Alanna Schubach

Governor Andrew Cuomo recently dropped some major transportation news on New Yorkers, announcing  a series of dramatic revamps to 30 subway stations throughout the city. Depending on your neighborhood, though, the governor’s statement might inspire more anxiety than excitement.

Teensy Ditmas Park is attracting a lot of notice these days for its small-town feel: The family-friendly neighborhood is home to Victorian houses with wide porches, where it’s not unusual to see kids out at play. It’s also considered one of the last bastions of affordability in Brooklyn but, like so many other neighborhoods, prices are rising.

The history of the Lower East Side is vibrant and rich, well-mined by the Tenement Museum, which allows visitors to step inside the preserved—and cramped—apartments where immigrant families once resided. But today, many of those families are long gone, their experiences related through documents and artifacts.

It's no secret that the division between rich and poor is a worsening problem in New York—in fact, according to the Pew Research Center, our city has one of the highest rates of income segregation in the country.

No need to worry about keeping warm through the winter in this three-bedroom, three-bath triplex on Jefferson Avenue: It's outfitted with four stone fireplaces, not to mention plenty of other elegant features.  The townhouse, built in 1905, is emblematic of the surrounding Stuyvesant Heights historic district, a neighborhood that's iconic for its row houses with high ceilings and vast windows.