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Long Island City
Long Island City (LIC) is the westernmost neighborhood of Queens, New York City, across the East River from Manhattan, noted for rapid development, waterfront parks, and one of the city's highest concentrations of art galleries.
Los Feliz, Los Angeles
Los Feliz is a Los Angeles neighborhood between Griffith Park and Barnsdall Art Park, named for Rancho Los Feliz, home to Griffith Observatory, Hollyhock House, and high-income, highly educated, majority-renter demographics.
Lower East Side
The Lower East Side is a Manhattan neighborhood bounded by 14th Street, the Bowery, and the East River, best known as the first American home for successive waves of immigrants.
Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan, also called Downtown Manhattan, is the southern part of Manhattan, New York City, generally defined as everything below Houston Street, and one of the largest business districts in the United States.
Madison Avenue
Madison Avenue is a one-way northbound avenue in Manhattan, New York City, running from Madison Square to the Madison Avenue Bridge. Known for luxury retail on the Upper East Side, bus lanes, and as shorthand for the advertising industry.
Magnificent Mile
The Magnificent Mile, or Mag Mile, is Chicago's 13-block upscale shopping and hotel corridor on North Michigan Avenue between the Chicago River and Oak Street, named by Arthur Rubloff in the 1940s and known for landmark architecture.
Mānoa, Hawaii
Mānoa, Hawaii: residential valley and neighborhood of Honolulu, Oʻahu, home of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (founded 1907, moved to valley 1912); known for the 1901–1933 trolley, early 1825 sugar planting, flooding, and high housing prices.
Mar Vista, Los Angeles
Mar Vista is a residential Westside neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, within the Palms-Mar Vista-Del Rey Community Plan area, east of Venice, north of Culver City, with low crime rates and active apartment development.
Marble Hill, Manhattan
Marble Hill, Manhattan: the only Manhattan neighborhood on the North American mainland, cut off by the 1895 Harlem River Ship Canal and attached to the Bronx by 1914 landfill, yet legally part of New York County under a 1984 statute.
Marina del Rey, California
Marina del Rey, California: unincorporated Los Angeles County community and man-made small-craft harbor between Venice and Playa del Rey, dedicated 1965, roughly 4,600-4,800 boat slips, County-owned with ground-lease housing.
Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Manhattan neighborhood at the northern West Village and southern Chelsea, once home to over 200 slaughterhouses, now a retail and nightlife district with the Whitney Museum, High Line, Meatpacking BID (2015), and planned Gansevoort Square redevelopment.
Metairie, Louisiana
Metairie, Louisiana: unincorporated census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, just west of New Orleans. Largest parish community, 143,507 people in 2020; name from French métairie, a sharecropped farm on Metairie Ridge.
Midtown Atlanta
Midtown Atlanta is a district of Atlanta, Georgia, and the city's second-largest business district, known for its arts venues, including the Fox Theatre and the High Museum of Art.
Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan: Manhattan's central business district between roughly 34th and 59th Streets; the largest US business district, anchored by Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and the Empire State Building.
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
Miracle Mile, also known as the Miracle Mile District, is a shopping and museum district on Wilshire Boulevard in central Los Angeles, developed in the 1920s by A. W. Ross and anchored by Museum Row.
Mission District, San Francisco
Mission District, San Francisco: east-central neighborhood named for Mission Dolores (1791), the city's oldest building. Center of Latino culture, murals, Calle 24 district, and gentrification battles.
Mulberry Street (Manhattan)
Mulberry Street, Lower Manhattan thoroughfare and historic heart of Little Italy, now partly Chinatown; home of the Feast of San Gennaro since 1926 and the Special Little Italy District since 1977.
Near North Side, Chicago
The Near North Side is one of Chicago's 77 community areas, directly north of the Loop, containing the Gold Coast, Old Town, River North, and Streeterville.
North Hills, Los Angeles
North Hills is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, formerly Mission Acres (c. 1915) and Sepulveda (1927), renamed North Hills in 1991–1992; bounded by Balboa, Lassen, Sepulveda, and Roscoe, ZIP 91343.
North Hollywood, Los Angeles
North Hollywood is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, formerly Toluca (1887) and Lankershim (1896), renamed 1927, annexed 1923, home to the NoHo Arts District and the B Line's northern terminus.
North Peoria
North Peoria names two places: the suburban northern section of Peoria, Illinois (Richwoods, The Knolls, median sold $222,000), and the master-planned desert growth area of Peoria, Arizona (Vistancia, The Trailhead).
North Stamford
North Stamford: low-density residential neighborhood in Stamford, Connecticut, north of the Merritt Parkway; about 18,201 residents, one- to three-acre single-family zoning, high property values, and active zoning disputes.
Northridge, Los Angeles
Northridge is a neighborhood in northwest San Fernando Valley, city of Los Angeles, about 22 miles from downtown, anchored by CSUN, formerly Zelzah and North Los Angeles, and site of the 1994 magnitude 6.7 earthquake.
Northwest (Washington, D.C.)
Northwest Washington, D.C.: largest of the city's four quadrants, about 42 percent of the land, including Georgetown, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, and Rock Creek Park.
Ocean Beach, San Diego
Ocean Beach (OB) is a coastal San Diego neighborhood on Point Loma, known for its 1966 concrete pier, Dog Beach, Newport Avenue's independent shops, a 30-foot height limit, and a $170–190 million pier replacement project.
Pacific Beach, San Diego
Pacific Beach (PB), San Diego: primarily residential coastal community between the Pacific Ocean, Mission Bay, and La Jolla. Gridded Pueblo Lands, built out after 1930; home to the 1927 Crystal Pier and a contested 240-foot tower proposal.
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
Pacific Palisades is a wealthy coastal Los Angeles neighborhood founded in 1922 by Methodists, home to the Getty Villa, largely destroyed by the January 2025 Palisades Fire.
Park Avenue
Park Avenue is a wide boulevard on Manhattan's East Side in New York City, running from 34th Street to 132nd Street, known for its green malls and luxury buildings.
Park Slope
Park Slope is a Brooklyn, New York neighborhood west of Prospect Park, known for 19th-century brownstones, historic districts designated 1973-2016, and pronounced gentrification, with a median household income of $173,899.
Peachtree Street
Peachtree Street is Atlanta's main north-south thoroughfare, named for the Muscogee Creek settlement Standing Peachtree (Pakanahuili). It began as a Native American trail, spawned 71 Peachtree-named streets, and fronts landmarks like the Fox Theatre and High Museum.