Don’t Look Back, Brooklyn; Houston Is Gaining on You (difference, downtown)

[mas23]

for those who are not familiar
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=oak+pa...102.83,,0,0.27

^more urban than alot of neighborhoods IN the city

[john_starks]

Originally Posted by migol84

Kinda like with you and Reggaeton?

lol

[eek]

the sign is a throwback sign from the 70's. wouldn't bk in 2010 (if it were its own city) be the 2nd or 3rd largest city in the country with queens coming in 3rd, 4th or 5th or something like that? at least i think that was on wiki awhile back...

[JJG]

Originally Posted by Energy_Fin_Guy

Miami is beautiful.....

You LOVE stereotypes, don't ya?

[polo89]

Originally Posted by RenaudFR

It would still be the fourth largest city in America, but for how much longer?
This afternoon, Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, will unveil an iconic 1970s-vintage highway sign that carries the boast “Welcome to Brooklyn: the 4th Largest City in America.” The sign, presented to Mr. Markowitz recently by a restaurateur, might (but might not) be the actual one immortalized in the opening title sequence of “Welcome Back, Kotter,” borough officials say.


Houston Threatens Brooklyn as Fourth-Largest City - NYTimes.com

That's true, I did see that sign on Welcome Back Kotter. But I always thought to myself, Houston is the 4th largest city, since it's an actual city. Brooklyn can't just pick and choose whether it wants to be a borough or city. It's either not a borugh, and therefore NYC only has 4 boroughs, or it's not a city. Can't have both.

[polo89]

Originally Posted by Nafster

Who cares who's bigger?

Brooklyn will always be more cultural, fun, and noteworthy.

Houston can have 10M people and still be lightyears behind it.

How is Houston light-years behind Brooklyn? In what way?

[polo89]

Originally Posted by grapico

The underground geology of NYC at sea level is much different than Miami or most places in Florida.



aquifer map, you could technically swim under Florida through the underground water caves.

That's awesome. That's why Miami doesn't have water problems. Well, it's awesome and bad in a sense.

[Infamous92]

Originally Posted by polo89

That's true, I did see that sign on Welcome Back Kotter. But I always thought to myself, Houston is the 4th largest city, since it's an actual city. Brooklyn can't just pick and choose whether it wants to be a borough or city. It's either not a borugh, and therefore NYC only has 4 boroughs, or it's not a city. Can't have both.

Lol it's not that serious.

For a city as physically large as Houston is I'm very surprised it's not already ahead of Brooklyn.

I can say I'm from the largest city in the U.S. or the 5th largest in the U.S. (Queens) lol.

[Infamous92]

Originally Posted by grapico

The underground geology of NYC at sea level is much different than Miami or most places in Florida.



aquifer map, you could technically swim under Florida through the underground water caves.

What the hell, that's very odd.

Both are part of The Atlantic Coastal Plain though.

[polo89]

Yeah, to answer the others arguing about Miami, for the most part, Miami is suburban. And about Chicago's burbs, Cicero is pretty dense from what I've seen(on TV and stuff) and I knew someone from Cicero. And Houston has some dense suburban areas it's self, inside the beltway of course.