Posted on 10/12/2019 1:45:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Known as The City That Never Sleeps, it is not surprising that New York has recently appointed a night mayor -- a public servant employed to govern the city’s nighttime activities. But the nation’s largest city is not the only place with a nightlife. As the sun sets, night brings to all urban centers an entirely different population with a very different set of characteristics.
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of young college graduates moving to the downtowns of major cities. While the precise reasons for the shift from suburbanization to urbanization among young professionals are up for debate, one pull factor is the large number of entertainment and nightlife amenities concentrated in city centers.
A growing number of academics and urban planners have turned their attention in the last few decades toward the entertainment and nightlife ecosystem, or night economy. Although definitions of the nighttime economy vary and a lack of data makes the sector difficult to study on a large scale, most researchers agree that the night economy runs from around 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and encompasses those who enjoy the night, and work during the night.
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Hookers...drugs...have I missed anything?
Climate scientists.
Bloggers.
Media figgers.
Restaurants, bars, nightclubs in trendy urban neighborhoods are nothing new. These places attract yuppies, which is not news.
Was thinking the same... But you did forget ‘Target Practice on Humans’
I’ve heard that nothing good happens after midnight.
“...there has been a resurgence of young college graduates moving to the downtowns of major cities...”
Good...the victims go to where the criminals are.
Hospitals. Janitors. Street sweepers. Postal workers. Our world doesn’t work too well without those night time folks.
I dunno. When I was in my teens and twenty's a LOT of good happened after midnight.
I preferred it, you could get more done with less hassle.
You could pick your daytime hours to sleep and get stuff done.
Most folks have no idea how much action there is at night.
Air and surface freight, aircraft maintenance, manufacturing, troubleshooting and repairs, construction and repairs, food preparation, milking cows, harvesting crops and a LOT more.
I just wish check in and checkout times at hotels could be geared for night travelers to sleep in the day, as well as more restaurants
I had a long early AM layover at JFK Airport....the place was surprisingly inactive.
I did third shift at a bank processing checks and I loved it. It was from Sun to Thursday 10 to 4, I was in school for computer processing at the time. I came home at 5, went to bed for 5 hours, went to class for 2 hours then Listened to Rush (when he was just starting out) for 3 hours, then slept for 3 more hours.
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