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I have not seen all of Brooklyn but it seemed like a cool place. Parts of it are quite gritty and ugly though. It's hard to compare a borough to a whole city. It's an apples-oranges comparison.
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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pretty sure this is what detroit is doing.
wouldn't be fair though, south and west sides have some of the nicest parks in the city, they just are surrounded by ghetto and drug dealers. I'd be all for tearing down some of the urban decay but not the historic landmarks.
Even when the demolitions are complete, Detroit will still have a huge problem on its hands. The city has roughly 90,000 abandoned or vacant homes and residential lots, according to Data Driven Detroit, a nonprofit that tracks demographic data for the city.
Unless of course you have the insider information on this.
I have not seen all of Brooklyn but it seemed like a cool place. Parts of it are quite gritty and ugly though. It's hard to compare a borough to a whole city. It's an apples-oranges comparison.
I'll take Chicago here.
Yes, because there are no ugly and gritty parts of Chicago.
Any comparison of a major American city to any of the boroughs of New York is totally a laugh. Manhattan is what most people think New York City looks like and should look like. But Brooklyn and all the other boroughs are unremarkable and almost depressingly plain with blocks of very old 10-story tenement buildings, no trees or grass, garbage in the streets and a not very pleasant odor of too many people living too close to each other. The impression is of a eastern European country when they were under communism. Chicago's inner-city neighborhoods probably resemble Brooklyn but I know from photos that Chicago is far superior to anything Brooklyn can offer. Seriously!
Any comparison of a major American city to any of the boroughs of New York is totally a laugh. Manhattan is what most people think New York City looks like and should look like. But Brooklyn and all the other boroughs are unremarkable and almost depressingly plain with blocks of very old 10-story tenement buildings, no trees or grass, garbage in the streets and a not very pleasant odor of too many people living too close to each other. The impression is of a eastern European country when they were under communism. Chicago's inner-city neighborhoods probably resemble Brooklyn but I know from photos that Chicago is far superior to anything Brooklyn can offer. Seriously!
You can find similarities in any large city (or borough) - that doesn't mean it's a fair comparison. Certainly you can compares blocks of city streets in Brooklyn to those in Queens, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, etc. What is Brooklyn's ranking in the GAWC? It's not there, because it's part of NYC. How does Brooklyn's skyline compare to Chicago's skyline? You can compare one block to another in any city, but you can't compare Brooklyn to Chicago.
Any comparison of a major American city to any of the boroughs of New York is totally a laugh. Manhattan is what most people think New York City looks like and should look like. But Brooklyn and all the other boroughs are unremarkable and almost depressingly plain with blocks of very old 10-story tenement buildings, no trees or grass, garbage in the streets and a not very pleasant odor of too many people living too close to each other. The impression is of a eastern European country when they were under communism. Chicago's inner-city neighborhoods probably resemble Brooklyn but I know from photos that Chicago is far superior to anything Brooklyn can offer. Seriously!
You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
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