"midtown"

[Steve K.]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 jester at PANIX.COM wrote:

> I was looking over various dictionary entries for "midtown,"
> and I have to confess I'm not sure what it really means. I'm
> too New York-centric to get the Manhattan arrangement out of
> my mind--can we have a discussion of what "midtown" means
> in other cites, or in smaller things (if it is used there)?

I've always associated Midtown with Manhattan, and I never even had been
there before 1990.

I also know in Manhattan, uptown, especially as an adverb, (heading
uptown), generally means going northerly of where you are, whereas in
Chicago, Uptown is a specific lakefront neighborhood around Lawrence
Avenue (4800 N), so, say, if you're on Devon Avenue (6400 N) to go to
uptown you have to go south.

My bank in Chicago was Midtown Bank, interestingly.


I've never heard midtown used directionally in Boston. (Or uptown for that
matter.)


--- Steve K.