What are the most urban neighborhoods with no subway access? (Ridge: best neighborhoods, houses)
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Some suburban neighborhoods with subway access are Middle Village, Dyker Heights, Midwood, Bensonhurst, Howard Beach, South Ozone Park, Jamaica Estates, and Canarsie.
No comment on the others, but that's a high bar for urban if Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst are suburban given how many multi-unit dwellings and row houses are in each (though some of the rowhouses are just twins).
I can see it for Dyker Heights if you're just talking about the southernmost part near the golf course; that's also a good distance away from subway stations, so that might fit the topic as a subsection of a neighborhood.
No comment on the others, but that's a high bar for urban if Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst are suburban given how many multi-unit dwellings and row houses are in each (though some of the rowhouses are just twins).
I can see it for Dyker Heights if you're just talking about the southernmost part near the golf course; that's also a good distance away from subway stations, so that might fit the topic as a subsection of a neighborhood.
I agree about Bensonhurst, it looks/feels pretty urban to me even if it's mostly low rise.
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Originally Posted by G-Dale
Woodhaven is probably the most urban neighborhood in Jamaica.
No comment on the others, but that's a high bar for urban if Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst are suburban given how many multi-unit dwellings and row houses are in each (though some of the rowhouses are just twins).
I can see it for Dyker Heights if you're just talking about the southernmost part near the golf course; that's also a good distance away from subway stations, so that might fit the topic as a subsection of a neighborhood.
I guess so. Then probably have to say the same for Middle Village as well. It just feels nice and quiet down there.
Although Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst seem to be made up of mostly standalone or semi-attached housing without a large stock of bigger apartment buildings or even 3 - 6 family dwellings. Lots of driveways too. For places with subway stops, they are pretty suburban.
^ Dyker Heights, yes, I'd call it largely suburban.
Bensonhurst though...definitely very urban. I lived there for over a decade. Yes, there are lots of quite streets with 2-4 family homes only (particularly closer to the dyker heights border) but Bay Parkway, 18th ave, 86th st and to a lesser extent 20th ave and New Utrecht are all commercial and very busy thoroughfares. There is also a good amount of large apartment buildings peppered in throughout.
Although Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst seem to be made up of mostly standalone or semi-attached housing without a large stock of bigger apartment buildings or even 3 - 6 family dwellings. Lots of driveways too. For places with subway stops, they are pretty suburban.
A lot of Dyker is not near a subway or is a long walk so many take the express bus especially the more monies areas of the neighorhood.
A lot of you need to go back to urban planning 101
Suburbs does not automatically equal just houses
Not does urban equal just buildings.
That how much living here has warped you guys brains.
It’s also because the word is commonly used in roughly three different ways. One is the build and function of an area which is what most people in this topic are doing, another is a description that refers to cultural characteristics of people living in what were often rougher conditions within a city, and another is to denote the relationship between municipalities. These all get conflated in varying degrees sometimes.
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