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Originally Posted by eastcoastal
I think of downtown's northern border as the Cogswell interchange. Everything North of this piece of infrastructure feels VERY different than the downtown to me: block pattern, building massing, relationships between buildings and streets, types of building tenants.
With respect to the armoury - I'd probably consider it central. In my mind, the north end doesn't start until the north side of Cunard St. If you ask others, they'd say the north end's southern border is North St.
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This seems to be a perennial debate. My feeling is that the "North End," as commonly understood, has crept south over the years. The North End might have technically begun at North Street or thereabouts in the past, but the interchange created such a stark division between the urban fabric on its north and south sides, that it's no wonder a lot of people, especially younger people with no pre-Cogswell memory, simply refer to everything above Cogswell as the "North End". There may have been a time when Gottingen Street flowed organically out of downtown, transitioning to a lower scale, but that transition zone was destroyed. It feels like a fundamentally different neighbourhood now, and certainly among people I know (under-40) it's colloquially referred to as the North End.
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