10 Best Neighborhoods in NYC Tourists Don't Know About
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0:22- 1) Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
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1:41- 2) Jackson Heights, Queens
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2:34- 3) The Upper West Side, Manhattan
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3:33- 4) Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
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4:21- 5) Flushing, Queens Chinatown
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4:59- 6) Harlem, Manhattan
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5:44- 7) Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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6:33- 8) Hoboken, NJ
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7:10- 9) Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
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7:59- 10) Bushwick, Brooklyn
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8:45- Bonus) Long Island City, Queens
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Videos like this are why your channel is an indispensable source of information. Cuts out the fat and just loads up with details in concise fashion. Excellent as always!
Thank you for actually showing hidden gems, unlike other "cool nyc influencers"
Those “cool nyc influencers” are mid 20 year old transplants who moved here 2 years ago and only care about how the food looks via photo
Absolutely agree, as somebody who's lived in NYC for 15 years, these are all legit recommendations. 🙏 Thank you for sharing the real NYC and not fake Instagram places.
Hello Upper West Sider here, thank you for mentioning my neighborhood. I always say it is a hidden gem with all the brownstones, tree lined streets, local cafes and yes Riverside park which is where I go to bike, picnic, or just lay on the grass it is in my opinion enchanting there sitting on the rocks along the water looking up towards the GW Bridge, and the start of the Hudson Valley.
It’s videos like this that I always try to show my friends because so many of them have such a negative view on NY. Yes NY has its issues that desperately need to be fixed, however…..there are still so many amazing parts of the state just in general that deserved to be seen by locals and tourists. Whether it’s really affordable and good food, hidden tourist attractions, or scenic viewpoints…..there are actually a lot of good parts about NY that I think a lot of us locals tend to take for granted.
“No Olive Gardens” 🤣🤣
When we visited by NYC we stayed up on 94th upper West side on Broadway and it was the best decision we made,far enough away from midtown but great for food and going for a walk in the evening to wind down,friendly people great eating places highly recommend the upper West side
One of the best things about New York, every visit can always be a new experience…enjoyed this one 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Honorable mentions go to:
Astoria, Queens (One of the biggest Greek and Egyptian communities in America)
Belmont, The Bronx (Go to Arthur Ave for superb Italian food and the Bronx Zoo is nearby)
Washington Heights, Manhattan (Dominicans, great parks, and the GWB)
Sunset Park, Brooklyn (A huge Chinatown, Little Mexico and Arab-American community)
Elmhurst, Queens (just as diverse as Jackson Heights, with many cheap options for food)
These were all finalists actually! Astoria almost made it.
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nah stay out of belmont yu could get 💥 out there 7⃣
After watching your channel for some time, i get the sense that it's a little like this
Manhattan: hub of it all
Brooklyn: arts and culture
Queens: best international food
Bronx: under-the-radar spots
Staten island: relaxed pace
Jersey: unofficial borough #6
The Jersey part many wouldn’t agree 🤣🤣
Westchester County in my opinion is the “secret” wild card.
Absolutely agree with Hell's Kitchen, Flushing, Harlem, and Long Island City!!! Some of my personal favorite places in the city ... Love this video!
I feel that Hells Kitchen is a hybrid mix of very touristy tourists and also locals and transplants. Kind of like a salad.
@@ramencurry6672 it is, cuz you got hotels there that are a little cheaper than in the heart of midtown
Jon I love this TH-cam channel! I can't wait for my next visit to NYC in 2024.
I’m lifelong a native New Yorker and I love how well you represent and advertise our City- I absolutely agree with your choices- especially the Upper West Side , where I lived for several years.
Please keep up your great work!!
Upper West Side is where I would live if I could!
The final scene of the Woody Allen 1977 movie Annie Hall was on the Upper West Side on 63rd Street.
Great choices! I would also check out Fort Greene and Prospect Heights in Brooklyn and Ridgewood in Queens. Also Morningside Heights in Manhattan around Columbia.
As a Jersey native thank you for including us 😂
Great video. Thanks for highlighting all those wonderful neighborhoods.
Man, Jon... I've been watching since i think 2017 and i am still shocked and super pleasantly surprised that you still can come up with these amazing tourist guides and find hidden, not talked about food spots and attractions no one knows about. You are by far still, after all these years, one of my top favorite TH-camrs. Thank you for your dedication and hard work!!🙏😌
Wow, thank you!
