October 2, 2007
North Beach One of the Top Places To Call Home
It really is all about the other side of Market Street now.
Along with neighborhoods that we've heard of before like Pike Place in Seattle; Hillcrest in San Diego; and Park Slope in Brooklyn, N.Y. -- our xenophobia runs deep, folks -- as well as hoods that we've never heard of such as Chatham Village, Pittsburgh; Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, D.C.; Elmwood Village in Buffalo, N.Y.; and Old West Austin in Austin, our very own historic North Beach arrondissement was named one of the top 10 U.S. neighborhoods by the American Planning Association.
The study was based on this neighborhood having the cutest little coffee shop, that neighborhood having the most darling homes, their OMG!!!-factors, etc.
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i subletted in North Beach/Telegraph Hill for six months. my impression overall: meh.
practically every New York City neighborhood has more to offer and is more interesting. various neighborhoods in this city itself are more comfortable to live in, and don't have that schizophrenic mix of locals vs. visitors.
it's like a closed loop, unlike, say, the Castro. once you're in North Beach, you're boxed in by water and can't easily hop over to the next community.
is that photo a beanie from those jive hipster cat days? I've lived here for 15 years and still haven't seen one of those on anyone in North Beach yet.
And strip clubs! Adorable!
North Beach makes me ill. We lived there for a year, and left as soon as our lease was up.
Pike Place is a neighborhood? I'm from Seattle, and unless it was invented by realtors in the last 20 years, there is no such neighborhood.