What is the hip, young neighborhood in your city?

There isn’t one, except maybe the high school.

Buffalo, NY- The abercrombie/ party crowd is on the strip, which is a street downtown with about 30 different bars and clubs. The alternative artsy crowd is found in Allentown. I go to both depending on my mood.

Regarding answers like PupnTaco’s, can we refrain from answering the question if you don’t actually have an answer? I’m not asking whether such a neighborhood exists in your city/town and want to know if you do or do not have one. This is more like, if you live in a city that has one (or many) of those neighborhoods, let me know what it is.

Sorry, it just sucks getting excited to see that someone has answered my question and being disappointed to find that someone didn’t actually answer the question. Thanks for understanding.

@elijahsuicide – but in what city?

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New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town (if you’re rich)!

For the unmarried hipsters, it’s Williamsburg & Greenpoint, Brooklyn; the Lower East Side, Inwood and parts of Washington Heights and Harlem in Manhattan; Astoria and Long Island City, Queens.

For young hipsters who are married with children, it’s Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Boerum HIll, Cobble Hill and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and a bit for Fort Greene. DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass), Brooklyn is for the really rich hipster, married, young or not. Manhattan’s not as hip, it just has a lot of money.

The Bronx and Staten Island aren’t seen as enclaves of the hip. I do not live in a “hip” neighborhood.

I added my city. Sorry.

@Trustinglife – well she said that the party crowd is on the strip, and the artsy crowd is in Allentown. At first I thought of Allentown, Pa, but then I was confused because it sounded like she was referring to Allentown as a neighborhood in some larger city.

Perhaps we could all clarify which cities we live in first? Aprilsimnels answer is spot on for the type of thing I’m looking for.

@swingliner: that was my answer, there really isn’t one. You said “Every city has at least one neighborhood…”

I’m here to tell you there’s nothing hip where I live.

Unfortunately.

East side of Lexington

in chicago,
1. river north
2. restaurant distribution district around randolph
3. wrigleyville
4. roscoe village
5. damen corridor
6. lincoln park
7. hyde park (where obama used to live)
8. bronzeville

@PupnTaco – okay, well thanks for your answer anyway. For the future though, if that’s the case (there is none where you live), just don’t worry about letting me know because that’s not what I’m interested in as far as this discussion goes.

@Trustinglife good guess though :-)

Harvey, IL (south side of Chicago)

@swingliner: OK, I’ll remember that. Anything else I can do for you?

@steve6: steve. steve. dude. come on. harvey illinois?

I was kidding. I was born there.

@charliecompany34 – Everyone from my uni who moved to Chicago after graduation moved to bloody Lincoln Park. Still the place to be, is it, after all these years? Heh.

@april: yup, still the place to be. you walk to everything from the lake to the zoo the ethnic restaurants to your car that is parked three blocks away, but hey, you live in lincoln park.

Heh, in Culemborg I think it’d just be the city centre, but that doesn’t really fit the definition since it’s so small :P. I’ll be moving to Utrecht in some time anyway, so I guess I’ll get to know this area there in time. Though, it being a real students’ city, I guess it’s almost everywhere :P

ft lauderdale or miami in south florida i guess. the high school kids tend to hang out in lauderdale, but i’m pretty sure the older hip kids hang out there too haha.

In Placitas, NM, I guess you could say the local grocery store is the gathering place for the young.

Here, there are no street lights or stop lights; just coyotes, mountains, mesas, sunsets, and sunrises.

Oh, did I mention rattle snakes?

SF would have to be the mission… and the haight….and maybe the panhandle too.
In Burlington, VT, where I’m from, I would have to say anything near downtown, but streets that lots of college kids live on are Isham (which is also how you figure out if someone is from the town or not. College kids pronounce it wrong. Lurve to the first one who tells me how to say it correctly!!), Grant, Pearl, off Winooski ave…
Concord, NH, where my mom lives…well thank god i don’t live there anymore but maybe near downtown?? I have no idea.

I like to hang around the high school areas of Sunny SoCal, The Bay Area, Chester and Cambridge England, San Antonio Texas, and KCK, because there are helpful laid back people there, and no pushy bossy noobs.

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Philly: Northern Liberties and Manyunk. Of course, the bar hopping happens from Center City to Society Hill. I’ve seen pictures indicating that some people do very nasty things in some really swanky places.

@daloon: When did Manyunk get hot? It used to be pretty gritty when I was there.

@gailcalled: maybe in the last five or ten years. Main street is chock full of fancy restaurants and pubs and whatnot. They’ve got a farmers market, and a new path along the canal, and the bike path. College kids and yuppies now live there (tension with the locals as you might expect), and visit there a lot. The annual bike race (that used to be the national championship) has given the place name recognition and cache for it’s steep, steep hill. If you live on Leverington, you are hotter than a supermodel.

if we could always control how people answered our questions, life would be so easy, and not the life of fluther

In Chicago, the young, self conscious, and poor are flocking to Logan Square to stay ahead (or at least below the crest of the wave) of the blue line wave of gentrification. For all practical purposes, Lincoln Park is no longer hip in the spirit of this discussion, rather it is a college neighborhood and also very popular with money and those who rub elbows with it. Wicker Park (and environs) has in some ways become the new Lincoln Park.

In St. Louis (if Chicago is Manhattan and Brooklyn, then St. Louis is the Bronx and Queens) the entire southside is considered the hip area with its cheap housing and some of the most authentically urban neighborhoods in the midwest outside of Chicago. Tower Grove South in the central part of the southside is probably the most popular hip neighborhood with a balance of hip parents and hipsters.

Also – Manchester Ave between Kingshighway and Vandeventer are where the best and highest concentration of yipster bars are, even if the neighborhood looks industrial and rough.

Lincoln, Nebraska: Near South is the quintessential hipster neighborhood.

Hey, you asked!

in cleveland ohio, the crunchy, friendly and genuine hipsters live in ohio city. it also attracts some dumb bro types on the weekends though cause it’s so close to the city and has good bars. it’s a little rough but it’s cheap and really close to the city. lakewood is for crusty burnout hipsters, and a little more suburban and also affordable. coventry is an area on the west side which is being gentrified a lot, etc. but it has some of the best restaurants.

in pittsburgh, the most affordable cool place to live is in the mexican war streets. it’s near a lot of museums and it a really pretty area. the south side flats is a little more expensive but very cool. lawrenceville is also on the up and up.

@arsenal I was told to visit Wicker Park a few years ago and I loved it. Though I’m not extremely familiar with the area, it reminded me a bit of Uptown Minneapolis. I love Chicago though. I think the majority of city loving Minnesotans do though. Big city appeal plus the midwest nice.

Hermosa Beach and Culver City are pretty hip near Los Angeles but there are a lot of cities in southern California that are popular.

in milwaukee, the s. Kinnickinic (KK) neighborhood, and Riverwest are the new bohemian redoubts. Also, the southern parts of parts of Walkers Point/5th Ward. Brady Street, the city’s original bohemian quarter is now “done” (ready completely gentrified)

@Donovan2 – Wow. In my day, anything below Wisconsin Avenue was seriously uncool. Brady Street was only just becoming a hip area. But I was lived in the ghetto on the West Side back then, so I would’ve been happy to live anywhere outside the bounds of West Capitol Drive/North 60th Street/West Wisconsin Avenue/The Milwaukee River.