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NYC has much more history than Philly or Boston ... you guys only focus on the early years of these cities, but NYC has a LOT of recent history. NYC was America, still is.
NYC has much more history than Philly or Boston ... you guys only focus on the early years of these cities, but NYC has a LOT of recent history. NYC was America, still is.
True, but early years can be thought of as having a lot more influence than recent ones. Sort of like the seed that grows into the trunks, branches, and leaves. The other thing is how many markers of that history a city keeps. If it all gets plowed over, then it's sort of lost (like in quite a few cities of East Asia).
True, but early years can be thought of as having a lot more influence than recent ones. Sort of like the seed that grows into the trunks, branches, and leaves. The other thing is how many markers of that history a city keeps. If it all gets plowed over, then it's sort of lost (like in quite a few cities of East Asia).
New York City is the best place in the country to see the history of America from about the post-Civil War period through the 1930s in a lot of ways... You can see the whole progression through the waves of European immigrants that swept the country in the late 18th Century to the grand buildings and later skyscrapers built as America grew towards it's eventual role as the world's superpower. But part of this meant that a lot of the old history of New York was being built over frequently. The Dutch history and original architecture of Manhattan has been lost in a lot of ways since the Civil War. The few remnants of this period are usually resedential homes further out in the midst of the bouroughs that survived and were restored as historic monuments.
It's also because New York has so many other famous tourist attractions that the Colonial-era buildings that remain aren't heavily promoted as tourist attractions. You can walk right by Federal Hall or the Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan and not really notice them--and the scale of much of the city is so much larger than the oldest buildings seem tiny in comparison. In Boston, the colonial buildings that remain are heavily promoted with the Freedom Trail tour, while in Philadelphia you have a whole area of colonial sites around the Old City area. When people think of history they naturally seek out the oldest surviving and notable buildings--people aren't as drawn to a place like the Tenement Musuem on the Lower East Side as much as a place like the Old State House in Boston.
You're out of your skull and have no idea what you're talking about.
Why thank you for your thoughtful post. It surely contributes a lot to the discussion on the topic of this thread. What a shame you didn't seem able to rebut anything from my post. And instead just had to throw out insults and call names.
Someone did yesterday and then C-D aborted the thread. Whoever made THAT new list atleast had enough sense to put Jamestown and St. Augustine up there.SMH.
it was me. JMT deleted it... of course. City-data forum has no interest in making factual threads. Instead, we'll just continue to post the same threads over and over again with th same 10 cities to pick from, even when none of them make sense. Historic Value thread and most of the important U.S. cities arn't evempn n option lol. What a joke
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