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Well, New York is a special case in that its climate is within a certain "sweet spot" (warm but not hot in the summer, not too far below freezing in the winter)
by exelius 11y ago
Well, New York is a special case in that its climate is within a certain "sweet spot" (warm but not hot in the summer, not too far below freezing in the winter) and the fact that its emergence as a major financial center is a historical relic of the fact that it has been the "gateway to America" for over 150 years.
Buffalo and Pittsburgh are experiencing a resurgence only because when you fall as far as those cities have, there has to be a bottom somewhere. But residents of places like that are looking at a lot of problems in the future: they have less than half the population they did 50 years ago, so there is a lot of urban blight (and the other problems that come along with it) to clean up and a very small tax base to pay for it. So while they may see a resurgence, they're still not out of the woods yet.
- ghaff 11y agoDetroit may be an even more pronounced example. Apparently the core down by the river is actually gentrifying. But large portions of the city are seriously blighted. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/05/detroit-city-collapsing-gentrifying http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/05/detroit-city-c...
- exelius 11y agoThat's exactly what happened to Pittsburgh as well. There are some areas near downtown and the university areas that are finally getting better, but not less than 2 miles from those areas are entire neighborhoods and small towns that have been abandoned for decades. Pittsburgh's decline predates the fall of Detroit by a decade or two (most of the steel mills shut down in the early 70s) but the parallels are striking.