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Hope you aren't basing your impression on the OP's Google streetview links, because all of those are examples of lower middle class housing. Not sure whay he chose such for example., but there are many areas of Brooklyn Queens, and The Bronx which are the middle and upper middle equal of any suburban area.
The thing NYC has less of, and perhaps no true example, are 'McMansions'. We have what are the equivalents, but no true suburban type McMansions. We do have actual Mansions though.
We do have a few McMansions, at least Russian-style, around where I live in Rego Park ... there are some right on my very street. IMO it sticks out like multiple sore thumbs around the generally "Tudor" character of my section of Rego Park. I wish they had better taste ...
The most common stereotype of New York that I have come across is that it is almost entirely concrete and brick ghetto.
I had a friend from the upstate NY town of Watertown who said he read a story in High School called "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Then he asked me if it was still there.
he must not have read very closely - the main character grows up in Williamsburg, and IIRC specifically mentions other parts of Brooklyn that are greener and nicer.
What I often see in this forum is people from New Jersey putting down NYC. And New Yorkers from Manhattan and Brooklyn,, as well as NJ, putting down Staten Island, one of NYC's borough for those that are unfamiliar with it. I will show you how beautiful The Island Of Staten is. In reality, most of the people that critize the Island or NYC, have a below 75 I.Q. level.
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.....that building stereotype is even unfair to the bronx.
