What are the prettiest blocks in Manhattan?

Gramercy square

West 4th Street in the village just before it ends at West 12th.

The whole Sutton Place area in the far East 50s are amazing.

Cherry Lane. End of thread.

Beekman Place

Riverside Drive

Fifth Avenue bet. 59th and 96th.

W. 76th between CPW and Columbus

most of the W. 60s

the E. 60s & E. 70s from 5th to 3rd.

W. 9, W. 10, W. 11, and W.12 between 5th and 6th.

Park at 77th.

Streets not districts r5 ...though it's great you're so enthusiastic about New York, dollface.

The only behaviour you can count on from New Yorkers is their desperation in showing they live in NYC and know more than the next cunt. Sad really.

W 20th between 9th and 10th. Washington Mews.

8th avenue between 30th and 34th is particularly pretty if you think homeless crackheads are pretty.

I hear East 62nd Street between Madison and Fifth just got a lot prettier.

r8 signals the predictable unearthing of the "Those New Yorkers are BAD PEOPLE, because they love their hometown."

Yeah, civic pride is a stain on all Americans.

Where did you move after you failed here in NYC, Dear? Isn't there anything nice about it you might share with us?

I wouldn't stoop to live in NYC, but have counted Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, London, Singapore and Amsterdam as home.

Looking up West End from the seventies to the Eighties is truly amazing. You could be in 1945. A really majestic sight.

[all posts by tedious, racist idiot removed.]

Really? A thread about what the prettiest blocks are and you can't even post pics to back up your choices?

OK

East 70's, just love it.

The words pretty and Manhattan do not go together.

The whole Sutton Place area "are amazing," R3?

Should we accept your assessments?

r20 This is exactly why I said people need to post pics to backup their choices.

Parts of Convent Avenue and Strivers Row, both up in Harlem are gorgeous

[quote]And the final slap: the daughter took her mother's maiden name. Classy broads.

Oh. What are you, on the lam?

The first block of W. 67th Street.

The blocks that have "artists buildings" (various)

The prettiest blocks are on the shoulders of the countless young chorus-types who come to NY and think they will not end up selling shoes.

The cuntiest cunts are the cunts who cunt with megacunt R26.

I know this is going to sound corny as hell, but in front of the Plaza is still beautiful.

Glamorous Central Park South.

Fifth Ave in the 70s is very lovely.

Henderson Place. Just lovely.

Commerce Street in the snow.

I liked the block the Asian guy and his Anglo boyfriend lived in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet. They had a a stoop and a back yard, which was cool.

The lady in R30's picture just came back from the 'Ritz Thrift Shop.'

If you're younger than 40 you won't get that reference.

What are these two up to, R34?

Even Park Avenue looks beautiful in the snow.

"Even" Park Avenue?

Perry between West Fourth and Bleecker.

"Pretty" blocks? In Manhattan?? It's a shithole wrapped in tears and dog shit!

SOrry to sound mega-tourist-y here - and I DID live in NYC, 7 years (in the 80's) - but I f--ing LOVE, and think is pretty, Rockefeller Center; the rink, all of it, ESPECIALLY those neat water-spouting statues (fish, etc.)

Of course all the racists on here will never name any street in the Bronx.

Oh, dear God. They just drag that "RACIST!" bullshit in every fucking chance they get.

R41 didn't name anything about the Bronx, did she? The racist CUNT.

Trolling, are we? Are you the one who said that the racist press was pressing Sarah Ferguson to change her name to Ladue?

What is stopping r41 from naming a street in the Bronx, besides sheer stupidity and nastiness?

R43 for LOLZ.

The park, the elevation, the water have to work in favor of Riverside Drive

Sutton Square

Where is this?

Convent Avenue

Manhattan should be ashamed how few candidates there really are.

The United Nations, of course. It gives NY significance, it was designed by professionals, and it is relatively clean.

R48, that's City College.

patchen place

10th street btwn 5th & university

washington Mews

mercer btwn houston & spring

[quote]patchin place

I would duck into Patchin Place on my way home from the Ninth Circle and have alley sex from time to time when I didn't want to bring the trick home with me.

[quote]10th street btwn 5th & university

I lived on the next block on 10th. I miss it.

[quote]mercer btwn houston & spring

Time of my life on some of those streets. I wish everyone was alive from then and there.

[quote]washington Mews

It's funny the way New Yorkers make such a fuss over that one little not very special mews.

R54, hey, we were neighbors! I used to live in that area too.

R54, sounds like my mother. Everything's an excuse to tell a story about her life.

When, R56? I was there from 1975-1978.

Any comments about Bank St in the Village?

I wanted to live on Bank Street if I stayed in NY.

[quote]I wanted to live on Bank Street if I stayed in NY.

It's a schlepp. Be warned!

Whatever NY street this is is the most beautiful.

That's called Broadway, R62. Thanks for the nice pic.

Mott street in July

Any block where my sugar daddy is paying for my flat .

Good ass is expensive

r9, I'd say West 20th between 8th and 9th or West 21st between 9th and 10th, although I don't disagree with 20th between 9th and 10th either. Nor Washington Mews.

R60 Why did you want to live there? Unless people have totally fucked with them I remember from 1990 that there were/are still many charming old houses there.

R61 More to say about Bank St? If so thanks.

