This map is pretty cool, superimposing NYC (and, to a lesser extent), Jersey City and environs) subway and lightrail systems on aerial photos. It gives you a better sense of how neighborhoods relate to transit networks, and pretty clearly illustrates how proximity to rail connections facilitates growth.

The Heights, where I live, is a transit desert - compare it to Red Hook/Bay Ridge in Brooklyn. Similar scale of the neighborhood, from what I can see.

It would be interesting to see how housing prices and amenities in NYC neighborhoods that are transit deprived compare to places like the Heights.

http://www.6sqft.com/see-nycs-subway- ... aerial-photo-of-the-city/