Best streets in Kips Bay
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Ranked 1st best street in Kips Bay
"Family-Oriented and Relaxing"
- vegashaley
I have friends with kids living here, and I have to say that it's one of the best places in Manhattan to relax and raise a family. When you are coming from someplace like Boston or the suburbs, and yo...
Ranked 2nd best street in Kips Bay
"From Bowery to the Bronx"
- Cferro02
Only 1 street away from the Lexington Avenue 4/5/6, Third Ave is a place filled with food, fun and plenty to do. Whether it's going out all night at the bars strewn along Third Ave. between 2nd St.-17...
Ranked 3rd best street in Kips Bay
"Great Downtown: Awful Uptown"
- JenMac
2nd Avenue is really sleepy and aesthetically boring uptown but as you move down it becomes really lively and interesting. The UES is one of the most boring areas in town, but the East Village is fan...
Ranked 4th best street in Kips Bay
"Convenient, delicious, and loud"
- dberkowitz
It's a lovely, convenient stretch, most populous between the Park Ave subway and 2nd Ave, where it dead ends at some apartment buildings before continuing on to the East River. On the 2nd to Park Ave...
Ranked 5th best street in Kips Bay
"Busy during the day"
- andiefrancese
East 32nd Street is an extremely busy area during the day. Many businesses and offices are located in the area and thus there is heavy foot traffic during the day. Because of the office population the...
Ranked 6th best street in Kips Bay
"Old hotel row"
- JenMac
The block between Broadway and 5th is mostly grand, old hotels. These hotels don't get any love anymore ... but, I think they should. The corner of Broadway and 31st is the former Grand Hotel. It u...
Ranked 7th best street in Kips Bay
"Not too shabby"
- JenMac
East 30th does have some really lovely parts. It mixes in just about every type of person. NYU medical is right on the river at 30th so there are a lot of students, business professionals, rich peop...
Ranked 8th best street in Kips Bay
"Apartments near hospital"
- torrieappel
Mt. Carmel Pl is a small loop near Bellevue Hospital. It is mostly apartments, which are fairly nice but it can be noisy due to all the ambulances and activity around the hospital. Overall it seemed t...
Ranked 9th best street in Kips Bay
"East 29th Street"
- Macsizzle
East 29th Street is mainly residential, but had a few great bars and restaraunts. It’s a pretty young area of town, lots of post-graduate students and young professionals. It’s not as family oriented...
Ranked 10th best street in Kips Bay
"One good bar and nothing else"
- JenMac
30th in Kip's Bay starts off with the NYU Medical Center on 1st Avenue. This is slightly less creepy as having Bellevue down your street -- but, then again, Bellevue is only a few blocks down. Livin...
Unranked Streets
"Sickies, Crazies, and a Deli"
- JenMac
1st Avenue starts in Kip's Bay at 23rd and it looks an awful lot like an ordinary, busy avenue. The avenue leading up to 25th is taken up by real tourist draws like a medical center, the NYU school o...
"A footbridge"
- JenMac
25th Street Branch is just a pedestrian bridge over FDR that links 25th street to the East River. You can't, obviously, live on a footbridge so there's not much to talk about, but it is nice that the...
"Schools and Hospitals"
- JenMac
25th Street starts off in Kip's Bay at the East River. The East River isn't exactly the Hudson but it's a body of water which is always nice to look at when your other option is trash and cars. Ther...
"Crazies and religion"
- JenMac
East 27th starts off at Bellevue Hospital which, to me, is kind of creepy. Yeah, it's just a hospital, but it's famous for its Psych ward. It's the only reason people ever refer to Bellevue . . . wh...
"Entrance street to Asser Levy Park"
- JenMac
Asser Levy Place is the entrance street off of 23rd into Asser Levy Park. Asser Levy was a Jewish kosher butcher who won a lot of tolerance victories for the Jewish community against the Stuyvesants...
"A midtown kind of street"
- JenMac
34th starts off in Kips Bay at the NYU Hospital. I'm not a huge fan of hospitals or living by them, but this particular block has a really cool set of gardens that are open to the public and made esp...
"Lots to eat and study -- if you're into Danny Meyer and busi..."
- JenMac
Not much to remark about this street. It's pretty much overrun with schools, park and restaurants. Not that that's a bad thing . . .
East 24th starts out at Madison Square Park. As far as downtow...
"Take the Drive part literally"
- JenMac
There's not a whole lot to say about FDR in really any neighborhood and in Kips Bay I feel like there's even less. FDR is more of a highway than a street. So, you can't live on it and even if you co...
"Cool looking because it's old; not so cool looking because i..."
- JenMac
Broadway Alley is a tiny alley between 26th and 27th that most people that have lived here forever don't even know about. It's a pretty cool looking alley but I wouldn't want to live here. There are...