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The LovelyNYC quiz

Which New York neighborhood are you?

Seven questions, no wrong answers, and one of 22 neighborhoods at the end, from the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights to the clam shacks of City Island. Then go and meet it: every result comes with where to start.

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It's Saturday, 10 a.m. Where are you?

All 22 possible answers

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Federal-era rowhouses with stoops and ivy on a quiet West Village side street in late afternoon light

Manhattan

West Village

Crooked streets, warm brick, and the city at its most tender.

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Washington Square Park with its marble arch and fountain, people gathered on the benches and around the chess tables

Manhattan

Greenwich Village

The arch, the chess tables, and a century of people arriving with ideas.

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Cast-iron building facades and fire escapes along a cobbled SoHo street in morning light

Manhattan

SoHo

Cast-iron facades, cobbled streets, and light that painters fought over.

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The High Line's elevated rail viaduct and skybridges passing through the brick Chelsea Market complex at 10th Avenue and 15th Street under a blue sky.

Manhattan

Chelsea

Galleries, an elevated garden, and the Hudson at the end of every street.

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A leafy West 76th Street block of ornate limestone and brownstone rowhouses beneath tall street trees on the Upper West Side.

Manhattan

Upper West Side

Brownstones, bagels, and Central Park as the front yard.

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Fifth Avenue's prewar towers rising above the Central Park treeline on the Upper East Side

Manhattan

Upper East Side

Museum Mile, Madison Avenue, and old New York keeping its own hours.

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St. Marks Place seen from Second Avenue in the East Village, with tenement buildings, shopfronts and passersby under a bright summer sky.

Manhattan

East Village

Tenements, pierogi, and a stubborn streak of the old downtown.

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A red-brick tenement with black fire escapes and the Tenement Museum shop at street level on the corner of Orchard and Delancey Streets.

Manhattan

Lower East Side

Pastrami since 1888, smoked fish since 1914, and tenement streets that fed every wave of New York.

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The curved stretch of Doyers Street in Chinatown at dusk, storefront signs lit along the narrow bend

Manhattan

Chinatown

Doyers Street's bend, dim sum rooms, and a market district that never stopped working.

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Dumbo lit up at night between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, seen across the East River

Brooklyn

Dumbo

Two bridges overhead, Belgian block underfoot, and the skyline across the water.

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Brownstone rowhouses with stoops and shade trees on a quiet Brooklyn Heights street

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Heights

America's first suburb, a promenade, and the skyline arranged just for you.

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The Williamsburg Bridge at dusk with the Manhattan skyline across the East River

Brooklyn

Williamsburg

Factories turned dance floors, a sugar refinery turned park, and Brooklyn's loudest waterfront.

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A Bushwick street lined with graffiti-covered warehouse walls, with industrial silos rising behind

Brooklyn

Bushwick

Warehouse walls painted top to bottom, wood-fired pizza, and tortillas still warm from the press.

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A row of Park Slope brownstones with high stoops under mature street trees in afternoon light

Brooklyn

Park Slope

Brownstone rows on a long hill, with Prospect Park waiting at the top.

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A lamplit path through autumn trees in Astoria Park beneath the steel arch of the Hell Gate Bridge, with the RFK Bridge glowing at sunset across the East River.

Queens

Astoria

Greek tavernas, a beer garden older than your grandparents, and bridges built like cathedrals.

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Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights at night, storefront signs and food carts glowing under the elevated 7 train

Queens

Jackson Heights

Momos under the 7 train, arepas after dark, and half the world within six blocks.

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Rowhouse stoops on a Strivers' Row block in Harlem with late afternoon light down the street

Manhattan

Harlem

Wide boulevards, Sunday gospel, and the Southern table served uptown.

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Two black steel railroad gantries stand on the paved waterfront plaza of Gantry Plaza State Park under a clear blue sky, with Midtown Manhattan's towers across the East River.

Queens

Long Island City

Gantry cranes, glass towers, and the single best sunset seat in the city.

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The railed walkway of Valentino Pier leading back toward Red Hook's red-brick waterfront warehouses in warm late-afternoon light.

Brooklyn

Red Hook

Cobblestones, warehouse barbecue, key lime pie, and Lady Liberty at the end of the pier.

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Moored sailboats and the low waterfront of City Island at golden hour, Long Island Sound beyond

Bronx

City Island

A fishing village at the end of the Bronx, breaded, fried, and eaten over the water.

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Italian grocery storefronts on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, cheeses and cured meats hanging in the windows

Bronx

Arthur Avenue (Belmont)

The Bronx's Little Italy, still measured in fresh ravioli and hanging provolone.

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Crowded Main Street in Flushing with stacked bilingual storefront signs and produce stands at the curb

Queens

Flushing

The city's biggest Chinatown, best eaten one food-court stall at a time.

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