PigPOg wrote:

Found this site very interesting. I'm a Londoner yet know nothing of
NYC. I've never been able to find (or have someone explain) the
Uptown/Downtown concept. I mean, where exactly is Uptown New York?

In general, downtown refers to the central business district. In NYC it
refers specifically to lower Manhattan (our /original/ central business
district, which has since grown quite a bit northward). The area called
downtown is alternatively referred to as lower Manhattan.

There is no location called uptown.

However, downtown and uptown are both very commonly used as directions
within Manhattan. They are essentially synonymous with south and north,
respectively. (So in about a half hour, I'll be getting on a downtown -
that is, southbound - train to go to work, since I live in Manhattan
north of where I work.) The same terminology can be extended to the
Bronx. In modern usage, it is never extended to the other boroughs,
although mosaic tiling (installed when the line was built in the 1920's)
in some of the 4th Avenue line subway stations in Brooklyn directs
passengers to the uptown (southbound!) and downtown (northbound!) platforms.
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David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA