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“Downtown”, “Uptown” and “Midtown” are common words in the US to describe the geographical areas of the cities. Usually, “Downtown” is the business district, “Uptown” is the richer area”, and “Midtown” is the area in between.
22 Ιουλ 2017 · While Uptown, Midtown, and Downtown are geographic regions of Manhattan, the words uptown and downtown can also mean your direction of travel. If you head north or towards the Bronx or Queens, you can say you are headed "uptown"; if you head south or towards Brooklyn, you can say you are headed "downtown."
25 Ιουλ 2024 · What are the differences between uptown and downtown? Their differences have very little to do with geographical location; rather, they differ most in terms of land use and quality of life. Uptown areas usually refer to residential districts, specifically those occupied by single-family housing.
Downtown is the center or if there are multiple centers like New York or LA it means the financial district. Uptown is more ambiguous, usually it means a place near downtown that either is residential apartments or entertainment (shopping and restaurants).
1 Οκτ 2008 · As GWB stated, in NYC, downtown vs. uptown can mean, to natives of the area, location within the city, that is, north (uptown) or south (downtown) of midtown (the center of the city). In addition, "downtown" can also mean "the rough side of town", meaning working class, not-so-classy, not-so-educated or the other side of the tracks, whereas ...
In my world, "downtown" has always been the term used to refer to the central, more commercial area of town. In all fairness, the thesaurus entry does come closer to matching that use of the word. But where the hell is "uptown"? Any part of town that isn't "downtown"? "Up" as in north on a map?
7 Σεπ 2018 · For Downtown, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was the poster child of starving artists, street art cultures, living and being inspired by the city’s disrepair in SoHo and beyond. As for Uptown, it was the Park Avenue social set conquering power lunches, and Madison Avenue ad execs to Wall Street tycoons scooping up high rises off the East River.
