MICRONEIGHBORHOODS: HOW SMALL CAN A NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOOD BE?

MICRONEIGHBORHOODS: HOW SMALL CAN A NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOOD BE? When I first moved to New York City, the day before the bar examination, my friend Tony Riolo described the block where he lived, the long (one sixth of a mile) block on Thirteenth Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. There were a cluster of buildings where Puerto Ricans lived, a cluster where Ukrainians lived, a cluster where gentrification was taking place, and then the corner of Thirteenth Street and Third Avenue, where Tony claimed you could buy anything: “liquor, girls, boys, drugs….” I found that there were many other blocks like that in New York City—in Greenwich Village, say, or the Upper West Side—which consisted of several little neighborhoods.