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#1Bed-Stuy
$2K ACS median rent
Block after block of brownstone, a food scene that caught up, and a scale the other Brooklyn names do not have.
- Walk index
- 100
- Safety index
- 71
- Published fit
- 78
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Compare official New York neighborhoods on ACS rent, walk, safety, schools, and commute. Rankings stay inside this city.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · NYPD Oct 2025 – Jun 2026 · OSM Sep 2026. ACS and NYPD retrieved 2026-09-01; OSM retrieved 2026-09-01. Editorial copy last revised Sep 2026.
Published walkable weights — same order as the table below. Fit is an in-house score, not a resident review.
$2K ACS median rent
Block after block of brownstone, a food scene that caught up, and a scale the other Brooklyn names do not have.
$3K ACS median rent
Doorman buildings, school-district hunting, and a museum wall along the park. The east 80s are quieter than the listings imply.
$3K ACS median rent
Pre-war co-ops, the park, and a grocery on every other corner. Family default for people who still want a subway.
$3K ACS median rent
West 4th, brownstone streets that ignore the grid, and rents that assume you already live here. The postcard is the product.
$3K ACS median rent
The Bedford stop, the waterfront towers, and a weekend that starts on Thursday. Still the default Brooklyn landing.
$2K ACS median rent
St. Marks to Tompkins, bars stacked on bars, and a residual punk that the brunch menus cannot quite kill.
$2K ACS median rent
30th Avenue, Ditmars, and the last neighborhood where a one-bedroom still sometimes behaves. Greek, Egyptian, Brazilian, and a beer garden.
$2K ACS median rent
Warehouses, murals, and a loft inventory that keeps replenishing. Cheaper than Williamsburg, louder than both.
$3K ACS median rent
Cast-iron and cobblestones, then quiet streets and art-storage money. Tourists on Broadway; actual residents one block over.
$2K ACS median rent
Court Street, Italian leftovers, and Gowanus condos at the edge. Cobble Hill and Red Hook share the official polygon.
$2K ACS median rent
The park, BAM, and brownstones that held value through every cycle. Clinton Hill is the next street over.
$3K ACS median rent
Polish bakeries, a waterfront that finally opened, and the overflow from Williamsburg without the L-train crush.
$3K ACS median rent
Cobblestones under the bridges, tech offices, and a park that photographs well. Downtown Brooklyn is in the same official unit.
$3K ACS median rent
Galleries, the High Line, and a waterfront that turned into towers. The gayborhood label stuck; the warehouses did not.
$4K ACS median rent
The trading-floor neighborhood that learned to be residential after 2001. Waterfront, chain groceries, empty on weekends.
$3K ACS median rent
Prospect Park, strollers, and food-coop politics that became a punchline and then a brand. The family neighborhood people mean.
$2K ACS median rent
Orchard Street, public housing, and new condos sharing the same blocks. Night-out density with daytime fruit stands.
$3K ACS median rent
The promenade, the court district, and the first suburb the ferry invented. Quiet money, stoops, and a skyline you do not own.
$3K ACS median rent
Waterfront towers, the 7 train, and a skyline that faces Manhattan. New-build default for people priced out of the island.
$2K ACS median rent
Brownstones, the Apollo, and a park at the north end of the island. Not a starter-kit neighborhood — the original one.
$2K ACS median rent
Roosevelt Avenue, the 7 train, and the densest food in Queens. Diversity is the amenity, not a slogan.
$3K ACS median rent
Ninth Avenue restaurants, Port Authority in earshot, and Hudson Yards glass at the south edge. Nightlife that still has walk-ups.
Schematic NTA map — Hudson on the left, East River down the middle, Brooklyn and Queens on the right. Click a block to open it. Distances on this drawing are not street geography. Adjacent blocks are not a claim that two neighborhoods share a border.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for New York city. Up 48% since 2014.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Figures are for the city place, household-weighted across all occupied rental units.
New York on this site uses neighborhood tabulation areas (NTAs) as the official-ish stats geography, then shows a relocator subset — not every NTA in the five boroughs. The Hudson sits west; Brooklyn and Queens sit across the East River on the sketch.
UES, UWS, DUMBO, Bed-Stuy, LIC, and Hell’s Kitchen are search aliases inside those NTAs. A neighbor on this drawing is not a subway stop you can walk in four minutes.
Not a best-of list. Four cuts of the same 22 official neighborhoods.
School-heavy
Nearby rating + calmer map
Lower ACS rent
Survey median, not a listing
Lower Part I rate
Fewer reports per 1,000 in this city set
Published fit uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same order for every reader. Fit is a number inside New York only.
| # | Neighborhood | Published fit | ACS median rent | Walk index | Safety index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bed-Stuy | 78 | $2,079 | 100 | 71 |
| 2 | Upper East Side | 76 | $2,817 | 73 | 67 |
| 3 | Upper West Side | 74 | $2,660 | 74 | 52 |
| 4 | West Village | 69 | $3,044 | 68 | 24 |
| 5 | Williamsburg | 69 | $2,549 | 72 | 48 |
| 6 | East Village | 62 | $2,399 | 53 | 43 |
| 7 | Astoria | 58 | $2,197 | 44 | 76 |
| 8 | Bushwick | 55 | $2,202 | 57 | 62 |
| 9 | SoHo / Tribeca | 54 | $2,995 | 58 | 0 |
| 10 | Carroll Gardens | 53 | $2,329 | 23 | 86 |
| 11 | Fort Greene | 51 | $2,487 | 33 | 57 |
| 12 | Greenpoint | 50 | $2,642 | 20 | 95 |
| 13 | DUMBO | 46 | $3,092 | 43 | 14 |
| 14 | Chelsea | 45 | $2,659 | 30 | 19 |
| 15 | Financial District | 45 | $3,501 | 47 | 5 |
| 16 | Park Slope | 42 | $3,043 | 0 | 100 |
| 17 | Lower East Side | 41 | $1,780 | 31 | 10 |
| 18 | Brooklyn Heights | 40 | $3,146 | 4 | 81 |
| 19 | Long Island City | 39 | $2,560 | 22 | 33 |
| 20 | Harlem | 38 | $1,516 | 28 | 38 |
| 21 | Jackson Heights | 38 | $1,861 | 3 | 90 |
| 22 | Hell's Kitchen | 32 | $2,529 | 5 | 29 |
ACS median gross rent mixes every occupied rental. Walk is an in-house OSM count, not Walk Score. Safety ranks Part I rates inside New York only.
Rent figures are ACS 5-year median gross rent (2020-2024, ACS 2024 5-year) mixed across unit sizes in New York, Kings, and Queens Counties. Harlem is the lowest median in this set at $1,516. That is a survey median, not this week’s asking rent for a one-bedroom.
Walk is an in-house index from OpenStreetMap groceries, cafes, parks, and transit stops inside the official polygon or within 800 meters of its centroid. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Safety ranks NYPD Part I rates (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026) inside this New York set only. A lower index means fewer Part I reports per 1,000 ACS residents relative to the other neighborhoods here — not a guarantee that a block is safe, and not a measurement of noise.
A nearby school rating is not an assigned campus. Missing ratings sit at the middle of the scale.
Commute minutes are typical weekday estimates to named job centers, not live traffic.
Boundaries are NYC Neighborhood Tabulation Areas 2020 (9nt8-h7nd). Crime counts are NYPD Complaint Data Current Year To Date (5uac-w243).
ACS and NYPD were retrieved 2026-09-01. OSM was retrieved 2026-09-01. Editorial pages on this site were last revised Sep 2026.
Sources: U.S. Census American Community Survey, OpenStreetMap, and this city’s police open data via the method page. NabeWise is published by NabeWise Media.
How the New York number is built — not a grade of the place.
New York on this site uses neighborhood tabulation areas (NTAs) as the official-ish stats geography, then shows a relocator subset — not every NTA in the five boroughs. The Hudson sits west; Brooklyn and Queens sit across the East River on the sketch.
Harlem has the lowest ACS 5-year median gross rent in this set at $1,516 (2020-2024 survey). A median mixes every occupied rental. It is not this week’s one-bedroom.
Mapped groceries, cafes, parks, and transit stops inside the official neighborhood or within 800 meters of its centroid. Bed-Stuy currently leads the default walkable ranking. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Official neighborhoods only — 22 on this map. UES, UWS, DUMBO, Bed-Stuy, LIC, and Hell’s Kitchen are aliases on the NTAs in this set. The schematic map is for clicking, not for measuring a shared border.
Housing is ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024). Crime is NYPD Part I for Oct 2025 – Jun 2026. OSM amenities were snapshotted 2026-09-01. Editorial copy on these pages was last revised Sep 2026.
No. A number here is a rank inside these 22 official neighborhoods, not a grade you can carry to another city.
Six axes — safety, schools, walk, cost, vibe, and optional commute — scaled only inside New York, then weighted. With default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget, Bed-Stuy is the current top match (78 published fit). Rankings never jump a city line. The formula is on the method page.
Full formula on the method page.