- Old Town North --- Home to Canal Place, Abingdon Row, Watergate of Alexandria, Old Town North mostly looks like Old Town, but most homes here date from after 1980 and 1990.
- Northeast Alexandria -- This is an area of tightly-packed colonial-style townhomes that were built in the 1980's in developments like Nethergate. There are also newer communities straddling Slaters Lane like Potomac Greens and Old Town Crescent.
- Braddock Road Metro --- This is the neighborhood where the Henry is located. More below.
- Old Town --- This is the heart of Old Town. It's where you'll find the shops homes and restaurants that make Old Town such a desirable place to live.
- Southwest Quadrant --- This is a neighborhood composed mostly of modest brick rowhouses and townhouses that were constructed in the middle of the last century. These well-built, conveniently situated homes have little cachè that you'll find in the waterfront homes and stately villas in Old Town.
- Eisenhower East --- The Carlyle area is mostly newly built high-rises surrounding the campus of the USPTO.
The Henry is a brand new condominium community located in Old Town Alexandria---sort of . . .
The builder will tell you that the Henry is in Old Town Alexandria and this is almost completely true. But the truth of that statement that really comes down to how you define Old Town.
If you define Old Town as the 22314 Zip Code then the Henry is in Old Town without question. Addresses in 22314 run from Slaters Lane in the North, along the Potomac and down to the Beltway. The western boundary of this zip code runs along the train tracks over toward Telegraph Road. That means that 22314 includes the Carlyle District (which is anything but "old"), Potomac Greens (a fairly new subdivision), and other parts of the city which are not really historic Old Town Alexandria. Please reference the map provided by Yahoo to get an idea of the subtle differences in the Old Town area.
If you look close at the map, you'll see that Yahoo divides the 22314 Zip code into these neighborhoods: