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Atlanta Neighborhoods
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Downtown College Park, GA
Creative Loafing has been covering neighborhoods in Atlanta going back to 1972. Our roots are in the Morningside, Cheshire Bridge, Virginia-Highlands, Old Fourth Ward, Westside, and Downtown areas. Below are the list of neighborhoods, towns and counties around Atlanta that we are tracking. For most neighborhoods we have a good list of shops, restaurants, nightlife and community organizations. If you see something we’re missing, let us know editorial at creativeloafing.com
Buckhead/Northside
Peachtree Hills
Peachtree Hills is a neighborhood near Buckhead. The Peachtree Battle Shopping Center is in Peachtree Hills.
Peachtree Battle Alliance
Peachtree Battle Alliance is a neighborhood that borders the Peachtree Creek near the Peachtree Battle Shopping Center.
Memorial Park
Memorial Park is a neighborhood near Buckhead and Peachtree Battle that has the Bobby Jones Golf Course and Bitsy Grant Tennis Center.
South Tuxedo Park
South Tuxedo Park is the neighborhood to the northwest of the triangle in Buckhead. Bordered by Habersham on the North, West Paces on the South, and R...
Buckhead Forest
Buckhead Forest is the neighborhood just to the Northeast of the triangle in Buckhead. Borders Roswell Road, Piedmont and Peachtree.
North Buckhead
Neighborhood to the Northeast of Buckhead. Roswell Road to Peachtree and as far east as Lenox Road.
East Chastain Park
Neighborhood to the east of Chastain Park along Roswell Road. Just above Buckhead and below Sandy Springs.
Lindbergh/Morosgo
Generations ago, this neighborhood was home to two spring-water pools, a lake, and tons of outdoor amenities, including a zip line, horseback riding, ...
Garden Hills
A hilly residential enclave in the shadow of Buckhead?s towering skyscrapers, Garden Hills offers an upscale, suburban-style experience minus the trip...
Argonne Forest
One of Atlanta’s fanciest-schmanciest suburbs, Argonne Forest was developed on the grounds of a 100-acre estate in the mid-1950s. Though many of its h...
Buckhead
Atlanta’s swankiest neighborhood, Buckhead is no longer the epicenter of Atlanta’s once buck-wild nightclub scene - and that’s the way most residents ...
Brookhaven
What once was affectionately known as Brookhaven Beach, an area populated by many Atlanta area musicians in the ’60s and ’70s because of its cheap ren...
Downtown/O4W
Downtown Neighborhoods
The downtown and surrounding neighborhoods attached to downtown. Old Fourth Ward, Sweet Auburn, Edgewood Ave. on the East Side and Castleberry and Cap...
Sweet Auburn
Long known as the historic “Sweet Auburn” neighborhood associated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement - the MLK Center,...
Oakland
Tiny Oakland is bound by MARTA’s east-west rail line to the north, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to the south, Grant Street to the east, and the Downto...
Downtown (neighborhood)
Downtown Atlanta, Terminus in another era, has a hole in the middle of it. The Gulch, the area where the railroad hub was located around which the cit...
Castleberry Hill
Between the Atlanta University Center and south Downtown lies Castleberry Hill, a neighborhood with one of the most colorful histories in the city. Du...
Old Fourth Ward
The Old Fourth Ward is the neighborhood just to the South of Freedom Parkway and bordered by Ponce City Market, Boulevard and the beltline. Home to th...
East Atlanta/EAV
Kirkwood
About five miles east of Five Points, Kirkwood began as a pastoral, turn-of-the-century Atlanta streetcar suburb. Nowadays, Kirkwood is still a fascin...
Ormewood Park
This verdant, diverse, and quiet neighborhood has a storied history of being a good place to settle down and raise a family ? while still being close...
East Lake
When Asa Candler wasn’t busy building a soft drink empire, he was purchasing a vast stretch of land that now makes up the East Lake Golf Club. Once Bo...
Grant Park
This leafy neighborhood boasts one of Atlanta’s grandest parks, established in 1883, polished up in 1903 by the Olmstead brothers, and revitalized in ...
East Atlanta Village
With its bars, music venues and restaurants and pop-up bistros, East Atlanta is the hub of Atlanta’s underground nightlife and the city’s trendsetting...
Midtown/Atlantic Station
Midtown Neighborhoods
The midtown neighborhoods of Atlanta including Ansley Park, a portion of Georgia Tech and the Midtown neighborhood.
Armour
Armour is not technically a neighborhood. It is an industrial area in the heart of Midtown beneath the I-85/GA-400 interchange. Home to Sweetwater Bre...
Ansley Park
Ansley Park is a neighborhood in the heart of Midtown bordering Piedmont Park, I-85 and Peachtree Street.
Sherwood Forest
Why developers in the 1940s decided to name this sleepy residential neighborhood Sherwood Forest is anyone’s guess. But once you name something Sherwo...
Midtown (neighborhood)
From its skyscrapers housing national and international business headquarters to the apartment views with citywide views from their rooftop pools, no ...
Northeast/Little Five Points
Piedmont Heights
Piedmont Heights is a neighborhood in Northeast Atlanta tucked between Ansley Park, Morningside and Cheshire Bridge/I-85.
Morningside/Lenox Park
Morningside is a neighborhood in Northeast Atlanta that touches Emory/Sage Hill, Virginia-Highland, Ansley Park and Piedmont Heights.
Lindridge-Martin Manor
Behind the strip clubs, sex shops, and frozen-in-time restaurants of Cheshire Bridge Road is a more residential side, Lindridge-Martin Manor, featurin...
Virginia-Highland
Virginia-Highland, founded as a streetcar suburb nearly a century ago, and now incorporated as an intown ‘hood is where residents can walk to restaura...
