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The most walkable neighborhoods in New York City
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
20 neighborhoods of New York City ranked by walkability, each scored across the area around its own center. Five tie for the top score of 100/100, among them Greenwich Village, Little Italy and SoHo. All 20 score 70 or more, where most errands can be done on foot, and the lowest we rank is Coney Island (77). 11 of them score 98 or more, so the order among those turns on small differences.
| # | Neighborhood | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greenwich Village | 100 |
| 1 | Little Italy | 100 |
| 1 | SoHo | 100 |
| 1 | Tribeca | 100 |
| 1 | Lower Manhattan | 100 |
| 6 | Chinatown | 99 |
| 6 | Union Square | 99 |
| 6 | East Village | 99 |
| 6 | Battery Park City | 99 |
| 10 | Williamsburg | 98 |
| 10 | Times Square | 98 |
| 12 | Brighton Beach | 97 |
| 13 | Lower East Side | 96 |
| 13 | Chelsea | 96 |
| 15 | East Harlem | 95 |
| 16 | Upper East Side | 94 |
| 17 | Hell's Kitchen | 93 |
| 18 | Flushing | 92 |
| 19 | Astoria | 86 |
| 20 | Coney Island | 77 |
"From the center" is the distance from New York City's busiest point to the neighborhood's center. "Area scoring 70+" is the share of points across the neighborhood where most errands can be done on foot.
The top 5 up close
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is the most central of these five, 500 m south-west of New York City's busiest point, and scores 100/100. It has the most restaurants of the five: 7,398 within a 30 minute walk, the nearest Otto Enoteca Pizzeria, about a minute away. More on Greenwich Village.
Little Italy
Little Italy scores 100/100, 1.7 km south of New York City's busiest point. 12,215 everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of its middle, the nearest grocery about a minute away.
SoHo
SoHo scores 100/100, 1.4 km south-west of New York City's busiest point. Schools are where it leads the others, 181 of them within a 30 minute walk, starting with OMNHS SHS Sports Track, about 5 minutes away.
Tribeca
Tribeca lies the furthest out of these five, 2.6 km south-west of New York City's busiest point, and scores 100/100. 8,403 everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of its middle, the nearest grocery about 3 minutes away. Its thinnest category against the others is libraries and bookshops, with 65. More on Tribeca.
Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan scores 100/100, 2.5 km south-west of New York City's busiest point. None of the others has as many parks, with 481 in a 30 minute walk; City Hall Park is the nearest, about a minute away. More on Lower Manhattan.
Center and outskirts
The 11 neighborhoods within 3 km of New York City's center average 99, and the 9 further out average 92, so walkability falls away from the center. The nearest to the center, Union Square, 250 m away, scores 99, and the farthest, Coney Island, 17.5 km out, scores 77.
Each dot is a ranked neighborhood, numbered by rank and colored by score, placed by its distance and direction from the center of New York City.
New York City as a whole scores 93 out of 100 across the 5 km around its center. Other cities in the United States with ranked neighborhoods: Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, San Diego.
Questions about New York City's neighborhoods
What is the most walkable neighborhood in New York City?
5 of the 20 neighborhoods we rank in New York City tie as the most walkable, each with a walkability score of 100 out of 100 (Walker's Paradise): Greenwich Village, Little Italy, SoHo, Tribeca and Lower Manhattan.
How are New York City's neighborhoods ranked?
Each neighborhood is scored at points 100 m to 500 m apart across a circle around its center, sized to its area, and its score is the mean of those points. Each point's score counts the groceries, restaurants, shops, schools, parks and other everyday places within a 30 minute walk, as described in the methodology. New York City scores 93 across the 5 km around its center.
This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighborhoods and where they lie from Overture Maps and Wikidata.