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If "Downtown" in Manhattan is considered anything below 14th St. Then I don't see how that is not far and a way number one, Manhaatan below 14th street might possibly be the best urban scene in the entire world.
I would rank them:
Manhattan - Downtown
Manhattan - Midtown
Chicago - Downtown
Some photos by me just below 14th street. Note these are not in the skyscraper districts:
IMO, Chicago has the nicer skyscraper district, but overall city center NYC.
New York city is just so massive that many areas below 60th feel like a downtown area. Basically, put some areas between 14th and 34th in another city and it could serve as a legitimate downtown area.
New York city is just so massive that many areas below 60th feel like a downtown area. Basically, put some areas between 14th and 34th in another city and it could serve as a legitimate downtown area.
Yea, I'm confused with the thread title of "downtown". Does the OP mean a CBD/skyscraper zone or just a general city core?
I know what you meant. And again, there is no way in heaven, if you've ever been to Chicago, you'd have the audacity that Manhattan is the equivalent of 4-5 downtown Chicago's (clear enough for you?).
Additionally, and to help provide you with some linear thinking, comparing Manhattan to downtown Chicago (no matter how many) is apples and oranges. If you've noticed, we've spent the last 3-4 pages of this thread on tha fact that Manhattan is not a "downtown".
Assuming one is referring to Manhattan below 59th street, which is arguably a "core" or "downtown", there's lots of office jobs, shopping and entertainment the whole length, although parts of residential, yes it is maybe 4 times downtown chicago.
i was just curios as to what newyorkers thing is the better looking downtown. i have never been to newyork but i know it has a massive downtown. i have been to chicago and it is also very large and there are many great looking buildings including the new 2000ft spire building currently under construction. im from minneapolis and i think its a good looking downtown but nothing compared to chicago or newyork.
Based on the analogy to Chicago where Downtown includes residential and parks areas, New York City's downtown is the entire borough of Manhattan or New York County as is also called. There is no way to even compare these two based on size, population, architecture or prominence. New York City's "downtown" - the borough of Manhattan, if separated from the remaining four counties, would be by itself a 1.7M city dwarfing not just Chicago's downtown but the entire city of Chicago in many, many categories including office space, size of CBDs, number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered there, number of restaurants or cultural amenities such as theaters or art galleries and art museums. Manhattan is the urbanity condensed to the extreme: only a few places on the planet could even think about competing.
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