Northeast/Virginia-Highland
Lake Claire
Twice a month, free spirits convene in the Lake Claire neighborhood for its public drum circle. The drumming starts at sundown, and the beat goes on u...
Inman Park
Inman Park is where members of the city’s creative class go when they hit the big time ? or where those seeking the refuge of quaint coach houses or p...
Druid Hills/Emory
The Emory University/North Druid Hills area provides a kind of middle ground to the landscaped estates of Buckhead and the casual atmosphere of Decatu...
Poncey-Highland
For a relatively small neighborhood, Poncey-Highland has a hell of a lot going on: movies at the deco-chic Plaza Theatre, drinks at true-blue politica...
Little Five Points (neighborhood)
Situated a few miles east of downtown Atlanta, at what used to be the intersections of Euclid, Moreland, McLendon, and Seminole avenues, Little Five P...
Candler Park
The Candler Park neighborhood is situated on 55 acres of greenspace that Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler donated as a city park to Atlanta in 1922, a wo...
Cabbagetown/Reynoldstown
The popular neighborhood was known as Factory Town or Fulton Mill Village before it became Cabbagetown. Its narrow streets and crooked lanes ? and tho...
Southside/Summerhill
Peoplestown
With the Atlanta Braves now in Cobb County, and Georgia State University quickly moving forward with plans to expand its housing and sports facilities...
Chosewood Park
When a Living Walls mural by Argentine artist Hyuro, featuring a naked woman, was vandalized after facing resistance from some Chosewood Park resident...
Joyland
Back in 1921 Joyland was an amusement park built for African Americans. Today, the small, southeast Atlanta neighborhood is the home of Arthur Langfor...
Mechanicsville
Atlantans might know Mechanicsville as the host of the Atlanta Fair, home to Atlanta native and hip hop artist T.I.?s character in the movie ATL, or e...
Polar Rock
Little is known about the history of Atlanta’s Polar Rock neighborhood in southeast Atlanta, or how it acquired such a cool name in a city known for i...
South Atlanta
No, we’re not talking about the huge swath of land south of I-20. This richly historic southeast Atlanta neighborhood once known as Brownsville sits n...
Summerhill
With the Atlanta Braves now in Cobb County, and Georgia State University quickly moving forward with plans to expand its housing and sports facilities...
Sylvan Hills
Bounded by Lee Street, Langford Parkway, I-85, and avenues including Deckner and Arden, Sylvan Hills manages to be all about the porousness of borders...
Capitol View
Fans of street grids and bungalows priced below Old Fourth Ward prices, welcome to your dream ?hood. Developed as a streetcar suburb in the early 20th...
Lakewood Heights
Tucked away between the Downtown Connector and Chosewood Park, the once thriving Southside neighborhood has been in a state of decline since the Lakew...
Adair Park
Adair Park, which bills itself as “Atlanta’s best kept secret,” is characterized by the quintessential elements of old turn-of-the-century charm: larg...
Southwest/West End
Niskey Lake
Niskey Lake isn’t the biggest body of water in southwest Atlanta, not by a long shot. But it’s likely the one with the most surrounding property owned...
Collier Heights
When former Atlanta construction magnate Herman J. Russell’s 1963 ranch home hit the market earlier this year for close to half a million dollars, it ...
Greenbriar
Greenbriar abuts I-285’s western edge at Arthur B. Langford Jr. Parkway. Its huge shopping institution, Greenbriar Mall, home to the first Chik-fil-A ...
Horseshoe Community
You can tell Horseshoe is almost OTP by the sheer amount of greenery present. Nestled between Cascade Road, I-285, and the historic Cascade Heights ne...
West End/Atlanta University Center
Besides being home to the largest conglomerate of historically black colleges and universities in the nation, the West End presents the kind of cultur...
Cascade
Affluent homes of successful doctors, lawyers and businessmen line the streets, high-priced cars grace the driveways and children play outside in thei...
Westside
Bankhead
The home of the Bankhead Bounce, Kilo Ali, T.I., Young Dro, D4L, and Shawty Lo, among others, is so intrinsic to the city’s cultural identity that whe...
Blandtown
Not much remains of the original churches and residences that made up the historically black neighborhood of Blandtown, which took its name from a fre...
Bolton
Things that don’t typically define a great neighborhood surround Bolton: a landfill to the north, a derelict strip mall to the east, a rail yard to th...
Dixie Hills
You don’t have to look hard to find the sense of history in this neighborhood. At the wishbone intersection of Morehouse Drive, Spellman Street, and M...
Knight Park/Howell Station
Big things are scheduled for this antebellum neighborhood, nearly destroyed during Sherman?s March to the Sea in 1864 and now on the National Register...
Mozley Park
On the National Register of Historic Places, Mozley Park comprises blocks of classic, albeit tumbledown, cottages and bungalows, as well as a spacious...
Underwood Hills
Situated between Buckhead and Bankhead, Underwood Hills is within spitting distance of I-75. Though established in 1902, and then called Northside Par...
Vine City
The neighborhood, along with neighboring Vine City, has so much potential, says the pastor of Lindsay Street Baptist Church. Great bones. Great church...
Suburbs
College Park, GA
If there’s one thing College Park and East Point share, other than a border, it’s their misleading neighborhood names. There are no colleges currently...
Decatur/Oakhurst, GA
Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta down Ponce de Leon Avenue sits what’s arguably metro Atlanta’s most desired suburb - a progressive enclave of q...
Little Five Points
Virginia Highland
Buckhead
Downtown/O4W
East Atlanta
Westside
Atlanta Neighborhoods, Where to Live, Shop, Visit