City with Two Downtowns?

[BKafrican1]

Originally Posted by BPt111

What about Long Island City Queens look like mini Manhattan especially on 7 train and driving around. NYC skyline from LGA airport look very impressive you can see two separate skylines lower Manhattan and midtown. You have another baby skyline by Downtown Flushing Queens.

Long Island city isn’t a downtown

[BKafrican1]

Originally Posted by Arcenal813

LIC doesn't feel like a "downtown." It's a small area with highrises... And again, highrises do not make a place "downtown."
Let's be real here; If you want to call LIC "downtown," NYC has like 10 downtowns at least.

Yes, there’s only two official downtown in New York City. I wish the post would have said central business district or skylines instead of downtowns. Most cities in the US do not have two official downtowns

[Gantz]

Originally Posted by Arcenal813

LIC doesn't feel like a "downtown." It's a small area with highrises... And again, highrises do not make a place "downtown."
Let's be real here; If you want to call LIC "downtown," NYC has like 10 downtowns at least.

I think technically Queens also has a few downtowns, since some of the neighborhoods used to be cities. Like, there is 'downtown Flushing' complete with a street named 'Main street', etc. leftover legacy from the fact that they used to be independent colonial settlements. Jamaica is another one.

[SonnyDaze]

LIC definitely lacks many traits of a traditional downtown but the area between Queens Plaza and Court Square has a decent volume of office space interspersed between the hotels and residential high rises.

27-01 Queens Plaza North (7 stories/JetBlue Headquarters/MetLife/WeWork)
28-11 Queens Plaza North (9 stories/DOE/DOT)
42-09 28th Street (22 stories/DOHMH)
28-10 Queens Plaza South/28-07 Jackson Ave (Two 26-story towers as part of JACX office development)
27-35 Jackson Ave (4 stories/DOE)
1 Court Square (50 stories/former Citicorp building)
2 Court Square (15 stories/CUNY School of Law)

[wanderer34]

Atlanta (Downtown and Midtown)
Chicago (Loop and River North)
Cleveland (Downtown Cleveland and University Circle)
Detroit (Downtown Detroit and New Center)
Los Angeles (Downtown LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Century City)
Miami (Downtown Miami and Brickell)
New York (Downtown and Midtown Manhattan; Downtown Brooklyn; Long Island City; Jamaica; The Hub; Fordham; St. George)
Philadelphia (Center City and University City)
Pittsburgh (Downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland)