Best New York neighborhoods for families

Doorman buildings, school-district hunting, and a museum wall along the park. The east 80s are quieter than the listings imply.

Prospect Park, strollers, and food-coop politics that became a punchline and then a brand. The family neighborhood people mean.

Pre-war co-ops, the park, and a grocery on every other corner. Family default for people who still want a subway.

Court Street, Italian leftovers, and Gowanus condos at the edge. Cobble Hill and Red Hook share the official polygon.

The promenade, the court district, and the first suburb the ferry invented. Quiet money, stoops, and a skyline you do not own.

Polish bakeries, a waterfront that finally opened, and the overflow from Williamsburg without the L-train crush.

30th Avenue, Ditmars, and the last neighborhood where a one-bedroom still sometimes behaves. Greek, Egyptian, Brazilian, and a beer garden.

West 4th, brownstone streets that ignore the grid, and rents that assume you already live here. The postcard is the product.

The park, BAM, and brownstones that held value through every cycle. Clinton Hill is the next street over.

Block after block of brownstone, a food scene that caught up, and a scale the other Brooklyn names do not have.