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With a complete subway system with 800 miles of tracks, 27 bridges, 4 tunnels (or more?)
If you mean functioning tunnels for cars then its 4, there are also 18 tunnels for subways. NYC is a pretty old city and there is a lot of stuff underground and old abandoned infrastructure, like this old tunnel built in 1844 right in downtown Brooklyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobble_Hill_Tunnel
Doesn't Downtown LA have something like 20% office vacancy with only 5% of the city's jobs even located downtown? DTLA has a huge residential housing growth, but it's going to need to attract A LOT more white collar jobs to be able to be compared to anyplace in Manhattan...
Doesn't Downtown LA have something like 20% office vacancy with only 5% of the city's jobs even located downtown? DTLA has a huge residential housing growth, but it's going to need to attract A LOT more white collar jobs to be able to be compared to anyplace in Manhattan...
LA is slowly but surely getting there. LA has the potential / capability to be the World's Greatest Metro Region. The question is not if it can be done, but when - 20 years, 30 years or 40 years from today? Only time will tell. Goes the saying "NY is the past, LA is the future".
LA is slowly but surely getting there. LA has the potential / capability to be the World's Greatest Metro Region. The question is not if it can be done, but when - 20 years, 30 years or 40 years from today? Only time will tell. Goes the saying "NY is the past, LA is the future".
There's vastly more urban growth in NYC than in LA. If anything, LA falls behind by the day.
I would guess there's about 10x as much urban development in the NYC region as the LA region. The vast majority of growth in the LA region is suburban in orientation, even right downtown, where you have suburban-style garden apartment complexes with 2-car parking for every unit. LA can't even match the urban growth in slow-growing, relatively stagnant Chicago.
In terms of "city feel", LA will never catch up to NYC, ever. It will never even match the rate of urban growth, unless there was some huge calamity where NYC disappeared or something.
Nola,Nyc has no more room to grow & far as city feel goes L.A is way bigger than small Manhattan, i would say Manhattan is the ultimate urban entity but on a bigger level L.A has more city centers & landsize than Nyc .
I am not understanding the parameters of this debate. What are the qualifing factors for "kingship"?
Population, area, density? please be specific. All this, "Yo, LA is tha best 'cause teams and more buildings and Manhattan is just a small!" is a pretty poor argument.
Also, silly catchphrases like, "L.A. is growing fast, by NYC was built to last!" do not work either.
LA is on its way to being like Mexico City not New York City.
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