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Did you know: Charlotte is the only major city in the U.S. where its central district is referred to as “uptown.” Here’s why.
The Oxford English Dictionary's first citation for "down town" or "downtown" dates to 1770, in reference to the center of Boston. [6] Some have posited that the term "downtown" was coined in New York City, where it was in use by the 1830s to refer to the original settlement, or town, at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan. [7]
A map of Upper Manhattan, with Harlem in red. Upper Manhattan is the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.Its southern boundary has been variously defined, but some of the most common usages are 96th Street, 110th Street (the northern boundary of Central Park), 125th Street, or 155th Street.
Uptown and downtown are not always meaningful on lines in the other boroughs or on the crosstown IRT Flushing and BMT Canarsie Lines or the downtown-only BMT Nassau Street Line, so these are usually described as terminus-bound (with terminus being the name of the terminal station) for "downtown" and Brooklyn-bound or Queens-bound for "uptown."
According to any Style guide worth its salt, L'année dernière à Marienbad and À la recherche du temps perdu in English are Last Year at Marienbad and (Yes, I know there are better title translations) In Search of Lost Time. <mild pedantic rant> If you write the title in English, use English capitalisation rules; if you write the title in ...
Uptown Residence "Uptown" has traditionally been a name given to the area north of Downtown Toronto. As the portion of the city that could be considered to be downtown or midtown has grown, the region has pushed further north along Yonge Street. The first area known as Uptown was centered on Bloor Street around the University of Toronto. In the ...
Uptown Charlotte is the largest business district in Charlotte and the Carolinas. [2] Several Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters in the district, including Bank of America, Duke Energy, Honeywell, and the east coast operations of Wells Fargo. [3] [4] Uptown contains over 33 million square feet of office space. [1]
Uptown, entertainment district east of Downtown and Midtown Albuquerque, New Mexico Uptown, area surrounding the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati , Ohio Uptown, a neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio