For excitement-per-square-foot or the ratio of buzz-to-block, few Manhattan neighborhoods can match the Times Square area, which runs -- and sings and dances -- from 40th Street to 54th Street, and from Sixth Avenue on the east to Eighth Avenue in Midtown West, with the non-stop neon bombast of Times Square at its center. As you might've guessed already, Times Square is the beating heart of Broadway and New York theater, as well as the sprawling spectacle that is Times Square, the old-school restaurants and bars of Restaurant Row and, yes, some lovely new construction condominiums for sale.

Most of the many recent architectural projects in the greater Times Square area have been given over to office space or hotels, but new luxury condominiums stand shoulder-to-shoulder with older buildings converted from office to residential space, and new condominium construction continues to remake the neighborhood. Life around Times Square may not be anybody's idea of laid-back, but Times Square is undeniably as New York as New York gets.