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This up and coming neighborhood where Thomas Edison once made his home just outside downtown is aptly named for its meatpacking origins. That heritage isn't entirely gone, as modern meatpacking facilities share the neighborhood with trendy gastropubs, hot boutiques and shotgun houses that young professionals are buying and fixing up.

Be sure to visit Butchertown Market, a former leather tanning operation that now houses local businesses that offer artisan chocolates, micro-brewed soy sauce aged in bourbon barrels and small-batch handmade soaps, lotions and candles along with unique accessories and home furnishings. Also drop in the Blind Pig for a bacon-infused Manhattan or a pork belly from the seasonally rotating local menu.