O. C. Kelloggs Add.

The lot sizes here—a tight 0.16 acres on average—mean you're living on urban air, packed into what amounts to a 17-acre stamp in Eastown, where the sidewalk is your front yard and dinner is a seven-minute walk whether you're after a late-night hot dog at Yesterdog or coffee at one of the neighborhood joints. Homes run around $426K, and you're sitting on transit that runs to your curb while downtown is barely seven minutes away; the trade-off is that you're not driving much, because there's almost no reason to—229 restaurants and a grocery store nine minutes on foot will do that. Grand Rapids Public Schools handles education, and Martin Luther King Jr. Park is four minutes away if you need grass and air. The walkability score of 6.8 tells the story: this is a place where a car is optional, not a requirement, and where you've made peace with small lots in exchange for density and the particular alchemy of a neighborhood that's been busy reinventing itself since the 1970s.