@@HereBeBarr 😌you're very welcome!
Hi Jon
Cool video. I use to go to Brighton Beach when I was young. Go on the beach and have a good time.
DUMBO I like alot . Brooklyn Bridge Park is just plain beautiful. Williamsburg is OK I've gone up there so many times. Unfortunately I got bored out of it and sadly I lost 2 great friends that played kickball at McCarren Park.
I live in Sheepshead Bay the neighborhood is residential but is famous for the fishing boats and great restaurants.
I saw your buddy Greg giving a tour in the rain a couple of weeks ago on Roosevelt Ave.
I always stay in or near Times Square every time (only stay, don't sight see) I visit due to the convenience to the subway, but I never check out Hell's Kitchen. Thanks!!
Amazing thanks 4ur time efforts and the value information
Heading to NYC later this month. Hoboken and LIC was already on my list. Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade are truly my Happy Places. Such a beautiful area.
Went to nursing school in Hell's kitchen and ate some of the best food there. Worked in Flushing for most of my career and live a stone's throw away. Still go back to my favorite Chinese bakery. I've visited many of the areas you mention and this diversity is why New York is great.
I love this video. Excellent as always Jon.
I just discovered your channel and have been binging your vids for the last couple of days! Thanks for all the great information. Taking notes for my next trip to NYC in a couple of weeks.
8:20 I ❤the pink F- OFF neon sign in the bar....🤣🤣
hahahahaha I missed that.
Sheepshead bay has lots of seafood and you can go on fishing boats that you need to reserve.
Great area!
Your travel guide video always feels like a friendly chat with a fellow traveler. Your personal touch sets it apart. Speaking of travel essentials, have you seen the new v4 Bento Bag from NomadLane? It looks like a practical solution for wanderers like you.
Love your channel
you are peter parker of new york city❤
Used to live in Jackson Heights. The food choices are so vast it is hard to choose! And yes, Flushing is the best for Asian cuisine. In Harlem, 116th Street between Lexington and 3rd Ave., Cuchifritos has authentic Puerto Rican food.
Cuchifritos and their mofongo...makes me want to lay down and scream (in a good way)
I love the graffiti murals in bushwick..such amazing art there!
I am loving your videos! I am from Australia and we are planning a visit in 2025, I am taking many notes of different places to go and eat! If we see you around, we might just buy you a drink!
I agree with you on Brooklyn Heights. What a beautiful neighborhood!
This was an excellent video for planning ideas. Thank you
I have a particular fondness for Long Island City and Astoria. Both my parents were born and raised in Astoria and met at Long Island City High School in the 1940s. As a child growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, LIC and Astoria were a bit grimy with a bit of an edge but it was also a great neighborhood I felt safe in as a child. Of course today it is a bit too “upscale” and many of the neighborhoods from childhood are gone but it is still nice. Astoria Park is still as terrific today as it was when my parents were growing up in the 1930s and 1940s….thank you Robert Moses (even if he was a bit of a jerk) 😊
why is astoria park terrific?
@@alexiaromero5233 Because it is huge green space in a very densely populated area with a giant swimming pool, tennis courts, basketball courts, etc. I believe they may have also carved out space for a small dog park. Views are great right by the East River
Great Video
Brooklyn Promenade is one of, if not my favorite place in NYC (maybe Bryant Park)
The Upper West Side (including Riverside Park) is definitely a generally prettier and quieter area of NYC. Also, the House of Yes is awesome!
I visited Chicago in the winter a few years ago. A lot of the nice neighborhoods were almost empty and sparse. It felt so authentic and local. I was probably the only tourist. Really liked it.
In winter I’ll be in New York for 2 years and I hope it be a great and a peaceful experience
Nicely done ✔️
Thanks ✌
LIKE! This Long Island city park has a ferry station that takes you to Pier 11 (near Wall St) for $4
For sure stay far away from Times Square - it's just a place where hustlers and grifters try to shake down the tourists . For me go downtown or uptown for a different vibe ! Simply put don't try to do the typical tourist activities. On example is the Circle Line Boat tours to cost around $50.00. Ride the NYC Ferry boats for $4.00 that have routes as far away as the Throgsneck Bridge and Rockaway. They also go from midtown on the Hudson to Staten Island and up and down the East River.
