Multiple points plotted via multiplottr.com
My NYC apartments 2001-2008:
West Village – 22 Jones Street Apt 3F, New York NY
Chinatown – 219 Grand Street Apt 1, New York NY
Carroll Gardens – 44 4th Place Apt 2, Brooklyn NY
Cobble Hill – 130 Dean Street Apt 1, Brooklyn NY
Chinatown – 154 Mott Street Apt 5B, New York NY
I rocked the NYC rental market and lived in 5 places over 7 years. While the neighborhoods seem like worlds apart, the greatest distance between them is only 4 miles. And once I left a neighborhood I rarely went back because I could draw an impressively small radius around my new home. From “Here is New York” (1949) by E.B. White:
“Every block or two, in most residential sections of New York, is a little main street. A man starts for work in the morning and before he has gone two hundred yards he has completed half a dozen missions: bought a paper, left a pair of shoes to be soled, picked up a pack of cigarettes, ordered a bottle of whiskey to be dispatched in the opposite direction against his home-coming, written a message to the unseen forces of the wood cellar, and notified the dry cleaner that a pair of trousers awaits call. Homeward bound eight hours later, he buys a bunch of pussy willows, a Mazda bulb, a drink, a shine — all between the corner where he steps off the bus and his apartment. So complete is each neighborhood, and so strong the sense of neighborhood, that many a New Yorker spends a lifetime within the confines an area smaller than a country village. Let him walk two blocks from his corner and he is in a strange land and will feel uneasy till he gets back.”
