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42nd Street (Manhattan)
42nd Street is a crosstown Midtown Manhattan street through Times Square, the Theater District, and Grand Central. Known for its 1970s–80s decline, the 42nd Street Development Project, New 42 theaters, and the 2026 235 East 42nd Street structural failure.
52nd Street (Manhattan)
52nd Street is a two-mile crosstown street in Midtown Manhattan, best known for the blocks between Fifth and Seventh Avenues that were the city's jazz hub in the 1930s and 1940s.
740 Eighth Avenue
740 Eighth Avenue, known as The Torch, is Extell's supertall hotel and observation tower under construction in Midtown Manhattan, designed by ODA with SLCE, featuring a drop ride, about 1,029-1,067 feet tall.
Adams Morgan
Adams Morgan, northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood centered on 18th Street and Columbia Road; named for the Adams and Morgan schools (1955); historic immigrant gateway, nightlife and dining destination; about 25,000 residents, 66% renters.
Aladdin (hotel and casino)
The Aladdin, also known as Aladdin Las Vegas, was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, opened in 1966 and imploded in 1998.
Algonquin Hotel
The Algonquin Hotel, opened November 22, 1902 at 59 West 44th Street, Manhattan, is a historic boutique hotel famed for the Algonquin Round Table (1919–1929), Frank Case's ownership, the Blue Bar, and its resident cat Hamlet.
Alphabet City, Manhattan
Alphabet City, Manhattan: East Village sub-neighborhood between Avenues A-D, Houston Street and 14th Street, named for its lettered avenues; also called Loisaida; known for Nuyorican culture, Tompkins Square Park, and gentrification since the 1990s.
Amherst, New York
Amherst, New York: suburban town in Erie County northeast of Buffalo, established 1818 and named for Sir Jeffrey Amherst. Largest Buffalo suburb, about 130,000 residents, home to University at Buffalo North Campus.
Anacostia
Anacostia, historic neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. east of the Anacostia River, established 1854; name from the Nacotchtank people; home of Frederick Douglass's Cedar Hill and the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.
Antioch, Nashville
Antioch is a southeastern Nashville, Tennessee neighborhood, established 1810 near Mill Creek, suburbanized from the 1950s, and now a fast-growing retail and housing hub led by Century Farms and ZIP 37013.
Arthur Avenue
Arthur Avenue is a Belmont, Bronx street serving as New York's Italian-American "real Little Italy," centered on the 1940 LaGuardia-era Arthur Avenue Retail Market, family food shops, Ferragosto, and a 2016 APA Great Street designation.
Astoria, Queens
Astoria is a neighborhood in northwest Queens, New York City, on the East River, also called Little Egypt for its Arab commercial streets. Named for John Jacob Astor, it is known for its Greek community, Kaufman Astoria Studios, and immigrant diversity.
Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Atwater Village is a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles between the Los Angeles River and Glendale, home to about 13,800 people and many homes built before 1940.
Austin, Chicago
Austin is a West Side Chicago community area bordering Oak Park, annexed in 1899. Population 97,452 (2024), 69% Black, marked by disinvestment, high violence, and active community organizations.
Battery Park City
Battery Park City is a 92-acre planned neighborhood on the Lower West Side of Manhattan, built on landfill along the Hudson River and managed by the Battery Park City Authority.
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Bay Ridge, formerly Yellow Hook, is a residential neighborhood on the southwestern tip of Brooklyn, facing Upper New York Bay and the Narrows, renamed in 1853.
Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Bedford–Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) is a central Brooklyn neighborhood formed in 1930, historically Black, known for brownstones, the first US community development corporation, and rapid gentrification: Black share fell from 74.9% (2000) to 38.3% (2024).
Bel Air, Los Angeles
Bel Air (Bel-Air) is an affluent hillside neighborhood in Westside Los Angeles, founded in 1922 by oil tycoon Alphonzo Bell on the Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres; known for the Platinum Triangle, ZIP 90077, the 1961 Bel Air fire, and multimillion-dollar estates.
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn: densely populated southwestern Brooklyn neighborhood in Community District 11; historically Italian-American "Little Italy," now Brooklyn's largest Chinatown, 58.5% foreign-born, 183,378 residents (2024).
Beverly, Chicago
Beverly, Chicago: community area 72 on the Far Southwest Side, on the Blue Island Ridge, the city's highest natural ground. Irish-American, integrated South Side neighborhood; 19,521 residents, median household income $132,097, Rock Island Metra line.
Borough Park, Brooklyn
Borough Park (Boro Park) is a dense southwestern Brooklyn neighborhood with one of the largest Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities in the United States, about 210,000 residents, 300+ religious institutions, and Maimonides Medical Center, New York's busiest maternity hospital.
Bourbon Street
Bourbon Street (Rue Bourbon) is the famous nightlife corridor of New Orleans' French Quarter, laid out in 1722, a nightlife hub since the Civil War, site of the January 1, 2025 truck attack that killed 14, and now the subject of pedestrianization and bollard security debates.
Bowery
The Bowery is a 1.5-mile Manhattan street and neighborhood, New York City's oldest thoroughfare, a Lenape trail turned Dutch farm road (Bouwerij), later an entertainment district, Skid Row, and gentrifying area.
Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
Boyle Heights is a predominantly Latino, working-class Eastside Los Angeles neighborhood across the LA River from Downtown, known for gentrification battles, gentefication, transit-oriented development conflicts, its 2026 community plan update, and the Lineage warehouse fire recovery.
Brentwood, Los Angeles
Brentwood is an affluent residential Westside neighborhood of Los Angeles, about 7.8 square miles with roughly 33,000 residents, annexed in 1916, home to the Getty Center and San Vicente Boulevard's coral-tree median.
Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, nicknamed Little Odessa, is a seaside neighborhood with a large Russian-speaking population from post-1970s Soviet Jewish immigration, a 1878 resort hotel origin, and a Brighton Beach Avenue commercial strip.
Broadway (Manhattan)
Broadway is Manhattan's oldest major thoroughfare, a former Native American trail that predates the 1811 grid and cuts diagonally across it, creating Union, Madison, Herald, and Times Squares and anchoring the 39-theatre Broadway Theater District.
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights is a historic Brooklyn, New York neighborhood across the East River from Lower Manhattan; America's first commuter suburb and New York City's first designated historic district (1965), known for brownstones, the Promenade, and a 50-foot height limit.
Brownsville, Brooklyn
Brownsville, Brooklyn: a central Brooklyn neighborhood (with Ocean Hill, Community District 16), once a Jewish immigrant enclave, now known for the nation's densest public housing concentration, high poverty, and the $1 billion 2017 Brownsville Plan.
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Main Line community about 9 miles west of Philadelphia, home of Bryn Mawr College and Harcum College, named in 1869 for Rowland Ellis's Welsh farm ("great hill"), straddling Montgomery and Delaware counties.