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Originally Posted by prelude91
sounds as if you have no idea what you are talking about....The financial district in lower manhattan is very quiet after hours.
Very quiet for New York and very quiet for Chicago are two different worlds.
Manhattan never gets very quiet. It just gets less loud and the crowds are much sparser. When I said 'the Loop', I meant downtown Chicago. I forget sometimes that the Loop is strictly the finance center to Chicagoans. What should be clear is that NY is a city that literally does not sleep. Chicago has some taverns and clubs where people stay out until 4am, but the downtown area winds down considerably long before that. The sidewalks all but fold up in some areas, and the action is moved elsewhere. New York is still much more of a lively city after hours than CHicago.
sounds as if you have no idea what you are talking about....The financial district in lower manhattan is very quiet after hours.
I work in Manhattan's Financial District -- its certainly quiet (particularly for New York standards) after business hours, but its definitely not dead. There are plenty of people milling around after hours. In fact, Lower Manhattan is NYC's fastest growing neighborhood, especially with the large number of office to condo conversions in the past decade.
I work in Manhattan's Financial District -- its certainly quiet (particularly for New York standards) after business hours, but its definitely not dead. There are plenty of people milling around after hours. In fact, Lower Manhattan is NYC's fastest growing neighborhood, especially with the large number of office to condo conversions in the past decade.
Hmm...we were milling around down there on a Saturday afternoon about a month ago, and didn't pass too many other people. Almost didn't feel like NYC to me. Perhaps it's getting more populated, but it definitely wasn't "happening".
That was really about the only place in Manhattan where that was true, though. NYC most definitely provides the ultimate "city experience" in the U.S. Everything else is a distant second.
For sure...but you can still have a fantastic (traditional) city life in places like San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, DC...
New York certainly isn't the only answer to this question.
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