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Originally Posted by Investing In Chicago
It's seems pretty disingenuous to compare density of Manhattan to anywhere in Chicago. Manhattan is essentially an island of 3M people crammed into like 25 sq miles. On daily basis, only 1 in 3 people on the island are residence, I can't imagine anywhere in Chicago (especially the south loop) with density numbers like that.
Even Williamsburg and East Lakeview doesn't pass the sniff test for me. I haven't been to Williamsburg since covid, but I can't think of anything in East Lakeview like the area around Bedford Ave Subway.
I actually find the Southport Corridor to be more vibrant than Broadway in East Lakeview, despite the obviously scaled back built environment.
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I'm not sure why the word "pocket" would evoke such a large response apart from implying something that was completely not said.
We are talking about residential density too, not vibrancy. They're related but separate things. It's a simple formula - numbers of residents divided by the land area in square miles.
Now with that that being said, that POCKET (small) of South Loop I detailed with over 130K ppsm is completely a Manhattan density level. 3 years ago where we lived in Upper West Side had a nearly identical density. But again, it's a pocket, it's small. I never said there's big areas like this. That much is obvious if you know the boundaries.
Regarding Williamsburg. Sure you haven't been there in awhile. I have. We lived 2.5 miles from there for the 3 previous years up until the end of September. I didn't just pull numbers out of my ass. Officially via the 2020 US Census, that part of Williamsburg by Census Tract ranges from 50k ppsm to 90K ppsm which is exactly in line with the official 2020 Census densities for the section of LVE that I half painstakingly calculated with 58 Census Blocks to get its actual true density.
Now whether an area has more visitors hanging out there and how the built environment is/makes one feel is another story, which is what you are talking about and you alone because that's not wholly the same thing as the simple calculation of people(residents) per square mile. But via the 2020 US Census no they're actually pretty similar in terms of residential density between Williamsburg and LVE east of Broadway.