Classic Uptown in Albuquerque, NM

Classic Uptown is a residential pocket in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights, just northeast of the Uptown retail core and northwest of the Indian Moon neighborhood. Most of its houses went up between the 1940s and the late 1960s, and the streets carry a mix of single-family homes and apartment buildings rather than one uniform product. Nearby Jerry Cline Park, at Constitution and Louisiana NE, keeps tennis courts, playgrounds, ball fields and a packed-gravel loop path, with a bike path at its north end that walks through to Winrock. Coronado Center, ABQ Uptown and Winrock Town Center are all minutes away.

The wider Uptown district doubles as one of the city's business centers, with hotels and restaurants stacked around the malls. EXPO New Mexico sits nearby, running the New Mexico State Fair each September along with concerts, sporting events and weekend flea markets at Tingley Coliseum.