comment by Harris — February 12, 2007 @

  9. I’m glad to see a map that includes both Hell’s Kitchen and Clinton. Most I’ve see have been either or…

    Comment by Nick — February 12, 2007 @

  10. i used to live near the tippy top of ‘clinton’ part of your map… but nobody called it that. it was hell’s kitchen. in fact there was a campaign back then (early 1990s) against ‘clinton’ — they sold tshirts and everything! their beef was that real estate interests were trying to revive the ‘clinton’ name to de-’hell’ the place and make it sound marketable.

    Comment by hell's kitchen? — February 12, 2007 @

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  12. Great blog! Is there maps like this for the other boroughs? I would imagine Manhattan is the easiest due to the grid, but would love to see one for Brooklyn or Queens!

    Comment by olivia — February 12, 2007 @

  13. Hudson Heights does not exist. That is still Washington Heights. You are buying into prejudice and real estate agencies creating neighborhoods where none exist.

    Comment by Lee — February 12, 2007 @

  14. Wuhhh? Clinton does not exist - if you ever go up to where that cube says “Clinton”, all the signs, all the residents, etc., say it’s Hell’s Kitchen.

    If anything, the only references to Clinton is that area just above Chelsea and below Hell’s Kitchen - but you have Clinton right in the heart of the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood! Pretty bad.

    Comment by hggggg — February 12, 2007 @

  15. Oh yeah, and Alphabet City? What is this, the 1980s or the Playbill for Rent?

    Comment by hggggg — February 12, 2007 @

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  17. I CANNOT BELIEVE THE ERRORS ON THIS MAP. IT IS LIKE YOU MADE UP NEIGHBORHOODS. AND CHANGED OTHERS TO MAKE THE RICH FEEL GOOD AND PLAYED INTO THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS.I COME FROM YORKVILLE BORN AND RAISED AND IT WENT TO FIFTH AVE. I THINK YOU HAVE TAKEN GREAT LIBERTIES WITH OUR AREA . I AM SURE YOU DONT COME FROM NYC.

    Comment by KAY KIRBY — March 13, 2007 @

  18. Just a heads up… One of our bloggers mentioned your site today in a post.

    http://nyc.metblogs.com/archives/2007/03/neighborhood_ma.phtml

    Comment by Noah — March 13, 2007 @

  19. @ Kay Kirby:
    No, I’m not from NY, but I didn’t make the map either. Maybe the discrepancies mentioned by you and others are down to some real estate business slant in the make-up of this map.

    @ Noah:
    Thanks for pointing that out, cool!

    Comment by strangemaps — March 13, 2007 @

  20. Can anyone recommend a non-ugly but practical map of Manhattan’s neighbourhoods? High resolution would be best, because I’d like to make a poster out of it. This one would be great except for not having Broadway and the Avenues marked out, as well as the complaints about the use of neighborhood names that no NYers actually use.

    Comment by Jimmy — March 16, 2007 @

  21. Well, New Yorkers use some of the neighborhood names. I live in Midtown, for example. No one has called it “Radio City” for quite a while, but you could write me a letter in Radio City, NY and it’d reach me…

    I agree there are neighborhoods missing, Yorkville, Knickerbocker… And no one calls Clinton Clinton…

    Comment by daniel — July 13, 2007 @

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  23. Nice colors. The geometry is handsome though less than descriptive. It makesthe borders are hard to discern, especially in the east-west direction.

    Some of these “neighborhoods” do not exist, except in the minds - and ads - of realtors.

    Rose Hill? There is very little hill, and certainly no roses. Kips Bay would be a better name for it, though not entirely accurate either.

    Murrray Hill is smaller than shown: it does not extend below 34th street (even though the hill itself does), and it is bounded on the west by Park Avenue, on the east by Third. Nor does Murray Hill abut the Garment District: Midtown extends down between them.

    Chealsea stops at Fifth Avenue, some would argue at Sixth.

    Without Little Italy there can be no NOLITA!

    Nix NOHO and Lincoln Square: these are in the East Village and the Upper West Side, respectively.

    What on earth is “Two Bridges?”

    Tribeca - “TRIangle BElow CAnal street” is, in fact, triangular.

    I could quibble all night, but it’s still a handsome graphic. Just please please please! get rid of Rose Hill! That’s a big cemetery in New Jersey, no a neighborhood in Manhattan.

    Comment by Douglas — November 9, 2007 @

  24. hello everyone,

    wow, the comments! glad you liked it. I started out with the neighborhoods I knew and names i regularly use, then began doing some research (wikipedia, of course). then all these interesting names came up! so i incorporated them. obviously many are up for debate as are their boundaries, so if you’re flipping out over the validity, i would not suggest using this to get around town with. perhaps if I have time i’ll go in and add and remove some of the neighborhoods, but i’m glad it helped fuel the debate.

    i heard the NY Post published this last week or something?

    cheers!
    Alex

    Comment by Alex — December 30, 2007 @

  25. Not only is it attractive, but it’s more accurate than the maps in the taxis. :)

    Comment by FleaSpeech — March 17, 2008 @

  26. I know this has been stated many times, but I’ve been in this city almost 20 years now, and I live in Hell’s Kitchen, NOT Clinton.

    Comment by Jim — March 17, 2008 @

  27. Thanks for making such a clever and handy map.

    My home is at about 195th, which all my neighbors know as Inwood, because we’re in something that latitude-centric mapmakers don’t consider: a steep VALLEY. Nobody around here calls this neighborhood Fort George.

    Hillside Avenue is the uphill boundary of Inwood to the NE. Fort George was a fort in an era when forts were placed on hilltops. Fort George is to the east, Fort Tryon [Park] is to the west atop a 75-foot cliff, and High Bridge Park runs along the East River for two miles, but isn’t mentioned on the map.
    For that matter, only Central Park is shown. Riverside is gone too.

    Comment by TourguideStan — March 20, 2008 @

  28. I’ve been a tourguide since 1994. Never heard of “Rose Hill” or “Two Bridges” in that time.

    Realtors are such descriptive folks. Let’s not forget the episode in How I Met Your Mother, in which the young couple buy an apartment in “DoWiSeTriPla” only to later learn it’s “downwind from sewage treatment plant.”

    Comment by TourguideStan — March 20, 2008 @

  29. I second (or fifth) the previous comments regarding Hell’s Kitchen/Clinton. They are not separate neighborhoods but refer to same area (upper 30s to 59 west of 8th ave)

    Comment by maatthias — March 20, 2008 @

  30. I haven’t seen any comments about the omission of Sutton-Beekman.

    I don’t live in this neighborhood so I’m not sure how the residents feel about that name, but the taxi maps show that some of turtle bay/lenox hill is considered Sutton-Beekman as do many of the shops around there.

    Love the graphic though!

    Comment by Beez — March 20, 2008 @

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