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West Village
West Village: western Greenwich Village, Manhattan, with a pre-1811 off-grid street grid, 1969 historic district, Stonewall National Monument, gentrified upscale housing market, and Meatpacking District retail at its north end.
Westminster, Colorado
Westminster, Colorado: home-rule suburb of Denver and Boulder in Jefferson and Adams counties, incorporated 1911 from the Village of Harris; 116,317 residents (2020), 34 square miles, Standley Lake water supply, B Line commuter rail.
Westwood, Los Angeles
Westwood is a Westside Los Angeles neighborhood containing UCLA and Westwood Village, the 1929 Janss Investment Company shopping district. Landmarks include the Hammer Museum, Geffen Playhouse, and Regency Village Theatre.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is a Brooklyn neighborhood bounded by the East River, once a shipping and manufacturing center, annexed by Brooklyn in 1855 and heavily gentrified since the 1990s.
Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn
Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, on a narrow strip between Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, developed from 1849.
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
Woodland Hills is a neighborhood in the southwest San Fernando Valley, City of Los Angeles (ZIPs 91364/91367/91371, ~65,000 residents). Founded 1922 as Girard, renamed 1941; anchored by Warner Center, Westfield Topanga, and Ventura Boulevard.
Ybor City
Ybor City, also called Florida's Latin Quarter, is a National Historic Landmark district northeast of downtown Tampa founded in 1885-1886 by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and Ignacio Haya as a cigar-manufacturing town, once the Cigar Capital of the World.
Yorkville, Manhattan
Yorkville, Manhattan: Upper East Side neighborhood east of Third Avenue between 79th and 96th Streets, once New York's main German enclave, now a residential area served by the Second Avenue subway.