What does New York lack despite its size that other Acela metros have? (state, compared)
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This is an informative thread. The Acela corridor is one of those places you don't even realize how much history/information there is until you start digging into it.
i dont get the premise of this thred. n.y.c. is the grandest city in the world.
but for e.g. boston tops it in education, medicine, sports, history, ...
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Sorry no! Boston tops it in arrogance.
Education? Just about EVERY stop on the Acela has its own ivy League university.
Okay you have MIT & Harvard. NY has Columbia University & Cornell. New Haven has Yale University. Providence has Brown University. Philadelphia has University of Pennsylvania. Princeton University in Princeton NJ and Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH are close to Amtrak's other lines.
In fact, I would add the College of William and Mary to the list. It's not an official ivy, but it was chartered in 1693 and Thomas Jefferson was its president. It's also on the Amtrak line.
Medicine? NYC & Philadelphia have top hospitals.
Sports? Baseball? Do you really want to go there?
History? Jamestown, VA was the first permanent English settlement in North America. It had THE first Thanksgiving. The Battle of Yorktown ended the US Revolutionary War. US history was made in D.C. and NYC became the commerce capital of the US - bypassing Boston.
Education? Just about EVERY stop on the Acela has its own ivy League university.
Okay you have MIT & Harvard. NY has Columbia University & Cornell. New Haven has Yale University. Providence has Brown University. Philadelphia has University of Pennsylvania. Princeton University in Princeton NJ and Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH are close to Amtrak's other lines.
In fact, I would add the College of William and Mary to the list. It's not an official ivy, but it was chartered in 1693 and Thomas Jefferson was its president. It's also on the Amtrak line.
Medicine? NYC & Philadelphia have top hospitals.
Sports? Baseball? Do you really want to go there?
History? Jamestown, VA was the first permanent English settlement in North America. It had THE first Thanksgiving. The Battle of Yorktown ended the US Revolutionary War. US history was made in D.C. and NYC became the commerce capital of the US - bypassing Boston.
I showed this to my friend from Princeton who went to Princeton, we both work together in Manhattan and his response was:
“Typical NY arrogance. Please stop associating NJ with NY (insert my real name). This is quite embarrassing” LMAO
I still cant get over that arrogance comment. The jokes really do write themselves haha. Love the dedication tho
Well, I guess arrogance is something you will find in all the big ACELA cities. Although it probably declines as you go down the line southward, especially toward Philadelphia and Baltimore. But in DC, I hear there is alot of hot air in Congress lol.
I agree with this very much. I can’t think of anything NYC doesn’t have that other northeastern cities have.
I've already posted an example: entire blocks that consist entirely, or almost entirely, of Colonial or other pre-Civil War houses and structures, like this one in Society Hill, Philadelphia. The only other Northeast Corridor city that has these in any significant quantity is Boston, where Beacon Hill is full of them.
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Originally Posted by BigCity76
Hmm according to this link it is considered an HBCU by the US Dept of Education.
From the U.S. Department of Education site linked in response to this post:
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The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, defines an HBCU as: “…any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary [of Education] to be a reliable authority as to the quality of training offered or is, according to such an agency or association, making reasonable progress toward accreditation.”
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Medgar Evers College was established in 1970. So while it's a BCU. it's not terribly H, nor would the Education Department consider it one, given that.
I've already posted an example: entire blocks that consist entirely, or almost entirely, of Colonial or other pre-Civil War houses and structures, like this one in Society Hill, Philadelphia. The only other Northeast Corridor city that has these in any significant quantity is Boston, where Beacon Hill is full of them.
From the U.S. Department of Education site linked in response to this post:
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Medgar Evers College was established in 1970. So while it's a BCU. it's not terribly H, nor would the Education Department consider it one, given that.
I am not sure about entire block of colonial buildings (extremely rare) but New York has entire blocks and even neighborhoods of buildings from before the Civil War. Especially in Brooklyn but scattered in the other boroughs, even Manhattan. I wish New York had something like Society Hill though.
Staten Island does have a cool place if you are a history buff - historic Richmond Town. Richmond Town is something like Staten Island's version of Colonial Williamsburgh with buildings from the 1600s to the 1800s. Staten Island is aka Richmond County NY btw.
i dont get the premise of this thred. n.y.c. is the grandest city in the world.
but for e.g. boston tops it in education, medicine, sports, history, ...
?
For English speakers, you could make a good argument for London over New York City in your global cities ranking.
On the Northeast Corridor, Boston is clearly a distant third behind NYC and DC. I think of it as “boutique world class”. Munich is similar. It’s only world class in narrow areas. With housing affordability, it would be tough to relocate to Boston now unless you have home equity in another high cost of living city.
I am not sure about entire block of colonial buildings (extremely rare) but New York has entire blocks and even neighborhoods of buildings from before the Civil War. Especially in Brooklyn but scattered in the other boroughs, even Manhattan. I wish New York had something like Society Hill though.
Staten Island does have a cool place if you are a history buff - historic Richmond Town. Richmond Town is something like Staten Island's version of Colonial Williamsburgh with buildings from the 1600s to the 1800s. Staten Island is aka Richmond County NY btw.
This is correct. Many Brownstone Brooklyn blocks date back to the 1840s. There's been a fight to preserve the last of Walt Whitman's residences for years now.
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