What exactly makes a neighborhood cool? Time Out is back with their annual Time Out Index survey, which ranks the coolest neighborhoods in the world based on nominations by over 20,000 global city residents.
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How the cities are ranked
Time Out’s network of global editors worked together to narrow down the selections. Surprisingly, Ridgewood, a neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City, ranked number 4 on the list. The Queens neighborhood also took the top spot as the coolest neighborhood in NYC.
According to Time Out, a cool neighborhood is “a neighborhood that has its own distinctive flavor that’s accessible with great food and drink, has a flourishing community, and while easy to walk across, could be explored across an entire day or more.”
“Plus, it’s a neighborhood that is great for people to live, visit and stay and mixes up the best of old and new schools,” Time Out shares.
Here are the results of Time Out’s 5th annual ranking of the world’s coolest neighborhoods:
- Colonia Americana – Guadalajara, Mexico
- Cais do Sodré – Lisbon, Portugal
- Wat Bo Village – Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Ridgewood – New York City, USA
- Mile End – Montreal, Canada
- Barrio Logan – San Diego, USA
- Shimokitazawa – Tokyo, Japan
- Cliftonville – Margate, UK
- Barrio Yungay – Santiago, Chile
- Cours Julien – Marseille, France
- Shawlands – Glasgow, UK
- Dundas West – Toronto, Canada
- Vila Madalena – São Paulo, Brazil
- San Isidro – Havana, Cuba
- Neukölln – Berlin, Germany
- Avondale – Chicago, USA
- Walthamstow – London, UK
- Sants – Barcelona, Spain
- Little India – Singapore
- Rione Sanità – Naples, Italy
- Silver Lake – Los Angeles, USA
- Wan Chai – Hong Kong
- Barrio de las Letras – Madrid, Spain
- Vesterbro – Copenhagen, Denmark
- West End – Vancouver, Canada
- Levinsky – Tel Aviv, Israel
- Fitzroy – Melbourne, Australia
- Kilimani – Nairobi, Kenya
- Coconut Grove – Miami, USA
- Northern Quarter – Manchester, UK
- Letná – Prague, Czech Republic
- Noord – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Marrickville – Sydney, Australia
- Chacarita – Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pelham Island – Sheffield, UK
- Dogpatch – San Francisco, USA
- Ximending – Taipei, Taiwan
- Sea Point – Cape Town, South Africa
- Pagrati – Athens, Greece
- Santurce – San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Barrio Escalante – San José, Costa Rica
- Ubud – Bali, Indonesia
- Kingsland – Auckland, New Zealand
- Haut-Marais – Paris, France
- Bandra West – Mumbai, India
- Thonglor – Bangkok, Thailand
- Fortitude Valley – Brisbane, Australia
- Moda – Istanbul, Turkey
- Stoneybatter – Dublin, Ireland
- FESTAC Town – Lagos, Nigeria
- Versalles – Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
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