midtown again

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:18 AM -0400 9/14/00, David Bergdahl wrote:
>Reading abt "Midtown Plaza" made me remember that my first teaching job
>was at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY, which was located in
>the upper floors of the former L. C. Smith typewriter factory,
>rechristened "Midtown Plaza."  The factory was located on a major
>east-west street (formerly a canal) across from the NY Central
>RR-station (long since moved to East Syracuse, NY).  Midtown it wasn't
>since the downtown was configured up and down Salina St, the major
>north-south street. So the conjecture that "midtown" may be a
>real-estate term for a newly developed commericial area, an area being
>converted from one use to another, might be worth investigating.
>
Just Syracuse betraying its arrant Rochester envy again.

larry