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Get 'em. I mean, once you cross the George Washington Bridge, you're in Jersey's bucolic suburbia. Outside of that 22 sq. miles of fun called Manhattan (really just 14 sq. mi. or so after discounting Upper Manhattan), NYC is kinda weak if you think about it.
I wouldn't go that far. Brooklyn does have that world famous bowling alley, after all.
Manhattan - 15 sq. miles o' fun
Brooklyn - 12 sq. miles o' fun
Philly - 2.5 sq. miles o' fun
Boston - 4 sq. miles o' fun
DC - 6 sq. miles o' fun
Chicago - 10 sq. miles o' fun
Los Angeles - 100 sq. miles o' fun
Wilshire Blvd is a 16 mile blvd that connects densely built up areas like Santa Monica, Westwood, Century City, Beverly Hills, Koreatown, and Downtown LA. Being 16 miles long, its going to have gaps between the built up areas that are less dense and more auto-oriented. You two have managed to highlight the two least dense areas on the entire strip: Hancock Park and and the Wilshire/Union part of Westlake.
But since you mentioned NYC and Chicago can you please point me to a street in each city that manages that has no gaps for 16 miles, since that's the standard that you're holding Wilshire up to? Its only fair. Thanks!
Spoiler alert: At its longest, Manhattan is 13.4 miles long.
The problem is your gaps soon as you leave downtown. Game over. There is really no consistent singular mile on the entire road, the whole thing is patchy and hostile towards pedestrians. LA certainly has square urban areas and walkable neighborhoods that compare, but as far as a built up street, Wilshire isn't a good comparison.
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Originally Posted by RaymondChandlerLives
Most of these urban monsters are borderline rural away from their 4-5 sq miles 'o' fun. Ragging on 16 mile Wilshire Boulevard when McLean Virginia--a mere 11 miles from Paris Jr. (DC), looks like a folksy township? Please.
What about Dedham, MA--12 miles from Boston. Now this is urbanity on a large scale:
The Manhattan comparison was way off though. Now doubt about that.
Yes it compares better with those cities but the guy acts like it's 5th avenue or Broadway, that's the problem. I would never pick the streets out just to rag, it's more to show how delusional radiolibre is. I didn't really have to go far before the difference is clearly obviously not similar.
The problem is your gaps soon as you leave downtown. Game over. There is really no consistent singular mile on the entire road, the whole thing is patchy and hostile towards pedestrians.
But that area has a higher walkscore than many neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
A lot of those parking lots are in front of two-story strip malls that are jam-packed loaded full of amenities.
But those aren't as action-packed as Brooklyn's front facing corner bodegas and smoke shops.
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