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Pelham Bay (neighborhood), Bronx
Pelham Bay is a residential neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx, New York, near Pelham Bay Park, the city's largest park. Known for its Italian-American community, two-family housing, and the 6 train's Pelham Bay Park terminus, it was never part of the historical Town of Pelham.
Philadelphia Badlands
Philadelphia Badlands: informal name for the Fairhill and West Kensington area of North Philadelphia, coined by narcotics police in the late 1980s for its open-air drug markets, later a Google Maps label controversy.
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida: unincorporated St. Johns County coastal community between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, home of TPC Sawgrass, THE PLAYERS Championship, and PGA Tour headquarters.
Portsmouth Heights
Portsmouth Heights is a residential neighborhood in Portsmouth, Virginia, an independent city in Hampton Roads. GNIS populated place 1497103 at 36.82098, -76.368832, elevation 3 ft, near Manor High School and Hodges Ferry Bridge.
Queen Anne, Seattle
Queen Anne is a hilltop Seattle neighborhood named for 1880s Queen Anne style homes, settled by David Denny in 1853, with over 50 city landmarks, the Counterbalance streetcar grade, Seattle Center, and Lower Queen Anne renamed Uptown in 2016.
Queens Village, Queens
Queens Village is a mostly residential neighborhood in eastern Queens, New York City, bordering Nassau County, known for single-family homes and its Long Island Rail Road station.
Queensbridge Houses
Queensbridge Houses, a NYCHA public housing development in Long Island City, Queens, opened 1939; the largest in the United States with 3,149 units, about 7,000 residents, Y-plan design by William F.R. Ballard, and home of rapper Nas.
Red Hook, Brooklyn
Red Hook, Brooklyn: peninsula neighborhood in southwest Brooklyn, once Dutch Roode Hoek (1636), a major port, home of the Red Hook Houses NYCHA development, isolated by the BQE with no subway, undergoing gentrification and coastal resiliency planning.
Reseda, Los Angeles
Reseda is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood in Los Angeles, founded 1912 as Marian and renamed Reseda around 1920 after the dye plant Reseda odorata; about 66,000 residents, G Line transit, postwar tracts.
River North
River North is a Chicago Near North Side neighborhood bounded by Chicago Avenue, Michigan Avenue, and the Chicago River. Formerly industrial (Smokey Hollow), it was renamed by developer Albert Friedman in the late 1970s and became a major gallery district, now known for theMART, nightlife, and dining.
Riverdale, Bronx
Riverdale is a leafy, affluent residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City, along the Hudson River. Known for Wave Hill, the Riverdale Historic District, and the Bronx's most expensive housing.
Riverside Drive (Manhattan)
Riverside Drive is a curving, partly landmarked avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side along the Hudson River, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted from West 72nd to West 181st Street.
Rockaway, Queens
Rockaway, Queens: neighborhoods on the 11-mile Rockaway Peninsula between Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic, from Far Rockaway to Breezy Point, with NYC's first legal surfing beaches, about 47,500 peninsula residents, and post-Sandy coastal defenses.
Rodeo Drive
Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills' three-block luxury shopping street between Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards, named for Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas; over 100 luxury brands, Fred Hayman's Giorgio boutique, Golden Triangle centerpiece, and a Pretty Woman film landmark.
San Pedro, Los Angeles
San Pedro is a Los Angeles harbor-area community and home of the Port of Los Angeles; an independent city from 1888, annexed in 1909 after the 1897 Free Harbor Fight made San Pedro Bay the official port.
Second's
Second's (SECOND) is a 9,000 sq ft private event venue on the second floor of the Hotel Eventi at 849 6th Ave, Manhattan, hosting weddings and corporate events with Laurent Tourondel catering, a 30-foot digital billboard, and a retractable roof.
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
Sheepshead Bay is a waterfront neighborhood on the Atlantic coast in southern Brooklyn, New York City, named for the sheepshead fish once abundant in its waters.
Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles
Sherman Oaks is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood in Los Angeles named for developer Moses Hazeltine Sherman, who subdivided 1,000 acres there in 1927; about 69,000 residents along Ventura Boulevard in Council District 4.
Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Silver Lake is a hillside Los Angeles neighborhood named for water commissioner Herman Silver and its 1906–1908 Mulholland reservoir, known for silent-film studios, modernist architecture by Neutra and Schindler, and early gay rights history.
Skid Row, Los Angeles
Skid Row, also known as Central City East, is a downtown Los Angeles neighborhood with the densest concentration of homelessness in LA County, several thousand residents on a few dozen blocks.
SoHo, Manhattan
SoHo (South of Houston Street) is a Lower Manhattan neighborhood known for its cast-iron architecture, 1973 historic district, artist-loft history, M1-5 zoning, and high-end retail, recently rezoned for housing.
South Beach
South Beach (SoBe) is the southernmost neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida, south of 23rd Street on a barrier island. Known for the Art Deco Historic District, listed 1979, Ocean Drive, Lincoln Road, and sea level rise exposure.
South Boston
South Boston (Southie), a Boston peninsula annexed in 1804, became the city's defining Irish American enclave, site of Dorchester Heights, the Evacuation Day parade, the 1970s busing crisis, and Seaport redevelopment.
South Bronx
The South Bronx is the area of the Bronx south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, known for 1970s urban decline, community-led rebuilding, and the birth of hip-hop.
South Jamaica, Queens
South Jamaica (NTA QN01) is a residential neighborhood in southeastern Queens, New York City, within Community District 12. Known for NYCHA's South Jamaica I and II houses, the 1973 Clifford Glover shooting, and recent affordable-housing projects like Baisley Pond Park Residences.
South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles, formerly called South Central, is a 50-square-mile region of 28 communities in Los Angeles with about 800,000 residents, once 80 percent African-American and now two-thirds Latino.
South Philadelphia
South Philadelphia is the area of Philadelphia south of South Street between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, known for the Italian Market, Mummers Parade, cheesesteaks, immigrant history, and the sports complex hosting the Sixers, Eagles, Flyers, and Phillies.
South Shore, Chicago
South Shore is Chicago community area 43, a lakefront South Side neighborhood from 67th to 79th Street, annexed in 1889, transformed from a middle-class white enclave to a predominantly Black community between 1950 and 1980.
South Side, Chicago
South Side, Chicago: largest of the city's three traditional sides, shaped by steel and meatpacking industry, the Great Migration, the Black Belt, and the Obama Presidential Center.
South Williamsburg, Brooklyn
South Williamsburg is the southern section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, home to the Satmar Hasidic community centered on Lee and Bedford Avenues and the Puerto Rican Los Sures area, more insulated from gentrification than North Williamsburg.