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I was curious about this after engaging in some interesting dialogue in another thread. What would you consider to be NYC's equivalent to the downtowns in cities like Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, Cleveland, Baltimore, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Washington, DC, etc?
We already know that NYC technically has a "downtown," which is considered Lower Manhattan. I'm asking what NYC's equivalent would be to downtowns in other cities.
Because it's intense....all of it. The only reason I wouldn't include UES and UWS is because above 59th the balance tips a little more towards residential,though barely.
This is plainly simple. Just go to Queens and look towards the west and one shall see two mountains of high rise buildings in two locations. One that stretches from 59th Street to 34 Street and the other that stretches from canal street down to the battery Park.
For a rough equivelent I'd have went with midtown only as most other cities have more going on in their "downtown" than our financial district has. Midtown on the other hand hits every point of every "downtown" in every American city that I've been to.
there woudn't specifcally be a typical american downtown neightborhood in Manhatan. Each section of Manhattan does posses some downtown like corners though.
-32 & BWay
-34th and 6th
-14th and Broadway
-Fulton & Broadway
-West 4th & 6th
you could go on for days.
I would say that Main Street and Roosevelt in Flushing has the most downtown feel to it of any area in the entire city, based primarily off of the fact that it is a transport hub, the amount of shopping and amenities and the enormous amount of foot traffic for the size.
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