What are the densest, most NYC looking neighborhoods in Chicago? (Lincoln: homes, to live in)

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Tex?Il?

St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh having had a population boom in the 1800s a little earlier, while not going on for miles do have a neighborhoods of rowhouses a little more than Chicago, despite their overall much smaller population and population density.

[Tex?Il?]

Mind explaining the mailman?

[5Lakes]

Originally Posted by Tex?Il?

St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh having had a population boom in the 1800s a little earlier, while not going on for miles do have a neighborhoods of rowhouses a little more than Chicago, despite their overall much smaller population and population density.

I agree. The most "east coast" looking area to me in the Midwest is Over the Rhine in Cincinnati. It's basically all row houses and tenement style buildings like you would see in an older neighborhood in NYC. There is nothing in Chicago that really looks like this.

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As far as Chicago goes, there is a lot of density all over but it does not have that east coast look to it. The densest areas are on the North Side, from downtown all the way up to Rogers Park. Some west and northwest neighborhoods are also very dense. I suppose to most people the most "NYC feeling" areas are problably the Loop, River North, and the Gold Coast.

[MichiVegas]

Nothing in Chicago really feels super similar to Brooklyn (or NYC in general).

If you're asking what's the densest non-downtown neighborhood, the answer would be the North Side lakefront neighborhoods. Probably East Lakeview is the densest, but it has its own unique look. No one would mistake it for a neighborhood in NYC.

[marothisu]

There are areas that have more row homes and the building density is denser than other areas of Chicago. For example, the area of Old Town (or is it Lincoln Park?) north of North Avenue has higher tighter building density, row homes, etc. I'm talking about at like Sedgwick and Willow. It was an area unaffected by the fire of 1871, so the buildings there adhere to a different building code and are closer together. There are other parts north of there in Lincoln Park where there are row homes too. I find those areas more akin to places like Boston though instead of NYC.

Cincinnati does look more like what they're looking for, but you can still find shades of it in Chicago in a few areas. There are sections of town where rowhomes do still exist but not ones that go on for like 6 blocks.

[destroycreate]

Wow! How interesting Cincinnati has that sort of architecture. I wonder how it landed there that way.

I have to say though I think the rowhomes in Chicago are architecturally prettier than those of the East Coast, but I wish they weren't so spread out.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by destroycreate

Wow! How interesting Cincinnati has that sort of architecture. I wonder how it landed there that way.

Cincinnati has a lot of Germany heritage and is still by a large margin the top heritage in that city. The thing with Chicago is that there were parts that did look more like Europe awhile ago. Then for some of it, the fire of 1871 happened and they could re-invent the city. Other areas of town may not have been burned down, but for whatever reason some areas were torn down years later. I think Chicago from pictures looked more European too when it had the huge street car system in many areas too. Funny enough, I believe Chicago at one point had one of the largest street railway system in the entire world before the 1950s.

As I mentioned before though, there are some areas of town in Chicago, small areas, that have kind of preserved this in small doses.

[baileyvpotter]

Originally Posted by Irishtom29

We have gangways, alleys and often (usually perhaps) grass between the buildings and the sidewalks and the sidewalks and the street. By the time Chicago was built Americans realized they had huge amounts of room.

Originally Posted by It'sAutomatic

We mostly have separated apartment buildings instead of rowhouses.

Areas that boomed in the 1920s, such as Uptown, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Hyde Park, and South Shore look like parts of Brooklyn that boomed in the same time (Brighton Beach and East Flatbush come to mind), though our apartment buildings are capped at 4 stories instead of your 6. I do think these outer neighborhoods look much better in Chicago than yours, though maybe the prairie-style buildings and the gobs of trees just make them feel like home to me.

Chicago has 3-4 flats throughout the city with gangways but also different flats which butt up to
another building. Some remaining rowhouses in the NY sense are;

Pullman: Unique Historic Town in Chicago Neighborhood | Urban Splatter

Rare Lincoln Park Row House Hits the Market - Lincoln Park - DNAinfo.com Chicago

[Jesse69]

Dense area = hard to find parking for your car! NYC is nice to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. There's still a lot of people in Chicago to people watch too. If I won a $100 million + lotto I'd surely visit NYC for 8 weeks maybe.

[marothisu]

You don't need $100 million to visit NYC for 8 weeks..LOL