What are the densest, most NYC looking neighborhoods in Chicago? (Naperville: lofts, taxes)

[Tex?Il?]

Originally Posted by 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.

Cincinnati was the first midwest city to become large.

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[It'sAutomatic]

Originally Posted by 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.

Cincinnati was a boom town even before Chicago. More importantly, there were significant geographic constraints: the downtown/Over-The-Rhine/West End area is a basin surrounded by huge hills, big enough that the technology to integrate a settlement past them with the city did not exist in the 1860s. So in the established city, they built "up" instead of "out".

[Libertine]

I would say in terms of feel or look alongside density, parts of Hyde Park, Uptown, and the eastern sections of Lincoln Park and Lakeview East resemble parts of Prospect Lefferts, Windsor Terrace, and Bay Ridge in Brooklyn and Rego Park/Forest Hills/Kew Gardens and downtown Jamaica in Queens.

Honestly, to me, the most New York feeling neighborhoods in Chicago have always been Noble Square or Central Pilsen, the tenement look just feels like parts of Greenpoint or a slightly less dense version of East Village or East Harlem.

Most of Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan and all of the Bronx and Staten Island, look and feel very different from Chicago (except for maybe the Loop and a handful of blocks in North Streeterville and the Gold Coast could pass for certain parts of Manhattan).

They're often compared (especially by Chicagoans), but in many ways, New York and Chicago are very different cities.

[Nafster]

Originally Posted by Tex?Il?

Mind explaining the mailman?

Perhaps its the self proclaimed suburbanites who left the Midwest thinking they're experts on Chicago.

Yeah, I think that's it.

[glass_of_merlot]

You have to be a millionaire to live in NYC according to many people

[Nafster]

Originally Posted by glass_of_merlot

You have to be a millionaire to live in NYC according to many people

Well those many people are wrong.

Over 8 Million people in New York are not millionaires.

[Tex?Il?]

Originally Posted by Nafster

Perhaps its the self proclaimed suburbanites who left the Midwest thinking they're experts on Chicago.

Yeah, I think that's it.

Yes, we all know that having an address immediately outside the city limits automatically makes one a rube, even if they were in the city frequently for work and for entertainment/socializing, because transportation and the internet don't exist.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by Irishtom29

By the time Chicago was built Americans realized they had huge amounts of room.

agreed. except for a thoroughly packed in tip of a peninsula in San Francisco Bay. Even in the midwest, topography plays its part: relatively small Madison gives a real sense of density because it is crammed into an isthmus between two lakes.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by It'sAutomatic

Cincinnati was a boom town even before Chicago. More importantly, there were significant geographic constraints: the downtown/Over-The-Rhine/West End area is a basin surrounded by huge hills, big enough that the technology to integrate a settlement past them with the city did not exist in the 1860s. So in the established city, they built "up" instead of "out".

real settlement in the Midwest truly did begin along the banks of the Ohio.

[prelude91]

Originally Posted by glass_of_merlot

You have to be a millionaire to live in NYC according to many people

We'll according to many people humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time