Edgewood Neighborhood Guide

Edgewood sits just east of downtown Atlanta, bounded by Boulevard, Moreland Avenue, DeKalb Avenue, and Memorial Drive, and it has spent the last decade trading its rough edges for rooftop bars and new construction without fully losing its scrappy character. Edgewood Avenue is the neighborhood's spine, known for one of the city's highest concentrations of bars per block and a Sunday Funday culture that draws regulars from across Atlanta. The result is a neighborhood that genuinely rewards people who want to walk out their front door and into the evening rather than plan around a car. Residents tend to lean toward bikes and scooters over driving, and the streets reflect that, for better and occasionally for worse. It is a neighborhood in the middle of its own reinvention, which means the energy is real but so is the sense that things are still being figured out.