The authors introduce the category \(\mathcal{SNBD}\) of neighborhood spaces and investigate its relations to various full subcategories. In particular, they demonstrate that \(\mathcal{SNBD}\) is a topological category, which contains the categories \(\text{Pr}\, \mathcal{TOP}\) of pretopological spaces, D. Doitchinov’s category \(\mathcal {STOP}\) of supertopological spaces, and hence the categories \(\mathcal{T}op\) of topological spaces and \(\text{Pr}\, ox\) of proximity spaces as nicely embedded full topological subcategories.