Times Square also functions as a mall for locals though. There’s an Old Navy and Gap store. If you need to buy clothes for the kids and family, it’s a good spot for shoppers who are not tourists
Thank you. This vid is helpful. Looking forward to visiting in December!
Westchester County especially in the winter feels very local. I felt like the only tourist. It was fun
Nice video. Great info. Thanks and take care.
The Jackson Hole Diner in Jackson Heights is one of my personal favorites!
wow he is the best for NY travel guide
@tju2009Yes, he is the best 😅😊😂
I thought he was going to come out with a video on the flooding Park Slope received a few weeks ago.
Can't find the Staten Island video, but anyhow. We took the ferry over yesterday and spent some hours there. Exellent way to see the statue of liberty so close and even for free. We had lunch at SI fish & more, and you should try that. Well tasting food and nice atmosphere. Also a nice vintage store a bit higher in Victory blvd
I want to visit Dyker heights in December ❤🎄
I agree with your selections, I’ve visited all of these neighborhoods. A couple of more: Park Slope in Brooklyn for its beautiful brownstones, and Soho for the beautiful cast iron architecture.
I wouldn't call SoHo under the radar, even for a first-timer
@@jz4461 OK, true. A more under the radar area I found worthwhile is Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill/ Carroll Gardens close to downtown Brooklyn.Interesting walking streets.
@@whitbydude I can get behind that
Kew Gardens, Forest hills? Missed those!
This is a great list. I went to college near the promenade and it’s still one of my fav spots, also Red hook has amazing views and they think they have a new park, too.
Went to hs there...
Hi Jon, another great video. Will be visiting NYC in late November. Any restaurant suggestions you can provide for Thanksgiving?
I think some of the older fancy hotels will probably have a Thanksgiving menu
Who did almost all Manhattan by walk? It's huge!!! Brooklyn Brige one love. Dumbo was so surprise at 7 in the morning before I even know it has so funny name. Only one tip, don't use maps with routs and you will see real city
Jon, last week I watched On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando. All filmed in Hoboken NJ. The waterfront scenes have the ESB in the background. Quite interesting.
Hey Jon just wondering if Coney Island is worth visiting in the winter? My partner and I are coming to NYC for the holidays and wondering if Coney Island is closed over winter? Same query with the Hamptons Long Island over winter. Worth visiting?
Some parts of your video are featured on Gossip girl 😺
Lower East Side used to be my fav nieb when I lived in nyc in early 2000s. I visited in 2012 and was shocked to see families had moved into that area. Then I visited in 2018 and was shocked that there were tourists and hotels in the LES! If you dont like your neighborhood in nyc, just wait 10 minutes.
I stayed in Hell's Kitchen on my last trip and found a great breakfast place 1/2 block from my hotel.
well what's the name
Last time i walked around hells kitchen it was sketchy af homeless everywhere I thought I was gonna get robbed
When was that? I go there regularly right now and I’ve never felt that. It’s a great vibe, great food, great bars and a bohemian feel with alot of gay/trans people (and straight people too). Smells like good weed everywhere lol. Love it
How safe is it to walk by yourself around DUMBO? For example, from DUMBO to Borough Hall to the Transit Museum. Traveling soon, so would appreciate having that info. Thanks.
How about showing fort Greene some love don’t get me wrong I definitely recommend checking out these neighborhoods but fort Greene has some pretty cool spots too 1.BAM (Brooklyn Academy of music) has great performances and a movies theatre
2. Fort Greene park while not as big or as a interesting as Central Park or even prospect park it still interesting to check out it was also designed by the two people who designed central and prospect park it also has the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument
3. It has UrbanGlass s glass shop in Brooklyn which will have showings and sometimes have workshops
4. It has some interesting places to get food (I recommend deklab food hall which has some great food vendors just. Had an amazing Empana
So if you are planning a trip to NYC soon and if you have time I highly recommend you check out Fortgreene it may not as big or as flashy as Manhattan but it’s got heart and soul
good
pierogi 😋
Jackson Heights is goated 🐐
Queens is just a beautiful place
Upper West Side always has a special place in my heart too.
I love Williamsburg though, Jon 🥲 haha, but you’re right
Williamsburg is great, but well known internationally. You could say this neighborhood is like the "Williamsburg" of Stockholm and people would get an image of it.
