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Manhattan is not the world. Also downtown/midtown were the center of New York before skyscrapers.
by csomar 4y ago
Manhattan is not the world. Also downtown/midtown were the center of New York before skyscrapers.
- adastra22 4y agoI know. I’m not from NYC anyway. But it was the grandparent that started talking about the five Burroughs. I think your causality is backwards. Why has downtown and midtown always been the two main population centers, and not one continuous city? Because that’s where the exposed bedrock is, with some swampy midlands in between in the West Village. Geology.