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Buckhead
Buckhead is Atlanta, Georgia's affluent northern district, annexed in 1952, anchored by Lenox Square, Phipps Plaza, and Peachtree Road towers; a 2023 Buckhead City secession bid failed 33-23 in the Georgia Senate.
Bushwick, Brooklyn
Bushwick, Brooklyn (Boswijck): northeastern Brooklyn neighborhood, Brooklyn Community District 4. Dutch town chartered 1660/1661, German brewing center, devastated by the 1977 blackout, now a Latino community and street-art hub.
Canal Street (坚尼街) (Manhattan)
Canal Street (坚尼街) is a major east–west thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, running from West Street to East Broadway and anchoring Chinatown and Little Italy.
Canarsie, Brooklyn
Canarsie is a residential neighborhood in southeastern Brooklyn on Jamaica Bay, named for the Canarsee Lenape. Known for Canarsie Pier, the L train terminal, Caribbean community, and heavy Hurricane Sandy flooding.
Carnegie Hill
Carnegie Hill is an Upper East Side Manhattan neighborhood, roughly 86th to 96th/98th Streets, named for Andrew Carnegie's 1899–1902 mansion, now the Cooper Hewitt; known for Museum Mile, the 1974/1993 historic district, and pre-war co-ops.
Carrollton, Texas
Carrollton, Texas: a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of about 134,000 in Dallas, Denton, and Collin counties; settled 1840s in Peters Colony, incorporated 1913, home-rule council-manager city with DART Green and Silver Line stations and a Koreatown.
Celebration, Florida
Celebration, Florida: an unincorporated Osceola County census-designated place, Disney's master-planned New Urbanist town founded 1996 on 4,900 acres, sold off by 2004, 11,178 residents in 2020.
Charlestown, Boston
Charlestown is Boston's oldest neighborhood, founded 1628-1629 on the Mishawum peninsula, annexed by Boston in 1874. Site of the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, the 1800-1974 Charlestown Navy Yard, and the USS Constitution.
Chatsworth, Los Angeles
Chatsworth is a neighborhood in northwest San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, near the Santa Susana Pass. Known for the Homestead Acre, Stoney Point, Chatsworth Station, stagecoach history, and 1915 annexation to LA.
Chelsea, Manhattan
Chelsea, Manhattan is a neighborhood on Manhattan's West Side in New York City, known for the High Line, its historic row houses, and its many art galleries.
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Chevy Chase, Maryland: a group of municipalities and a Census-designated place in Montgomery County near Washington, DC, founded 1890 by Francis Newlands' Chevy Chase Land Company as a streetcar suburb along Connecticut Avenue.
Chinatown, Manhattan
Manhattan Chinatown, a Lower Manhattan Chinese enclave formed from the mid-1800s around Mott Street, grew past exclusion laws to an estimated 55 blocks and, with Flushing and Brooklyn, the largest US Chinese community by 1980.
Christopher Street
Christopher Street is a Greenwich Village, Manhattan street from Sixth Avenue to the Hudson River, home of the Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and namesake of Pride marches worldwide.
City Island, Bronx
City Island, Bronx, also known as City Island, New York, is a small residential island past Pelham Bay Park, known for its seafood restaurants, yacht clubs, and long nautical history.
Clifton, Staten Island
Clifton, Staten Island: North Shore neighborhood bounded by the Staten Island Railway, Osgood Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue, and The Narrows; founded 1835 by Thomas Scott, home to St. John's Church landmarks and Clifton Yard.
Co-op City, Bronx
Co-op City is a limited-equity Mitchell-Lama housing cooperative in Baychester, the northeast Bronx, built 1966-1973 by the United Housing Foundation on the former Freedomland U.S.A. site; with 15,372 apartments and about 50,000 residents it is the largest housing cooperative in the United States.
Coconut Grove
Coconut Grove (The Grove) is Miami's oldest neighborhood, settled by Bahamians in the 1870s, annexed by Miami in 1925, with a historic Black West Grove, bayfront setting, and ongoing redevelopment.
Columbine, Colorado
Columbine, Colorado is an unincorporated census-designated place in Jefferson and Arapahoe counties southwest of Denver, population 25,229 (2020), known for the April 20, 1999 Columbine High School massacre and its affluent, heavily owner-occupied suburbs.
Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle, New York, is a Manhattan traffic circle where Broadway, Eighth Avenue, 59th Street, and Central Park West meet, named for its 1892 Columbus monument.
Coney Island
Coney Island, Brooklyn, the "People's Playground": a peninsula seaside amusement district with the Riegelmann Boardwalk, Cyclone (1927), Wonder Wheel, Luna Park, and over 5 million annual visitors, now undergoing a $1 billion city redevelopment.
Crenshaw, Los Angeles
Crenshaw is a South Los Angeles neighborhood along Crenshaw Boulevard, named in 1904 for developer George Lafayette Crenshaw. A historic hub of Black and Japanese-American life, it is served by the Metro K Line and the Destination Crenshaw open-air museum project.
Delancey Street
Delancey Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare on Manhattan's Lower East Side, running from the Bowery to the Williamsburg Bridge approach and carrying traffic between Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
Disney Springs
Disney Springs is Walt Disney World's free shopping, dining, and entertainment district in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Opened 1975 as Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village, renamed Downtown Disney, then Disney Springs in 2015; four neighborhoods, 120 acres, 150+ venues.
Dorchester, Boston
Dorchester is Boston's largest and one of its most diverse neighborhoods, a 1630 town annexed in 1870, known for triple-deckers, distinct villages, and recent projects like Dot Block.
Douglaston–Little Neck, Queens
Douglaston–Little Neck is a low-density residential neighborhood at far northeastern Queens, New York, on the Nassau County border and Little Neck Bay, with landmarked Douglas Manor and Douglaston Hill historic districts, LIRR commuter rail, and about 25,600 residents.
Downtown Honolulu
Downtown Honolulu is Oʻahu's civic and business core beside Honolulu Harbor, home to ʻIolani Palace, the State Capitol, Aloha Tower, historic Chinatown, and the future Skyline Segment 3 rail stations opening around 2031.
Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the city's central business district, about five to six square miles of Historic Core, Arts District, Little Tokyo, and South Park, anchored by Union Station, the Music Center, and Crypto.com Arena, with 26% of city housing added since 2010.
Downtown Pittsburgh
Downtown Pittsburgh, the Golden Triangle, is the city's central business district at the three-rivers confluence, now undergoing a $600 million, 10-year revitalization with office-to-housing conversions, a rebuilt Market Square, Arts Landing, and a planned $418 million Loews hotel.
Dumbo, Brooklyn
Dumbo (DUMBO), Brooklyn: East River waterfront neighborhood between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, named for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass"; a former industrial district, now a preserved loft neighborhood and tech hub with Brooklyn's highest housing prices.
East Chattanooga
East Chattanooga, a Chattanooga, Tennessee neighborhood east of downtown near Missionary Ridge and the Glass Farm area, grew as a railroad-era industrial district and is now the focus of the East Chattanooga Rising redevelopment around the former Harriet Tubman housing site.