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Manhattan is akin to, from downtown to midtown, having the downtowns of Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago abutting each other from south to north. It's downtown Boston with curved streets and old architecture mixed with the new and a large financial component, center city Philadelphia with a mix of older rowhouses and some skyscrapers in a somewhat regular grid but broken up by public squares and often in smaller blocks with a lot of mixed-use, and the Loop with massive skyscrapers in a regular grid pattern with many massive corporate headquarters.
Those other cities don't have midrise tenement style buildings like New York, do they?
The vast majority of Chicago's 19th century tenements are long gone. We also didn't build brick 6 to 7 story walk up tenements in a concentraded area like NYC did. Many were woodframe, and they were pushed away from the city's core due to decentralized industrial work and the city's building code post-great fire. Tenements
Eh, I don't really see it mostly because the culture is too different. Architecture is also a lot more hodgepodge. I think those are tenement buildings by Nintendo World on 48th st between 6th and 5th? That sort of thing just doesn't fly in other cities. I also find it hard to compare my neighborhood to anywhere else. South St, the closest I can think of, is more akin to Williamsburg to me because things are spaced out too much there (compared to where I am). Also no cat cafes!
Downtown is New York's original downtown, pre-grid, and it's of an age with Boston so there are similarities. Unlike with Philadelphia, the squares are actually later additions to the NYC grid, but they do provide a superficial similarity. I don't think Midtown is much like the Loop; they both have skyscrapers but the big distinguishing characteristic of the Loop is the lakefront, whereas Midtown is inland (as much as you can get inland on a skinny island, anyway).
Downtown is New York's original downtown, pre-grid, and it's of an age with Boston so there are similarities. Unlike with Philadelphia, the squares are actually later additions to the NYC grid, but they do provide a superficial similarity. I don't think Midtown is much like the Loop; they both have skyscrapers but the big distinguishing characteristic of the Loop is the lakefront, whereas Midtown is inland (as much as you can get inland on a skinny island, anyway).
Yea, the area between downtown/financial district and midtown were later additions/developments of New York City so aren't as old as Philadelphia, though Philadelphia. However, the smaller scale streets of parts of Center City resemble West Village / Greenwich Village a bit as does the mix of low-rise rowhouses, mid-rise buildings of different periods and some high-rises all with straight streets and the area being a mix of retail, residences, and offices sort of come of as one.
I think Midtown and the Loop share the abutting to a large park and large skyscrapers in a mostly rectilinear grid patterns (often with wider streets) as well as having a far .greater office/commercial/retail to residency ratio.
For downtown Manhattan and Boston, another similarity is its use of the waterfront as a tourist region and for transportation.
For all of these, its Manhattan analogue seems to be the far denser and densely developed version of these and doesn't really peter out on the edges so much since these are all right next to each other.
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