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View Poll Results: Your pick?
Downtown Seattle 15 24.19%
Lower Manhattan 47 75.81%
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-15-2011, 10:17 PM
 
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My apologies for this thread topic! I Honestly thought they would be somewhat closer in comparison.

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I honestly can't think of anywhere besides Midtown Manhattan that can compare with Lower Manhattan. Seattle is not even remotely close. Sorry to harp on this, I'll stop now
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Old 11-15-2011, 10:31 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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This is lame!!
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Old 11-16-2011, 09:32 AM
 
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Downtown and Lower Manhattan are essentially the same thing.
Financial district is Wall Street.


This map is good and zoomable
Road Map of Lower Manhattan (Manhattan, New York) - Aaccessmaps.com


But really it's about south of 14th, at least, though I've also heard 23rd and even 30th. I guess I'll let somebody from NYC comment though. It is much much bigger than Wall Street though.
I grew up in Manhattan (Northern Tip, not DT), but I would consider downtown, other than a direction, to be south of 14th. To me, The Village, SoHo, etc were all "downtown neighborhoods". If that is the case, IMO, that is the greatest urban area in the country.
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Old 11-16-2011, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia,New Jersey, NYC!
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I grew up in Manhattan (Northern Tip, not DT), but I would consider downtown, other than a direction, to be south of 14th. To me, The Village, SoHo, etc were all "downtown neighborhoods". If that is the case, IMO, that is the greatest urban area in the country.
nah, i like that map. there's a point when you leave the "midtown" vibe and that's in the 20's for streets imo

and i grew up in yonkers/ct
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Old 11-16-2011, 06:23 PM
 
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Philly and Boston both have better downtowns than Seattle
No.
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Old 11-16-2011, 06:29 PM
 
Location: roaming gnome
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No.
All 4 major east coast cities have a better DT than Seattle.
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Old 11-16-2011, 06:33 PM
 
Location: NY-NJ-Philly looks down at SF and laughs at the hippies
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^ NY, DC, Boston and Philly are above Seattle. Seattle will have to compete for fifth place with Baltimore if in the Northeast.
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Old 11-16-2011, 06:33 PM
 
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All 4 major east coast cities have a better DT than Seattle.
DC and NYC yes. Philly and Boston. Arguably not. But hey, I can do this all day
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Old 11-16-2011, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Denver/Atlanta
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^ NY, DC, Boston and Philly are above Seattle. Seattle will have to compete for fifth place with Baltimore if in the Northeast.
Thats funny. I think Seattle gives these places a run for its money actually.
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Old 11-16-2011, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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No.
Correct.

The fact that Downtown Seattle is such a nice place really spoils any legitimate claim to a downright landslide for any NEern downtown except New York. Its totally plausible for someone to prefer DT Seattle over Philly and Boston and said person would have very little difficulty making a clear case as to why.

Of course, this is an inconvenient truth.
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