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Old 05-30-2009, 10:42 PM
 
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No, I don't think so. S.F's downtown overall cannot compare to Boston's. However, I think S.F deserves to be #4.

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Its actually the opposite.

Boston's downtown is lively and vibrant but SFs is more so.

The only place that I've been to in the US that actually surpasses DT SF as far as far as overall vibrancy is NYC.
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Old 05-31-2009, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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No, I don't think so. S.F's downtown overall cannot compare to Boston's. However, I think S.F deserves to be #4.
Overall?

Overall, DT SF is number 2. And deservedly so.
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Old 05-31-2009, 10:25 AM
 
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1. NYC
2. Chicago
3. Boston, SF, DC
4. Philadelphia
5. Seattle
6. Minneapolis
7. Portland
8. Denver
9. ...eh...

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Old 05-31-2009, 11:08 AM
 
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This is very close to mine. I put DC, San Francisco after Boston.
#9 should be San Diego.

#9? I guess

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1. NYC
2. Chicago
3. Boston, SF, DC
4. Philadelphia
5. Seattle
6. Minneapolis
7. Portland
8. Denver
9. ...eh...
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Old 05-31-2009, 11:17 AM
 
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This is very close to mine. I put DC, San Francisco after Boston.
#9 should be San Diego.

#9? I guess
Yeah I originally had Boston 3, SF 4, DC 5...then changed it and just put all of them at 3... Kind of a matter of taste... I guess I could give Boston the slight edge if I HAD to also.
yeah I could do #9 San Diego but after that it is very hard to pick, thus I didn't even bother.
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Old 05-31-2009, 11:29 AM
 
Location: where my heart is
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I was born and raised in Manhattan. What is downtown NYC? The ENTIRE borough of Manhattan, because "NYC" really doesn't have any defined downtown using the criteria of other cities.

Geographically, from about the Village down to Wall Street would be considered "downtown", but what exactly do you want to do? Go around the Wall Street area after dark and on weekends, and it is pretty deserted. Yes, the Village is culturally better and going 24/7, but so is MidTown or "UptTown".

NYC doesn't really have a downtown. In this regard, if you are only considering the borough of Manhattan as NYC, all of Manhattan is really one big "downtown".
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Old 05-31-2009, 11:34 AM
 
Location: South Carolina
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This is very close to mine. I put DC, San Francisco after Boston.
#9 should be San Diego.

#9? I guess
What a coincidence. I have San Diego as my #9 too! (page 4)
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Old 05-31-2009, 02:51 PM
 
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I was born and raised in Manhattan. What is downtown NYC? The ENTIRE borough of Manhattan, because "NYC" really doesn't have any defined downtown using the criteria of other cities.

Geographically, from about the Village down to Wall Street would be considered "downtown", but what exactly do you want to do? Go around the Wall Street area after dark and on weekends, and it is pretty deserted. Yes, the Village is culturally better and going 24/7, but so is MidTown or "UptTown".

NYC doesn't really have a downtown. In this regard, if you are only considering the borough of Manhattan as NYC, all of Manhattan is really one big "downtown".
I think by downtown they mean like the main built up part of the city. Like a Business district
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Old 05-31-2009, 03:26 PM
 
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Default Wall Street and the Stock Market are downtown

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I think by downtown they mean like the main built up part of the city. Like a Business district
but other corporate headquarters are Uptown. There is no one area that is a business district in Manhattan. I suppose that makes it unique.
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Old 05-31-2009, 04:06 PM
 
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If you split Manhattan into Uptown, Midtown, and Downtown, then I'd count both Midtown and Downtown as the official "Downtown" for the purpose of this discussion. You can't just count Lower Manhattan, because Midtown is the largest concentration of business in Manhattan, and you can't just count Midtown, because then you exclude economic behemoths like Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. So I say either take all of Manhattan as "downtown New York" or take everything in Manhattan below 59th.

And even then, you still have downtown Brooklyn, downtown Flushing, etc.So you could split NY into about four or five downtowns, just to make it interesting...
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