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Fidi (Whatever Boston's financial district is called).
It's called the Financial District. I think I may have seen it abbreviated in writing as FiDi, but I've never heard someone vocalize that shortening (don't know if they do in NYC).
It’s probably Philly Chicago then Boston. Boston stands in for NYC Al the time and in some shows I’ve seen North Jersey and Downstate like Yo jets has filled in for Boston (season 2 of City in a Hill Is shot entirely in NJ/NY).
On more than one occasion people have said Boston feels like a smaller cleaner NYC I don’t totally see that by in spurts- sure. Phillys urban layout trumps Boston. Chicago for scale/vibrancy downtown.
I’m still lost at San Francisco I spent a week in the heart of San Fran and never did it feel anything like New York.
I have lived in all three cities and can state unequivocally Philly feels like NYC more then the other two .
Philly is dense but Center City is surprisingly small. For the space it does have, I guess the grit and tighter streets offers some comparison, but it is nowhere the scale to approximate to New York. It's different, but the only real rationale comparison for scale, vibrancy, etc., is Chicago. And even then, it's really not even close if you were to compare it to downtown and midtown.
Outside of downtown- because that isn’t the overall-Philly has the most street level activity/walkability and bodegas. Boston had the ethnic tapestry and still a good amount of corner stores/bodegas. Boston had the bridges and water ways and tunnels like NYC. NYC is actually pretty clean for as dense as it is sometimes that feels Boston. But when the trash is out or you’re in the Bronx and the loud deon signs- it’s gives me Philly.
Philly is dense but Center City is surprisingly small. For the space it does have, I guess the grit and tighter streets offers some comparison, but it is nowhere the scale to approximate to New York. It's different, but the only real rationale comparison for scale, vibrancy, etc., is Chicago. And even then, it's really not even close if you were to compare it to downtown and midtown.
You're certainly not wrong about Chicago's much more comparable scale. It ultimately comes down to the metric of comparison.
The fact that Philly and NYC are most proximite to one another, and comprise the northern Mid-Atlantic subregion, gives more of a "cultural interchange" than any other city, which does manifest itself in the urban character. But that's a lot more difficult to quantify.
When selecting a filming location for the 2015 film "Carol", Cincinnati was chosen to stand in for 1950's Manhattan for its abundance of urban authenticity from America's peak urban years.
I haven't read every page of this thread, but I"m guessing this wasn't brought up and that its just the usual back and forth about how its obviously San Francisco, Philly, or Chicago.
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