@@HereBeBarr that’s a fair point, Jon
Have you been to the brownstone neighborhoods on the UES? Makes those in a Brooklyn seem like low income housing.
UES is gorgeous yes, was on my final list, top 12.
Still waiting for our part two to go back and get more pierogies 😆
Rudy’s is epic
Hell's kitchen 🎉 I like this area and so happy to be there once again in a few months
Any Halloween content coming regarding events, best scary haunted places to go??
I don't have any planned but see Blood Manor video from ActionKid or Village Halloween Parade details.
my man
I'm in Hoboken now debating on driving my GMC 3500HD to Manhattan I'm only concerned about parking
I lived on 49th and 9th in Hells Kitchen. Tourists go to 8th Ave and get scared off by all the strip clubs and turn back. But 9th Ave has the longest string of ethnic restaurants anywhere.
Hoboken ❤
Jon, do a video on nyc cannabis so tourists know where they should or shpuldnt buy, smoke, etc
i'm imagining Gen Z going to Williamsburg to play Sonic 1 on a arcade machine when it has 9189311 ports.
Sinatra was from Hoboken.
Gramercy park is nice to see. The Mayor's mansion is there.
Def a good one
Gracie Mansion? That's in Carl Schurz Park in Yorkville (Upper East Side).
Sorry. I was thinking of something rlse when I wrote this.
The mayor's mansion is near my sisters apartment, when she lived in nyc.
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You may want to walk around Tribeca and see where JFK Jr had lived, other stars live. There's a mix of food prices around that area.
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I would like to say that, even though times square is very very touristy. It is still worth a visit simply because there is no other place like it. That doesn’t mean you have to eat there, that doesn’t mean you have to buy stuff there, maybe you take a picture with a Disney character or two because you know when, and realm, maybe go see the naked cowboy. I think people are too polarized on Times Square. This probably is a controversial and maybe even even an unpopular opinion but I actually think times Square is more worth a visit than fifth Avenue. Come on, are you really gonna buy anything on fifth Avenue? I don’t even think there are any food trucks on fifth Avenue. of course I would still visit fifth Avenue, but if I had to choose one of the other, I’d probably go for Times Square.
Another comercial video where you can eat , too. Tnx for notihng
Love Hell’s Kitchen
You did NOT put Hoboken in there.
I would have personally had Sheepshead Bay over Brighton beach & somewhere in the list Washington Heights.
Sheepshead for the also Ukrainian culture and food strip along emmons Ave with a beautiful view of the boats along the bay.
WH for the highest vantage point in the city, parks like Fort Tyron park, the Sylvian Terrace and the little red lighthouse under the GWB.
Good content as always though!
Stop spending your hard earn money in restaurants. By the look of this video, people don't own a fridge, or stove, therfore, they eat out, because they can't cook at home.
Many Americans across the nation don’t cook much and rely on frozen food.
Hi John. Do you offer any NYC tours? Im hoping to come from UK in January 2024
I don't offer tours personally, I recommend Sarah Funk's tours.
@@HereBeBarr I would love to meet you if possible you're the Inspiration behind this trip. It's always been a dream to USA but never had the courage until I saw your videos
Just been to NYC. Great buildings, spaces, museums. After that its is a city of nastiness. People literally sh!tting in 42nd St and in side street gutters!!!!!! I SAW IT. Cars BLARING 'NEW YORKKKKKK' ALL THE TIME as though its something to be proud of, constantly blowing horns for no reason, drivers/e-bikers who just dont care about rules and pedestrians, people who think being loud makes them better than everyone else, Taxi drivers who CHOOSE their fares and leave you stranded. The constant homeless and mentally needy is a disgrace. New Yorkers exist to make money at any cost. NYC is great - a great shame! Certainly NOT a great world city. What a massive let down after waiting to go there all my life. I thought i'd be sad to leave - i was SO happy to get out of that nastiness but with great pics of the places that NYC want you to think is great about the place.
At least the city is occupied and has not turned into an empty ghost town. I visit St. Louis, Memphis and other cities throughout America. Many of them are empty ghost towns with empty streets and no pedestrians. Many tourists don’t want to visit an empty city so New York is one of the few cities left in America that actually has hustle and bustle activity.
This is lowkey kinda sad if this is what new york has to offer.