You knew her, you loathed her, you wrote her off. Yep, she’s the Financial District, and she’s back to make you all eat your words.
Time Out has revealed its 2026 ranking of the coolest neighborhoods in cities around the world, and FiDi is representing New York at No. 28. Our editors all over the world came together for this master list, leaving the picking to on-the-ground experts.
So, why FiDi? What was once merely the center of the business world—and a hotspot for finance bros of all ages—has gone through something of a renaissance. In the mid-1990s, some of the commercial buildings in the neighborhood began their transition into residential. Then, after the 2001 September 11 attacks hit the area, that shift sped up dramatically. Little by little, the neighborhood started morphing into the cultural hub it is right now…