New Yorkers are weird, except for Trump.
New Yorkers are weird, except for Trump.
Chicago had a Downtown. And a North Side and a South Side.
South Sider here. Husband’s from the North. Amazed we got together from those two different worlds.
Depends. You want happy ending?
Midtown is Broadway.
Downtown is Wall Street.
Uptown is Central Park.
-PJ
Uptown, Midtown, Downtown - it all depends on where the toilets flush to.
I agree with the other comments. The whole idea of the business district being “downtown” comes from New York where you literally go down (in terms of numbered streets and South) to get to Wall Street.
I’m a big fan of Motown.
Charlotte, NC has an uptown. It sits on the highest point in the area.
I learned so much about adults when as a little boy I would take the bus to downtown Houston and just spend the days watching everyone and walking around, as a little boy I was invisible to the busy adults doing everything from business to shopping, to street gambling and walking through almost invisible nondescript doors that were obviously whore houses, hustlers hustling, meter maids, winos fighting, black men with no legs on roller boards making them shorter than me, oyster bars open to the sidewalk, it was a massively entertaining and educational environment.
Atlanta has a midtown, but if it has an uptown, that’s a fairly new development.
DallasBiff likely knows this, but for others here:
Dallas has a downtown and an uptown, but not midtown. Uptown is across a sunken freeway from downtown. Big Law has all moved from near the courthouse to Uptown. Most of downtown is residential now. Uptown is a mix of high dollar commercial, high dollar residential high rise, and bars.
Uptown and Downtown Dallas are connected by antique trolleys (modernized with air conditioning).
Because Whittier, Calif. sits on a gentle slope extending downward from the Whittier Hills, the business district. which is close to the hills, is officially known as Uptown Whittier, and that’s what most residents call it. However, those of us living in College Hills, just east of Whittier College and at a higher elevation, refer to it as Downtown Whittier.
With qualifications, conservatives have reason to see this trend as beneficial and an example of what Edmund Burke referred to as “the little platoon we belong to in society” and “the germ of public affections.” In practice, this can provide a basis for community organization and push-back against the often corrupt, stupid, and thuggish plans hatched by politicians and political elites.
Downtown Brooklyn is above a hell of a lot of Brooklyn.
I remember taking a picture in Nashville decades ago of a Midtown Commons building. Reflected in the window was the West End Bookstore across the street. Never had thought Nashville was so small.
New York is a concentration of diverse riff raff and is obsolete
Philadelphia has North Philly (no-man’s land), Center City (business and cultural district) and South Philly, also known as Downtown (neighborhoods, roughly equivalent to Brooklyn).
It also has many other distinct sections to the east and the west in the “middle” of the city boundaries, as well as farther out. People from Philly can almost tell where you live by small variations in the Philadelphia accent. If they hear you are born there, they will ask, “Yeah? What corner you from?”
New York has a Downtown Financial District and a Midtown Business District. Most cities have a combined Downtown Financial and Business District, but doing a search, I find a lot of cities claim to have a Midtown. Maybe it’s some real estate marketing gimmick, or maybe it’s just that there’s always some place just outside Downtown.