Suburban Essex County is beautiful. I supposed the burghers of Montclair and Short Hills are inurred to insults so often hurled at New Jersey by late night comedians. I can’t help but sneer at the provincial Manhattanite hipsters who denigrate the Garden State as is if it all looked like the ghastly stretch of [...]

The second cluster of wealthy neighborhoods in Bergen County is what I have dubbed the Saddle River-Ridgewood area. Ridgewood’s West End is unquestionably the wealthiest of the neighborhoods in this area with a mean household income of $326,140. The West End of Ridgewood is the 6th wealthiest neighborhood in New Jersey. The top Five are [...]

I have chosen to break up the Higley 1000 neighborhoods in Bergen County into two discrete clusters of wealth due to the disparate racial makeup of each group of neighborhoods. The first is made up of seven neighborhoods on top of the dramatic New Jersey Palisades, sometimes referred to as Bergen Hill. The second cluster [...]

I have chosen to break Westchester County into two geographical groups as there are significant differences in density and racial make up between the northern (Upper Westchester) and southern (Lower Westchester) ends of this elongated county. It is 50 miles by road from the Bronx to exurban Putnam County, and the journey stretches from the [...]

There are few Higley 1000 neighborhoods in central cities. The two exceptions to this rule are Manhattan and San Francisco. Urban neighborhoods that are based on Block Groups are usually too heterogeneous in terms of housing options to qualify for the list. As a rule, any substantial number of rental units will bring down the [...]

The New York City metro area dominates the Higley 1000 with 223 Neighborhoods. Because of its size and complexity, I hope my readers will be able to help me further refine the proper nomenclature for individual neighborhoods. I will write a series of general postings on each of the major concentrations of Higley 1000 neighborhoods [...]

The Five Towns Higley 1000 Suburbs and Neighborhoods
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Five Towns is one of those geographic names that bothers all geographers. Although everyone knows where it’s located, no one is really sure of its boundaries. Located in unincorporated Southwestern Nassau County, the area’s identity was forged by the merging of the Community [...]

Garden City
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In the late 1860s, Alexander T. Stewart, a wealthy New York merchant, won a bidding war with another local businessman and purchased the plains of the future Garden City for $55 an acre, a whopping sum at the time. Stewart was one of the early [...]

Saint James-Three Village
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The last nexus of wealth on Long Island is the Gold Coast’s poor cousin 20 miles East on Long Island Sound in Suffolk County. I am being a bit facetious in this description as the best roads in Nissequogue and Old Field look and feel [...]

Milwaukee is my home town and I must admit, I’m very partial to the Cream City. In spite of being built on heavy industry, Milwaukee, like Chicago did not let its beautiful Lake Michigan lakefront to be totally surrendered to the almighty dollar. A series of adjacent parks (O’Donnell
One of the aspects that makes Milwaukee [...]