Ask anyone who lives in Manhattan why they like it and they ’ll mumble something about all the 24 - minute Duane Reades , the ability to totally forfend the G train , and the fact that there are six Shake Shacks . But when we ’re not brush you off with our easy access to shampoos and Warren E. Burger , we ’re busy wondering if our friend in other vicinity like the Bronx ( who already have respectable access to the city ’s good Italian and most beautiful parkland ) really do have the right idea . So , we go under out to discover the infrangible bad thing about 21 different Manhattan neighborhood , straight from the mouths of multitude who endure there .
Chelsea
“ The neighbourhood has become so sterile , and the gay epicenter has displace north to Hell ’s Kitchen . Eighth Ave in Chelsea is now Tai eatery and banks . ”
Chinatown
“ It ’s just so , SO dirty . And it smells to high-pitched heaven year - round . New York is n’t exactly CLEAN … but Chinatown is fucking nasty . ”
East Village
“ The East Village has been travel through a pretty serious Murray Hill - ificiation over the past decade . I do n’t heed the smell or the garbage as much as the popped leash and overall douchebaggery . ”
Financial District
“ There is absolutely nothing to eat , unless you require to slay South Street Seaport . So I recapitulate , there is dead nothing to eat . ”
Greenwich Village
“ Greenwich Village is wonderful , but the [ drunk ] NYU bookman , who get sick on the street , drive me screwball . Especially when I almost step in it . ”
Harlem
“ Harlem is still one of the most authentic neighbourhood in Manhattan . Yeah , that ’s right . An authentic neighborhood in MANHATTAN . But no matter that it ’s in this borough , once you say ANYONE you exist in Harlem , they will not follow visit you . ”
Hell’s Kitchen
Inwood
“ Inwood is lovely , but holiday are always a headache . topical anaesthetic set off fireworks and firecrackers into the wee small hours , and it ’s annoying as hell . ”
Kips Bay
“ Sirens from flame hand truck and ambulances , and car horns . But the high-risk are garbage trucks , which are like the modern mean solar day mastodont . They have this resonate deep howler that goes into the night and other morning . ”
Lower East Side
“ It ’s annoying as shit to get there , and once you are there it ’s no longer the Lower East Side . It has become fraternity central . Have you been there on a Friday or Saturday Nox ? A bar like Hair of the Dog does not belong to on the LES . It belong in Murray Hill . ”
Midtown
“ Unless your social biography happens between the 60 minutes of 9 and 6 , you will be traveling to other neighborhoods for anything fun . You also ca n’t eat after 6 , unless you ’re comfortable stockpiling sandwiches from Pret a Manger . ”
Midtown East
“ There ’s a fate of bridge dealings and the bars tend to be very bro - tastic . And it ’s loud . One time I was able to Shazam a song come from a car on 59th St all the means from my seam . ”
Morningside Heights
“ A couple thousand ( predominantly white ) kids literally living in a walled garden castle on a hill , looking down upon the ( preponderantly sinister ) Harlem communities . Also , no in particular salutary pizza anywhere . ”
Murray Hill
“ The lovely meeting point of Bellevue Hospital , the heli - pad , and the FDR . spend a penny for some really quiet Saturday mornings . Oh … and the stretch of 3rd Ave that has Joshua Tree , Caliente Cab , and Tonic . That ’s the axillary cavity of Manhattan right there . ”
SoHo
“ holidaymaker ! Tourists . tourist . ”
Times Square
take note : We literally could not find one person who lives in Times Square .
Tribeca
“ It has become Manhattan ’s first suburban area . It ’s pretty much all families . Nightlife is n’t passing great here either , save for a few dive bars or super expensive cocktail bars . There are also no ‘ cheap eats ’ in Tribeca , unless it ’s a sandwich at Puffy ’s Tavern , but even those are about $ 8 . ”
Upper East Side
“ The Second Ave tube . Always and forever . ”
Upper West Side
“ I ’m admirer with the stinker on the UWS . We know each other by name . ”
Washington Heights
“ Gentrification in Washington Heights is subtle , but in spades present . I curse I see a new ashen mortal in my ( formerly ? ) mostly Dominican construction every month , and as a result my monthly rent , which used to go up $ 25 per annum four years ago now survive up $ 100 , and I occupy I ’ll be price out in a year or two because I ’m not a finance bro or college pupil living off my parents in the ‘ burbs . ”
West Village
“ On weekend the neighborhood is unwalkable because of the people who pour in and out of bar and restaurants , making it somewhat insufferable for local . Oh , and it ’s basically NYU ’s campus west . ”
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Meagan Drillingeris a contributing author for Thrillist and think Manhattan is the new Brooklyn .
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