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In 2007, I took a break from Colorado and moved to Seattle for bit of metaphorical fresh air.  Having what basically amounted to no clue about anything in Seattle, my arrival was a bit, um, rough.  I didn't know which nabes I wanted to live in, and as such I basically settled for the first apartm...

Bedford-Stuyvesant has a storied history of conflict and cataclysmic change.  Ask any native New Yorker about Bed-Stuy and most of them will tell you that they will never set foot in the nabe.  This is most likely due to its violent history during the period following the death of MLK, through th...

Throughout The United States epic arts and musical career, usually no more than one or two cities could claim to be the center of all things daring, edgy, and different.  New Orleans with jazz in the early 1900's; New York City with music and art in the sixties; Seattle in the nineties, etc.  Tod...

Republished from a little while ago: As NYC's Fashion Week wrapped up in its new home at Lincoln Center, SoHo certainly held its own once again as the NYC nabe of understated glamour mixed in with a healthy dose of hipster chic.  Barbie and Ken look-alike models aside, people on the streets of th...

Introducing Clinton Hill, NYC.  Clinton Hill, Brooklyn has a reputation for diversity and is often thought hand in hand with Fort Greene in Brooklyn.  If you value diversity and urban living this is the place for you.  Affordable, but still very "real" compared with other New York Neighborhoods, ...

Hell's Kitchen in New York City has a reputation for being one of the affordable options left in Manhattan for New York City neighborhoods.  Some of the words NabeWise users have used to describe the area include: “Affordable” “Cheap Rent” “Dirty” “Real New York” “Up and coming” “convenient locat...

Norwood, NYC is a “hospital town.” -At its core is the large Montefiore complex. Medical students, doctors, and nurses hover around the buildings like bees to a hive, keeping the neighborhood busy and lively. Nearby is Jerome Avenue, a long retail strip where just about anything could be found at...