53rd between Second and Third!

At the time, R66, 1976-78, I thought Bank Street was the prettiest street west of 7th Ave.

R69 Thanks. 27 Bank st was my great grandparents' home. My grandmother grew up there, My two aunts and my mom were born there too. The only time or two I was briefly in NYC i took a quick stroll down the street and thought it was a most beautiful street too.

My great aunt and uncle lived their entire adult lives at 37 Washington Park - I remember the park was very beautiful when I was a preteen (60s.) Their apartment was wonderful.

It's called Washington Square, R70. Does this look familiar?

OMG, that's so not it, R71. Here we go again.

Thanks R71/72 - a glass too many of wine after a long day! I stand corrected - duh on my part. Of course I got it wrong for no good reason (see marginal self-defense in my first sentence.)

R 72 - yes! Similar to memories - many thanks.

I know the OP asked to list the prettiest blocks but I wanted to mention buildings in New York that I think are attractive:

IAC building 555 W. 18th Street at 11th Avenue

497 Greenwich Street renovated warehouse with folded glass facade

the Blue Condominium 105 Norfolk Street

former DeLamar house. 233 Madison Avenue at 37th Street, NE corner

N.Y. Yacht Club, with its unusual windows. 37 W. 44th Street

LVMH building / Dior 21 E. 57th Street

Hearst Tower. 300 W. 57th Street at Eighth Avenue

Metropolitan Club. 1 E. 60th Street

36 East 61st Street

8 E 62nd Street and adjacent townhouses

former Edith Fabbri house 11 E. 62nd Street

E. 62nd Street between Fifth and Madison

Colony Club. 564 Park Avenue at 62nd Street

E. 63rd Street between Fifth and Madison

Third Church of Christ, Scientist. 585 Park Avenue at 63rd Street

Lotos Club. 5 E. 66th Street

Union Club. 701 Park Avenue at 69th Street

East 70th Street between Park and Lexington

Rhinelander mansion / Ralph Lauren. 867 Madison Avenue at 72nd Street

former Pulitzer mansion 11 E. 73rd Street

St. Jean Baptiste church. 1067 Lexington Avenue at 76th Street

208 - 218 E. 78th Street

former Isaac Fletcher house 2 E. 79th Street

6 E. 79th Street

south side of 79th Street between Fifth and Madison

Marymount School 1028 Fifth Avenue at 84th Street

former Otto Kahn mansion. 1 E. 91st Street at Fifth Avenue, NE corner

Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street

56 E. 93rd Street

former International Center of Photography 1130 Fifth Avenue at 94th Street now I think it's a private house

Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx

They show 11 E. 62nd Street in the Woody Allen movie "Hannah and her Sisters".

the area around 94 Macdougal Street, where Bob Dylan used to live

I hate the colour of the light green door at 92-94 Macdougal Street when you look at Google street view. The rest of the building is attractive.

the area around 100 Eaton Place and 37 Chesham Street in London England, which were used as locations in the movie "The Crying Game"

Take that, New York bitches.

R64, hand in your gay card. That was Larry Hart.

I agree with R71 - the historic townhouses on the north side of Washington Square Park, between Fifth Avenue and University Place.

East 19th Street, between Irving Place and Third Avenue - if you exclude the bright red buildings

An answer for r33?

I drove into this without expecting it and gasped (MARY! indeed) - not a pretty block but so wonderful.

R84 here - THIS scene.

West 67th between CPW and Columbus - great tree lined street, and a series of just really cool prewar apartment buildings, beginning with the Des Artiste building.

And 72nd street on the East Side is pretty much great all the way to the river. In contrast to WEST 72nd street, which even in the kinder more gentrified New York, is still scuzzy, The Dakota aside.

R34 I'm 38 and I get it. :) T'was the place that sold second hand furs. My mother never shopped there because she had an aversion to "used clothing." She went to Fred the Furrier instead.

Damn, look at that bus, though. That is one old picture.

I see someone mentioned Commerce street. An ex BF of mine lives there. I like the restaurant and that theatre always looked cute.

Someone up thread made a joke about Ms. Rivers's old block but it's actually really pretty when the Amaranth lights go up. She used to go there ALL the time.

East 62nd Street between Second and Third Avenue. Tallulah Bankhead's former townhouse at 230 E 62nd Street is very nice.

East 70th Street between Park and Lexington, especially the townhouses on the north side of the street

Whichever street these houses are on. The photo was labeled Sutton Square but that's probably wrong.

E. 10th between 2nd & 3rd.

The spot right in front of this building at 725 Fifth Avenue.

Grove Court in the West Village. I lived downtown for years before I even knew this existed, it's so hidden. Seems almost claustrophobic, but it's very picturesque and unusual. Like you're protected.

I actually discovered it when researching NYC filming locations for Lucio Fulci's NEW YORK RIPPER. I became fascinated when the characters walk into this house and into a very interesting multi-story interior, only to discover later all interior shots were done on a sound stage in Italy. :(

Check out the comments at this link for some of the other films and cultural references related to this house and courtyard.

[quote] The words pretty and Manhattan do not go together.

^^ But the words ignorant and provincial do.

The Bronx - you rang?

MacDougal Street between Houston and Bleecker

9th between 1st & A.

Stuyvesant St.

4th between 2nd & 3rd is a block I' love to live on.