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Highland Park, Los Angeles
Highland Park is a Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood in the Arroyo Seco, annexed by the city in 1895. Known for the Highland Park-Garvanza HPOZ, Metro A Line service, its Latino community, and gentrification.
Hill District
The Hill District is a predominantly African American neighborhood of about 1.56 square miles east of Downtown Pittsburgh, once a national Black cultural and jazz center, devastated by 1950s urban renewal that displaced 8,000 residents, and now undergoing major redevelopment.
Hollywood
Hollywood, a Los Angeles neighborhood founded in 1886, incorporated 1903, annexed 1910, is the center of the American film industry, home to the Hollywood Sign, Walk of Fame, and dense renter population.
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard is a major commercial and entertainment street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, best known for the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the TCL Chinese Theatre, and the Academy Awards.
Hollywood Hills
Hollywood Hills is a hillside Los Angeles neighborhood on the Santa Monica Mountains' southern slopes, home to the 1923 Hollywoodland development and Hollywood Sign, modernist hill houses, about 21,000-23,000 residents, and the January 2025 Sunset Fire.
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood, Los Angeles: neighborhood founded 1887 by the Wilcoxes, an independent city 1903-1910, then the center of the American film industry; dense, transit-oriented, home to the Walk of Fame, Hollywood Sign, and Cinerama Dome.
Holmby Hills, Los Angeles
Holmby Hills is a neighborhood of large estates in western Los Angeles, between Beverly Hills and Bel Air, known for Period Revival mansions, Harold Lloyd's Greenacres, and the Playboy Mansion.
Howard Beach
Howard Beach, Queens, is a waterfront neighborhood in southwestern Queens, New York City, built on reclaimed marshland along Jamaica Bay and named for William J. Howard.
Hudson Yards, Manhattan
Hudson Yards is a 28-acre mixed-use development on Manhattan's far West Side, the largest private real estate development in U.S. history, built on platforms over active rail yards and opened in phases starting 2019.
Humboldt Park, Chicago
Humboldt Park is a West Side Chicago community area (Community Area 23) and a 197.26-acre park named in 1869 for Alexander von Humboldt, designed by Jenney and Jensen, and the center of Puerto Rican Chicago along Paseo Boricua.
Hunts Point, Bronx
Hunts Point, Bronx: a South Bronx peninsula between the East and Bronx Rivers, named for Thomas Hunt Jr., annexed in 1874, and home to the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center's produce, meat, and fish markets.
Hyde Park, Chicago
Hyde Park, Chicago, is a lakefront South Side neighborhood home to the University of Chicago and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, about six miles from the Loop.
Inwood, Manhattan
Inwood is the northernmost Manhattan neighborhood, bounded by the Hudson and Harlem rivers and Spuyten Duyvil Creek. Known for 196-acre Inwood Hill Park with Manhattan's last natural forest and salt marsh, the Dyckman Farmhouse, Art Deco apartment buildings, and a largely Dominican and Latino community.
Jamaica, Queens
Jamaica, Queens: historic NYC neighborhood, once Rustdorp, settled 1656, major LIRR and subway transit hub, site of 2025 Jamaica Neighborhood Plan rezoning for 12,000 homes.
Japantown, San Francisco
Japantown (Nihonmachi), San Francisco: oldest and largest of three remaining US Japantowns, in the Western Addition since 1906; devastated by WWII incarceration and 1948 redevelopment, now a designated cultural district.
K Street (Washington, D.C.)
K Street (Washington, D.C.): downtown NW corridor planned 147 feet wide by L'Enfant, once mansion row, since the 1970s shorthand for the lobbying industry though most major firms have moved elsewhere.
Kensington, Brooklyn
Kensington is a largely residential neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York City, just below Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, known for its cultural diversity, tree-lined streets, and relative affordability.
Kensington, Philadelphia
Kensington, Philadelphia: a Northeast-area neighborhood founded by Anthony Palmer in the 1730s, once a textile and carpet manufacturing hub, now the epicenter of the region's opioid crisis and of Mayor Parker's revitalization efforts.
Kew Gardens, Queens
Kew Gardens is a Queens, New York City neighborhood, a planned early-1900s garden suburb by the Man family, named after London's Kew Gardens, with prewar Tudor housing, about 24,500 residents, and borough courts.
Kips Bay, Manhattan
Kips Bay is a Manhattan East Side neighborhood from about 23rd to 34th Streets, named for Jacobus Kip's 1655 East River farm, site of the 1776 Battle of Kip's Bay, and home to Bellevue Hospital and NYU Langone.
Koreatown, Los Angeles
Koreatown, Los Angeles (한인타운) is a central LA neighborhood proclaimed "Koreatown" by the city in 1980, built by post-1965 Korean immigration around Olympic Boulevard, now the largest Korean district outside Korea and a majority-Latino, transit-rich, gentrifying district.
La Jolla
La Jolla, nicknamed The Jewel, is an affluent coastal community of about 5,718 acres in northern San Diego, California, founded by the 1887 Grand Auction, home to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and the Salk Institute, and the site of a 2020s cityhood secession effort.
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is a 4.2-mile resort casino corridor on Las Vegas Boulevard South, mostly in unincorporated Clark County. Key facts: El Rancho Vegas opened 1941; 38.5 million 2025 visitors; $8.8 billion Strip gaming revenue.
Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles
Laurel Canyon is a Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles along Laurel Canyon Boulevard, known for its 1960s-70s singer-songwriter scene, Wonderland Avenue Elementary gifted magnet school, 1910 first U.S. trolley bus line, and Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone hillside terrain.
Lee's Summit
Lee's Summit, Missouri: Kansas City suburb in Jackson and Cass counties, founded 1865 as Strother by William B. Howard, renamed 1868 after Dr. J.P.G. Lea (misspelled Lee); sixth-largest Missouri city, about 107,500 residents.
Lincoln Park, Chicago
Lincoln Park is Chicago's largest public park, 1,214 acres on the North Side lakefront, formerly the city cemetery, named for Abraham Lincoln in 1865, home to the free Lincoln Park Zoo, Conservatory, and Chicago History Museum.
Little Germany, Manhattan
Kleindeutschland (Little Germany, Dutchtown) was Manhattan's German immigrant enclave on the Lower East Side, the leading German-American neighborhood in the US by the 1850s, ended by the 1904 General Slocum disaster.
Little Havana
Little Havana is a Miami neighborhood west of Downtown, centered on Calle Ocho (SW 8th Street). Formerly Riverside and Jewish, it became a Cuban exile hub in the 1960s, later Nicaraguan and Central American, listed endangered in 2015.
Little Italy, Manhattan
Little Italy, Manhattan: a Lower Manhattan neighborhood centered on Mulberry Street, once a 50-block Italian immigrant enclave, now a compact restaurant and festival district known for the Feast of San Gennaro, Ferrara Bakery, and Lombardi's pizzeria.
Little Saigon, Orange County
Little Saigon, Orange County: the largest overseas Vietnamese enclave, centered on Bolsa Avenue in Westminster and Garden Grove, California. A refugee-built district of nearly 200,000 Vietnamese Americans, home to Asian Garden Mall and a major voting bloc.