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Originally Posted by dave8721
The reason the streets aren't packed with pedestrians is the reason it is so densely populated. Few office towers. Office workers lead to packed streets you see in most cities. NYC's areas with its most crowded sidewalks are not its most densely populated areas either. The packed sidewalks are in Midtown, where are the office towers are, not the Upper East Side where the most dense tracts are.
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This isn't really true. Brickell doesn't have high pedestrian density bc it's mostly very autocentric and pedestrian hostile, and the buildings tend to have fortress-like design. Density, by itself, does nothing for pedestrian counts.
And yeah, the UES doesn't have Midtown crowds, but the UES has bigger crowds than basically anywhere in the U.S. outside of NYC. Nowhere likely has Midtown crowds in the developed world.
Third Ave., Lexington Ave. and 86th Street are all packed. All the UES avenues, excepting Park, Fifth and East End Avenue (which are entirely residential) have heavily seven-day pedestrian traffic. Brickell, unlike the UES, is built around cars, and you enter buildings via parking podiums or large driveway dropoffs. The vast majority of UES highrises have no parking, and everything is oriented around pedestrians and transit.
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