Kips Bay

Recent graduates infuse a youthful energy into this neighborhood, which lies just north of Gramercy Park and east of NoMad. While high-rises populate the avenues, a stroll through the side streets reveal classic brick row houses, townhomes, and one of the city’s last remaining wood carriage houses. Third Avenue’s boisterous bar scene shows no sign of slowing, but is tempered by NYU Langone’s gleaming medical campus and research center a few blocks away. Foodies flock to Kalustyan’s specialty market for hard-to-find ingredients from around the world, to the South Asian restaurants that earned a stretch of Lexington Avenue the moniker “Curry Hill,” and to Tom Colicchio’s restaurant Riverpark for farm-to-table fare with East River views.