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Sterling, Virginia
Sterling, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place in Loudoun County near Dulles Airport; once the railroad village of Guilford (renamed Sterling in 1887), it grew after 1959 with Sterling Park, Loudoun's first planned community, and had 30,337 residents in 2020.
Studio City, Los Angeles
Studio City is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, named for Mack Sennett's 1927-1928 film studio at Ventura and Laurel Canyon boulevards, later Republic and CBS, now Radford Studio Center.
Summerlin, Nevada
Summerlin, Nevada: a 22,500-acre master planned community on the western Las Vegas Valley edge, begun 1990 on Howard Hughes land, named for Jean Amelia Summerlin, home to about 127,000 residents.
Sutton Place, Manhattan
Sutton Place is a small upscale residential neighborhood in Midtown East, Manhattan, between 53rd and 59th Streets along the East River. Also a historic street name; fashionable since the 1920s socialite enclave of Vanderbilt and Morgan townhouses.
Tarzana, Los Angeles
Tarzana is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood in Los Angeles, named for Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose 1919 Tarzana Ranch occupied the site; formerly Runnymede III, it has hillside estates and Ventura Boulevard commerce.
Tempe Junction
Tempe Junction is a neighborhood of Tempe, Arizona, comprising nine census tracts and about 43,000 residents, also the name of a historic railroad junction completed in 1887.
Tenderloin, San Francisco
The Tenderloin is a dense, low-income San Francisco neighborhood bounded by Market, Van Ness, Powell, and Post streets, known for historic SRO hotels, the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot, the world's first legal transgender district, and persistent open-air drug markets.
Thai Town, Los Angeles
Thai Town is an officially designated Thai cultural and commercial district in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, along Hollywood Boulevard, designated on October 27, 1999 after an eight-year Thai CDC campaign.
The Ironbound
The Ironbound is Newark, New Jersey's densest neighborhood, bounded by rail tracks, known for its Portuguese, Brazilian, and Latino communities, Ferry Street restaurants, and environmental justice battles.
Third Ward, Houston
Third Ward, Houston: historic African American neighborhood created after the city's 1836 founding, home of Emancipation Park (1872), Texas Southern University, University of Houston, and Project Row Houses, now facing rapid gentrification.
Times Square
Times Square, formerly Long Acre (Longacre) Square, is the Broadway-Seventh Avenue entertainment hub in Midtown Manhattan, renamed in 1904 for The New York Times' Times Tower, home of the New Year's Eve ball drop since 1907 and pedestrian plazas since 2009.
Toluca Lake, Los Angeles
Toluca Lake, Los Angeles: a 1.22-square-mile San Fernando Valley neighborhood founded in 1923 around a private five-acre lake, straddling the Burbank city line, with Lakeside Golf Club, a Riverside Drive village, and median home prices near $1.2–2.1 million.
Tribeca
Tribeca (Triangle Below Canal) is a Lower Manhattan neighborhood, formerly Washington Market, an industrial loft district resettled by artists in the 1970s and protected by four NYC historic districts designated 1991-1992 plus a 2002 extension.
Tropicana Las Vegas
Tropicana Las Vegas, the "Tiffany of the Strip," was a 1957 mob-era hotel-casino at Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard; closed April 2, 2024, imploded October 9, 2024, and replaced by the Athletics' ballpark.
Turtle Bay, Manhattan
Turtle Bay is a Midtown East Manhattan neighborhood, roughly East 43rd to 53rd Streets, Lexington Avenue to the East River, named for a filled-in cove; home to the United Nations headquarters and Turtle Bay Gardens.
Ukrainian Village, Manhattan
Ukrainian Village, also called Little Ukraine, is a Ukrainian enclave in Manhattan's East Village centered on East 6th-7th Streets and Second Avenue, settled from Galicia since the 1870s, anchored by St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church (1905), the Ukrainian Museum, Veselka, and the Ukrainian National Home.
Union Square, Manhattan
Union Square, Manhattan: historic 6.51-acre park at Broadway and Fourth Avenue, established 1833, site of the first Labor Day parade (1882), National Historic Landmark 1997, home of the GrowNYC Greenmarket.
Upper East Side
Upper East Side: Manhattan neighborhood from East 59th to East 96th Street, Fifth Avenue to the East River, with Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, and Yorkville; known for Museum Mile, Central Park frontage, and the Second Avenue Subway.
Upper West Side
The Upper West Side is a residential neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the Hudson River, known for prewar apartment buildings and cultural institutions.
Uptown, Chicago
Uptown is Chicago community area #3 on the North Side lakefront, once an entertainment district rivaling the Loop, now a diverse neighborhood known for the Uptown Theatre, Green Mill, and Argyle Street's Vietnamese corridor.
Van Nuys
Van Nuys is a neighborhood in central San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, founded February 22, 1911 via a lot auction, annexed in 1915, home to the Valley Civic Center, Van Nuys Auto Row, and converging Metro light rail and subway projects.
Venice, Los Angeles
Venice, Los Angeles: coastal neighborhood founded 1905 by Abbot Kinney as Venice of America; annexed to LA in 1925; known for its canal historic district, 1.5-mile boardwalk, and sea level rise exposure.
Villanova, Pennsylvania
Villanova, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated Main Line community in Lower Merion and Radnor townships, named for Villanova University (founded 1842); affluent suburb, ZIP 19085, SEPTA rail hub, new Cabrini Campus.
Wall Street
Wall Street: eight-block lower Manhattan street named for a 1653 Dutch stockade; metonym for US finance, home of the NYSE (Buttonwood Agreement, 1792), Federal Hall, and the 1929, 1987, and 2008 crashes.
Wallabout (historical)
Wallabout, a historic Brooklyn neighborhood around Wallabout Bay (Waal-bogt), settled by Walloons from 1624, site of British Revolutionary prison ships, the 1801 Brooklyn Navy Yard purchase, and Wallabout Market (1884-1941).
Washington Heights, Manhattan
Washington Heights is a northern Manhattan neighborhood between roughly 155th Street and Dyckman Street, named for Revolutionary-era Fort Washington, developed after the 1904-06 subway extension, and known for Fort Tryon Park, The Met Cloisters, and its large Dominican community.
Watts, Los Angeles
Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California, formerly an independent city (incorporated 1907, annexed 1926). Known for the Watts Towers built by Simon Rodia and the 1965 Watts Riots, it is now a densely populated, lower-income area with a Latino majority.
West Philadelphia
West Philadelphia, or West Philly, is a largely residential section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, across the Schuylkill River from Center City, known for the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.
West Roxbury
West Roxbury is a residential neighborhood in southwest Boston, Massachusetts, annexed in 1874, once home to the Brook Farm Transcendentalist community, known for single-family homes, Centre Street shops, and Millennium Park.
West Seattle
West Seattle is a peninsula of southwest Seattle, Washington, first settled at Alki Point in 1851, an independent city from 1902 until annexation by Seattle on July 24, 1907 (vote 325-8), known for its bridges and distinct identity.