Neighborhood Studies: Finding your favorite neighborhood can be academic

OCTOBER 30, 2008

The best schools add flavor to great neighborhoods

If you're looking for a neighborhood with a young, smart population and a culturally diverse, interesting, busy street scene to call home—choose a campus and move nearby.

Colleges and universities that are based, have branches, or even semester-study programs in New York City are always quick to point out the city's bounteous cultural and social landscape as a major draw for student life. Those attributes—a young, vibrant population, intellectually stimulating cultural offerings and 24-hour availability of necessities—have always been present here, and neighborhoods that are perfect for student life have acquired even more to make them great places to study, teach and live.

At Columbia/Barnard Universities, over 90 percent of students live in campus housing in or near the "Quad" at 116th Street and Broadway—but there's plenty of spillover all throughout Morningside Heights. In addition, top-rated medical schools make the area a choice for medical professionals and academics.

The bohemian roots of downtown's East, West and Greenwich Villages predated its current student influx, but they've absorbed it seamlessly. The NYU central campus at Washington Square in Greenwich Village makes a significant contribution to the creative activity in the surrounding neighborhoods. And Chelsea's internationally-celebrated and often-flamboyant art-world reputation is a perfect home for world-class design and fashion colleges like FIT and Parsons/ The New School For Design.

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