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Yeah I agree. Most of Brooklyn seems to be comprised of 2-3 story rowhomes and small multifamily buildings. The Bronx seems to have a much larger chunk of those 6-7 story midrise buildings.
Brooklyn has a large diversity of housing as does the Bronx, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say Brooklyn actually has more total number of 6 stories and up buildings than the Bronx does as Brooklyn is much larger in general though they're probably close. I wonder if there's a site that does breakdowns of these on a county level.
I think the question depends on if you're trying to do an averaging of the entire borough and then compare or if you're trying to compare the expanses of dense urban build up.
Brooklyn has Midwood, Canarsie and Gerritsen Beach that's almost all houses.
Bronx has huge parks, and that vast Throggs Neck section and, Edenwald is somewhat suburban looking.
On the urban condensed side Brooklyn has East New York and Brownsville.
...but my vote, and the dubious honor goes to the Bronx.
The entire section of the Bronx south of Gun Hill Rd and west of Bronx River Pkwy and Bruckner Expwy is this seething, dirty colossal mass of tenements, loud music, street cleaning signs that are 2 days PER SIDE, people shambling about the streets and bodegas all day doing nothing, with tens of thousands of people per square mile.
I have been to Iraq, twice, and lived on Morris Ave. Morris Ave looks worse than the non-battle scarred areas of Iraq.
Brooklyn has a large diversity of housing as does the Bronx, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say Brooklyn actually has more total number of 6 stories and up buildings than the Bronx does as Brooklyn is much larger in general though they're probably close. I wonder if there's a site that does breakdowns of these on a county level.
I think the question depends on if you're trying to do an averaging of the entire borough and then compare or if you're trying to compare the expanses of dense urban build up.
Which chunks of Brooklyn areas 6 story heavy as The West Bronx?
Which chunks of Brooklyn areas 6 story heavy as The West Bronx?
I said 6 story and up and that there is likely more in total in a borough comparison. There's a lot scattered everywhere.
If you want chunks though, and those aside from housing project or mitchell-lama complexes, it'd be downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, North Brooklyn waterfront, the areas near Prospect Park like Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Parkway, Ocean and Caton Avenues along the park and several blocks around where they meet, Ocean Avenue along Kensington, and then bands of them paralleling Caton Avenue or Ocean Avenue a few times, skipping over some lower density streets (I don't know why it was developed this way), Hasidic Williamsburg/Broadway Triangle and Ocean Parkway in Kensington. That's not exhaustive, but it's what I can think of immediately. I'm sure there's more elsewhere that's in larger clumps, but there's definitely a lot of random 6 stories and up scattered throughout the borough.
That B train line is very dense in a lot of parts and hits dense parts of Brooklyn, much of Manhattan and the beach, and it’s why I think it should run its full length all week. I also think a crossing for the lower level tracks after Ocean Parkway station isn’t a bad idea in order to allow B trains to go one station further south. Or if we want to get really crazy, make Coney Island-Stillwell to be through-running and just have trains keep on rolling through, though I’m sure it’ll be tough figuring out how to make it so all train lines going in and out are balanced out.
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The Bronx is a fascinating and unique urban environment, not just in comparison to the other boroughs but really the entire country. While Brooklyn and Queens are unique as well, there are parts that remind of other cities like Boston, Philly, SF, DC. The Bronx doesn't remind me of anywhere else I've ever been.
I'm gonna go with Brooklyn because I find it to be more walkable than The Bronx and BK also has better subway service.
I do love all the parkland in The Bronx though. It's a lot more beautiful than most people probably realize. I agree that The Bronx seems to have a lot more highrise apartments but BK is building a lot more of them lately, especially in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area and Downtown BK area. BK's even getting one of those residential supertalls soon that are taking over Manhattan.
And parts of Brooklyn are basically like extensions of Manhattan nowadays, for better or worse
Does it really have better access to the subway or is Brooklyn just a bigger borough that has more trains to cater to it?
One big difference. Brooklyn can be considered as separate a city in its' own right, and was for many years. While the Bronx is basically an extension of Manhattan. It even continues Manhattan's street numbering system.
I said 6 story and up and that there is likely more in total in a borough comparison. There's a lot scattered everywhere.
If you want chunks though, and those aside from housing project or mitchell-lama complexes, it'd be downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, North Brooklyn waterfront, the areas near Prospect Park like Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Parkway, Ocean and Caton Avenues along the park and several blocks around where they meet, Ocean Avenue along Kensington, and then bands of them paralleling Caton Avenue or Ocean Avenue a few times, skipping over some lower density streets (I don't know why it was developed this way), Hasidic Williamsburg/Broadway Triangle and Ocean Parkway in Kensington. That's not exhaustive, but it's what I can think of immediately. I'm sure there's more elsewhere that's in larger clumps, but there's definitely a lot of random 6 stories and up scattered throughout the borough.
That B train line is very dense in a lot of parts and hits dense parts of Brooklyn, much of Manhattan and the beach, and it’s why I think it should run its full length all week. I also think a crossing for the lower level tracks after Ocean Parkway station isn’t a bad idea in order to allow B trains to go one station further south. Or if we want to get really crazy, make Coney Island-Stillwell to be through-running and just have trains keep on rolling through, though I’m sure it’ll be tough figuring out how to make it so all train lines going in and out are balanced out.
Correction: I wrote both Ocean Avenue in Kensington and Ocean Parkway in Kensington. I meant just the latter.
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