"The Linc": The Hot New 'Hood Near The Lincoln Tunnel

Classic gridlock in "The Linc" (Photograph by Jen Chung/Gothamist)

City planners, community groups and real estate brokers alike enjoy throwing around new names for neighborhoods—think Greenwich South, Tribeca North, Clinton, BoCoCa. And now, there is "The Linc," the area near the Lincoln Tunnel. Hey, shouldn't that be ~~Hell's Kitchen~~ Clinton South?

The Daily News notices the new condos being developed in the area, but also looks at the reality: "For now, it still has an old New York feel as eccentric locals and a spillover of tourists and colorful panhandlers from the Port Authority Bus Terminal crowd the gritty streets — recently joined by young preprofessionals paying more than $2,500 a month to live in studio apartments in the new crop of luxury rentals. Bars, some new and expensive, others decades old and mangy, are everywhere." Also, it's "not a place for families, yet... In fact, we saw more street characters than baby carriages. One of them, Daddy Wheelchair, rolls around (he really is in a wheelchair) the corner of 37th St. and Ninth Ave. begging for money to support a drug habit he doesn’t hide."

A tag sale vendor said, " Six years ago, this neighborhood was full of crackheads. It’s nice we can do this," but one resident was downbeat on the creeping gentrification, “It saddens me that it is such a struggle to keep alive the New York that made us creative, committed adults. To take away the character of a neighborhood is criminal.”

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By Jen Chung in News on June 18, 2010 4:33 PM

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pinball29

That stretch of 9th Ave used to be great, but the landlords are already tossing out all the old Mom and Pop stores for yuppie cafes and corporate crap. With all the new ugly sterile condos, (of course w/ bank branches and CVS's on ground level) it will just turn into another malled nitemare filled w/ mindless consumer yuppies.

That article was obviously bought and paid for by realtors trying to create buzz.

theLtrain

One of the last true real areas of manhattan south of harlem...true grit for those who supposedly have a hard time finding it in nyc...sounds good on paper, "near almost every train in the system...close to midtown" those looong walks to your condo on 10th avenue from 7th or 8th ave at 3:00 in the morning will make you reassess your living situation I assure you.

zincink

$2,500, sorry can't do that. I think everyone left for Brooklyn already...

emilydickinson

Oh this is precious!

As a kid I used to just sort of marvel at the grime on the buildings here, and they aren't much better now. Breathing all that crap in 24/7 has got to be bad for you, even by NYC standards.

beardofbees

I live in "the Linc." Best part? The buses that line up outside our building on 10th Ave. as they make their slow creep onto the ramps leading into Port Authority.

ed_Extinct

I get soot on my window sill and i'm in north hell's kitchen facing north away from traffic. I can't imagine living in that area for several reasons:

1. Traffic

2. Massive soot/Bad air quality

3. No Restaurants to speak of

4. Closest train is 42nd Street or 34th Street (both horrific)

5. Not safe at night