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Yeah, I don't now what Brahn is talking about. It's like he tries to put Atlanta on blast or something. There is nothing in downtown Atlanta modeled after NYC except the flatiron building lol which isn't nearly as tall or hulking as it's NYC counterpart.
It is not nearly as beautiful as its NYC counterpart
Atlanta's Flatiron Building came first ... so we could be saying that Atlanta inspired NYC architecture! Midtown's Georgian Terrace and Ponce Condominiums (the curved building at Ponce and Peachtree) both have Classic NYC elements. The historic buildings of the Farlie-Poplar District downtown -- especially the Healy and Hurt buildings -- most certainly are reflective of the grand old buildings that dominated NYC before skyscrapers, though not on the scale perhaps.
Also, many of the apartment buildings in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward neighborhood (particularly along Boulevard) were modeled on Brooklyn tenements and were built at the turn of the last century primary for Jewish immigrants who were moving South.
Though Atlanta was a much smaller city at the time, there was still an enormous influx of NYC wealth and influence during the latter part of the 1800s into the 1920s and until the stock market crash. This is when Georgia adopted the moniker "Empire State of the South." So yes, there are most DEFINITELY places in Atlanta that will remind you of New York -- if you squint your eyes and let yourself imagine "what if." Had there not been a Great Depression, I wonder what kind of city Atlanta would be today -- another Chicago?
So yes, there are most DEFINITELY places in _______ that will remind you of New York -- if you squint your eyes and let yourself imagine "what if." Had there not been a ________, I wonder what kind of city ______ would be today -- another Chicago?
New Orleans, barrage of events spanning decades of population loss, New Orleans
The Northeast = Broadway. If Broadway is the central artery that transmits commerce and ideas throughout the island of Manhattan, Roosevelt Blvd.—or “The Bully”—serves the same purpose for northeast Philadelphia; a sprawling section of the city created by a sweat-soaked three-way between white flight, unbridled mass-market consumerism, and ****-poor urban planning.
There isn't anywhere on Roosevelt Blvd that compares to the theater on Broadway, which makes it a down-right strange comparison. I also really don't see the area as unbridled mass-market consumerism, though maybe I'm thinking of the wrong stretch?
Montreal actually feels a bit like Brooklyn, but it's hard to pin exactly. The Plateau-East Village and
Mile End and Outremont-Williamsburg are the parallels that quickly come to mind.
NDG is a solidly middle class interwar neighborhood with a mix of rowhouses, SFHs and lots of low-rise apartments and a sizeable Jewish population (maybe Forest Hills, Queens?)
Cote de Neiges is the most diverse neighborhood in the city, formerly Jewish/Italian, giving way to Southeast Asians, South Asians, West Indians, Africans and Latin Americans (maybe Jackson Heights, Queens?)
That's very interesting. Does London have any equivalent nabes to Harlem, East Village, Alphabet City, Washington Heights, Morningside Heights, Flatiron District, Kips Bay, Battery Park City, West Village, Koreatown, South Bronx, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Corona, Forest Hills, Astoria, Bed-Stuy, Flatbush, Jamaica/South Jamaica, The Hub/Melrose, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, etc.?
Here's what I think: Piccadilly Circus=Times Square, Westminster=Civic Center, The City of London=Midtown, Canary Wharf=Financial District, Soho=East Village, Chinatown=Chinatown, and Lambeth=Crown Heights/East Flatbush.
I haven't visit London yet mind you, these are just guesses based off of what some of the London neighborhoods and boroughs have to offer after researching and reading about them.
Apart from Harlem being analogous to Brixton, it's much harder to just take a neighborhood in New York and find a comparison in London than you'd think; the land uses are almost completely different, as is the urban form and how locales piece together, let alone who actually lives there. However, the really easy one is this:
Midtown: West End (but there's still an intangible difference that makes the West End much more bearable)
Downtown/Financial District: City of London
Jersey City: Canary Wharf
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London isn't as segregated as NYC, and it's white. There's nothing like Harlem or the South Bronx in London. The City of London = Downtown / Financial District. Westminster = Midtown + shopping areas to the south. Canary Wharf = Jersey City waterfront. Whitechapel = Lower East Side in some ways [historically both got eastern European immigrants]
As above, Harlem is pretty similar to Brixton, but Brixon is changing at a far faster pace.
London is certainly segregated, but unlike New York and American cities, it's far more based on class than race; it is by no means a "white" city, although as a percentage of residents London is probably more white than New York due to immigration from Continental Europe. It's more diverse than New York, but divisions between ethnic areas are much more amorphous, but that's because London is a collection of villages that became increasingly urban and merged together, in many ways like Queens (this is readily apparent if you visit parts of North London such as Wood Green).
Those are all over the US. There's plenty of 24 hour McDonalds open at the window in average and boring suburban areas.
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