Neighborhoods

Character, housing stock, and price feel. Not rankings: the right neighborhood is the one whose trade-offs you can live with happily. More guides land regularly.

Downtown

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  West Village

  The prettiest streets in Manhattan, and the bill that comes with them

  Top of the market per square foot
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  Chelsea

  Galleries, the High Line, and the easiest place downtown to buy a condo

  Premium, peaking along the High Line
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  SoHo & Tribeca

  The biggest apartments in Manhattan, at the biggest prices

  The top of the downtown market, frequently the whole market

Uptown

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  Upper West Side

  Two parks, big pre-war apartments, and the most liveable family math in Manhattan

  Upper-middle; real space for the money by Manhattan standards
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  Upper East Side

  White-glove avenues, and the best value corridor in prime Manhattan east of Third

  Two markets: trophy pricing on the avenues, genuine value toward the river
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  Harlem

  Brownstones you can actually buy, in the last value story in Manhattan

  The accessible end of Manhattan ownership