How Do You Define "Uptown?" (New York, Fairmount: houses, theatre)

[ShirlMastic Beach]

Was the term upper Manhattan ever used pre modern day gentrification? Or was it invented by realtors so that they didn't have to go by actual neighborhood name of harlem?

[Fitzrovian]

Originally Posted by G-Dale

"The city," along with the rest of Manhattan that is south of 59th st. Uptown is not part of "the city." It has more in common with the outer boros.

So "the city" has a downtown and a midtown but no uptown?

[ShirlMastic Beach]

Originally Posted by Fitzrovian

So "the city" has a downtown and a midtown but no uptown?

That's correct.

I find it very surprising how many people here consider the UES and UWS as uptown.

[StuddedLeather]

Originally Posted by G-Dale

"The city," along with the rest of Manhattan that is south of 59th st. Uptown is not part of "the city." It has more in common with the outer boros.

This is a contradiction! How does this even make sense to you?

[ShirlMastic Beach]

Originally Posted by StuddedLeather

This is a contradiction! How does this even make sense to you?

What's the contradiction? Makes total sense to me. When I say that I'm going to the city, I'm going somewhere south of 110th st. When I'm going uptown, I'm going north of 110th st. That simple.

To me the city is downtown, midtown, UES and UWS. I personally do not think of uptown or upper Manhattan as the city.

[SeventhFloor]

I'm not even gonna argue....if you from the hood, we call uptown Harlem and the Bronx.

[likeminas]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

if you from the hood, we call uptown Harlem and the Bronx.

That's what I thought.

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by likeminas

That's what I thought.

Hey it is what it is.

[Fitzrovian]

Originally Posted by G-Dale

What's the contradiction? Makes total sense to me. When I say that I'm going to the city, I'm going somewhere south of 110th st. When I'm going uptown, I'm going north of 110th st. That simple.

To me the city is downtown, midtown, UES and UWS. I personally do not think of uptown or upper Manhattan as the city.

So the city has a downtown and a midtown, but the area above midtown, which includes Upper East Side and Upper West Side, for some reason is not Uptown; Uptown is not even a part of the city. Terminologically this makes no sense. And as someone who has lived in the City for 15 years I can tell you that I have never thought of it this way.

[mayorofnyc]

Uptown = Harlem, The Heights, & the Bronx