We're launching a new series of reader-submitted neighborhood guides! If you're interested in sharing the best of your neighborhood with our community, check out this submission form.

Name: Jesse & Erick
Neighborhood: Fairmount/Art Museum
City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Our Home: One bedroom loft apartment

Having lived all over Chicago, New York and Cleveland, I can say that Fairmount (also known as Art Museum neighborhood) in Philadelphia is by far my favorite neighborhood I've ever lived in! Just blocks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boathouse Row, future sight of The Barnes Foundation, and littered with bars full of craft beers and great jukeboxes, Fairmount is the most friendly and diverse neighborhood in the city. More

We're launching a new series of reader-submitted neighborhood guides! If you're interested in sharing the best of your neighborhood with our community, check out this submission form.

Name: Sarah Coffey
Location: North end of the Upper West Side (96th Street)
City: New York, New York
My Home: One-bedroom apartment in a brick walk-up

I'm new to my neighborhood, having moved to New York from Chicago last spring. Although I'm not yet an expert on the Upper West Side, I've walked, shopped, and eaten my way through a lot of it, and I thought I'd take the plunge and kick off our new feature, in which we're calling on readers to give us a mini tour of their favorite neighborhood stores, sites, and hang-out spots. More

Looking for a desk and willing to venture into the biggest smorgasbord of antiques on Atlantic Avenue? Horsemen Antiques is an old school bricks and mortar operation (no website) that has been on Atlantic Avenue for 40 years. Repeatedly winning "best of..." awards (like this one below in Citysearch) they are an essential stop when looking for English, French, Empire and American mid-century modern furniture...
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Powerful color for your home. When Alayne Patrick was opening Layla many years ago, she asked us for help (we had a friend in common). She didn't need it. Alayne's sense of style and attention to detail are so refined that we had little more to offer and, instead, learned a great deal from her. Her shop, Layla, is an exquisite blend of home textiles and clothing for the world shopper... More

Please go to our new link for City Foundry.

If you like vintage industrial, you'll love City Foundry. Recently expanded to two store fronts along the northern side of Atlantic, CF is filled from floor to ceiling with metal everything from lights to desks to chairs to shelves to... you name it....And they're having a sale right now... More

What fun! This little shop at the west end of Atlantic is run by a French husband and wife who've been in the neighborhood for more than 20 years, but only opened their little shop six months ago. Filled with vintage signs from Brooklyn and France, it is an endlessly cheerful outpost on this - at times - very serious street... More

This past weekend we walked Atlantic Avenue and took notes on all the best furniture shops. During the next few weeks, we'll be rolling out every one for you to comment on.

Don't add an "I" in the front. At the top of Atlantic Avenue is a new addition in this location, Kea Carpets and Kilims, that stretches the boundary of this great decor neighborhood further towards Flatbush... More