(Compiled from Yelp here)

As a native New Yorker – I found this great chat series on Yelp comparing NY and London neighborhoods. IMO – VERY accurate!

LONDON WEST
Notting Hill = New York Soho/West Village
Holland Park = Sutton Place
Mayfair = Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side
Knightsbridge = Central Park South, the very lower portion of the Upper East Side

Chelsea = Upper East side east of Lexington
LONDON CENTER
West End/Picadilly Circus/Lecester Square = Times Square
London’s Soho = the Village (sort of the hectic bustling tourist parts) + Chelsea (gay scene)

LONDON NORTH
Camden town = sort of also like the east village
the nice parts of Islington (barnsbury, highbury fields) = Brooklyn Heights
Clerkenwell = Fort Greene
the rest of Islington = miscellaneous brooklyn
Hampstead = Park Slope
West Hampstead = bo-co-ca brooklyn (god I hate that word)
[you get the picture - basically, North London is generally brooklyn]

LONDON EAST
The City = Wall Street
Hoxton and Shoreditch = Lower East Side
East London = the bronx

LONDON SOUTH OF THE RIVER
the vast unknown of South London = Queens

Essex (the suburban region where everyone from the east end and east london settled) = New Jersey
Surrey = Connecticut around Greenwich

(Complete aside – a friend of mine; Dave asked me to give a small signal of notification to another ex-colleauge – so consider this it !)

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