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East Flatbush, Brooklyn
East Flatbush, formerly called Rugby, is a largely residential neighborhood in northeastern Brooklyn with a 2024 population of about 129,738 and a large Caribbean-American community.
East Hampton, Virginia
East Hampton is a residential area in Hampton, Virginia, near Phoebus, Kecoughtan, and Fort Monroe, at 37.0327 N, 76.3327 W, elevation about 3 feet, in the Hampton Roads region.
East Harlem
East Harlem, also called El Barrio or Spanish Harlem, is a Manhattan neighborhood between 96th Street, Fifth Avenue, and the Harlem River, known for its Puerto Rican and Latino heritage, NYCHA housing concentration, 2017 rezoning, and gentrification pressures.
East Village, Manhattan
East Village, Manhattan: neighborhood bounded by East 14th Street, 3rd Avenue, East Houston Street, and the East River; also called Alphabet City or Loisaida; about 62,000 residents, Tompkins Square Park, punk rock history, and 2008 rezoning.
Edgewater, Chicago
Edgewater is Chicago Community Area #77, a dense lakefront North Side neighborhood founded by John Lewis Cochran in the 1880s, annexed in 1889, and separated from Uptown in 1980; about 56,600 residents, majority-renter, highly educated, on the CTA Red Line.
Embassy Row
Embassy Row is the stretch of Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., from Dupont Circle to Observatory Circle, lined with embassies in Gilded Age mansions, the 1931 Lutyens British Embassy, and the May Passport DC open house.
Encino, Los Angeles
Encino is a neighborhood in the southern San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, centered on Ventura Boulevard. It grew from Rancho Los Encinos, a 4,460-acre Mexican-era ranch whose adobe, Garnier House, and spring survive in the five-acre Los Encinos State Historic Park.
Englewood, Chicago
Englewood, Chicago: South Side community area 68, founded as Junction Grove at an 1852 railroad junction, annexed 1889; peaked near 97,000, then declined through white flight, redlining, and disinvestment to about 24,000 residents in 2020.
Fairfax District, Los Angeles
Fairfax District, Los Angeles: central LA neighborhood along Fairfax Avenue, home of the Original Farmers Market (1934), CBS Television City, a historic Jewish community, and a noted streetwear retail corridor.
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue, Manhattan's 6.2-mile north-south avenue from Washington Square to 143rd Street, mapped in 1811, opened 1824 as Middle Road; home of Millionaire's Row, the Midtown luxury retail corridor, and the $402 million Future of Fifth redesign.
Financial District, Manhattan
The Financial District (FiDi) is Lower Manhattan's neighborhood at the southern tip, home of Wall Street and the NYSE, once a 9-to-5 office core now reshaped by office-to-residential conversions, dense transit at Fulton Street, and major flood-resilience planning after Hurricane Sandy.
Five Points, Manhattan
Five Points was a notorious 19th-century Lower Manhattan slum centered on the 1809 intersection of Orange, Cross, and Anthony Streets, known for tenements, gangs, Black and Irish community life, and later slum clearance.
Flatiron District
Flatiron District: Manhattan neighborhood named for the 1902 Flatiron Building (Fuller Building) by Daniel Burnham at Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street; commercial district around Madison Square Park, NYC landmark since 1966, now converting to residences.
Flushing, Queens
Flushing, Queens: New York City neighborhood founded 1645 as Dutch Vlissingen, site of the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance for religious freedom, now the city's largest Chinese community.
Foggy Bottom
Foggy Bottom is a northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood between 17th Street, Rock Creek, the Potomac, and Pennsylvania Avenue; founded as Hamburg in 1763 by Joseph Funk, industrialized by German and Irish immigrants, and now home to GWU and the State Department.
Forest Hills, Queens
Forest Hills is a residential neighborhood in central Queens, New York City, known for the planned garden community of Forest Hills Gardens and its Austin Street shopping district.
Fort Sheridan, Illinois
Fort Sheridan, Illinois: former U.S. Army post (1887-1993) on Lake Michigan in Lake County, 25 miles north of Chicago, named for General Philip Sheridan; Holabird & Roche buildings, closed under BRAC 1988, now a residential community and forest preserve.
Fraunces Tavern
Fraunces Tavern is a historic tavern and museum at 54 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan, best known as the site of George Washington's 1783 farewell to his officers.
Fremont Street
Fremont Street is Downtown Las Vegas' original 1905 thoroughfare, first paved street (1925), home of Glitter Gulch casinos, and since 1995 the five-block Fremont Street Experience pedestrian mall under a 1,375-foot LED canopy.
Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)
Georgetown is a historic neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., predating the federal city. It is recognized for its Federal and Georgian-style rowhouses and the campus of Georgetown University.
Georgetown Heights (historical)
Georgetown Heights (historical): 19th-century name for the elevated area of Washington, DC north of old Georgetown, centered on Mount Alto (Red Hill), site of the Naval Observatory and Civil War signal camp, last used in print in 1926.
Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn
Gerritsen Beach is a small coastal peninsula neighborhood in southern Brooklyn along Jamaica Bay, developed in the 1920s, home to one of NYC's few volunteer fire departments, and heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, also known as Little Poland, is a neighborhood at the northern tip of Brooklyn, New York City, long known for its Polish community.
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, Manhattan neighborhood centered on Washington Square Park; historic artists' and bohemian quarter, site of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, NYC historic district since 1969, now among the city's wealthiest districts.
Greenwood District, Tulsa
Greenwood District, Tulsa, known as Black Wall Street, was a prosperous Black business district founded by O.W. Gurley in 1906, destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, rebuilt, then diminished by urban renewal.
Grosse Pointe
Grosse Pointe: five separate municipalities (Park, City, Farms, Woods, Shores) on Lake St. Clair northeast of Detroit, the 'Gold Coast'; French ribbon farms turned auto-elite estates; ~45,600 residents, shared school district, 2024 average home price above $500,000.
Haight-Ashbury
Haight-Ashbury: San Francisco neighborhood at Haight and Ashbury streets, center of the 1967 Summer of Love; Victorian houses, Haight Street retail corridor, about 21,800 residents.
Harlem
Harlem, upper Manhattan neighborhood, formerly Nieuw Haarlem (1660); center of African American culture and the Harlem Renaissance; about 70% Black by 1930, now gentrifying with an 11% Black population decline 2010–2023.
Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen (Clinton) is a Manhattan neighborhood from 34th to 59th Streets, Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River, named in an 1881 New York Times report, renamed Clinton in 1959, known for gangs, the Westies, Theater District adjacency, and Hudson Yards rezoning.
Herald Square
Herald Square, Manhattan: bow-tie plaza at Broadway, Sixth Avenue, and West 34th–35th Streets, named for the New York Herald; home of the Bennett Monument clock, Macy's flagship, and the Macy's parade terminus.