If you are interested in visiting a particular New York City neighborhood and you’re looking for local sites or services, you may want to check out this website:

http://www.halstead.com/neighborhoods.aspx

Once you select a link (by community name) and scroll down, you will see a list of service and site types that could be of interest. For example, if I click on “Upper East Side” and scroll down I see links for banks, bars, bookshops, cafes, churches, cinemas, cleaners, clinics, delicatessans, grocers, hardware, health clubs, hospitals, laundries, liquor stores, pharmacies, restaurants, schools, synagogues, theaters and video rentals.

This site appears to be very up-to-date. For example, I noticed that our new LDS chapel is listed with the other Upper East Side churches.