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Old Posted Jul 10, 2018, 1:15 PM
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"Prewar" apartment neighborhoods in U.S. outside NYC...

As a spinoff of another thread, I wondered what neighborhoods people can think of outside of NYC where apartment houses (as opposed to single family homes or rowhouses) dominate the urban fabric.

Note, I am not asking about number of units - in virtually every mixed-use neighborhood a couple of big apartment buildings can result in the majority of units being multifamily. I'm talking about when you walk down the street, you see nothing but apartment buildings for blocks and blocks.

For the sake of brevity, let's exclude neighborhoods dominated by very small multifamily, like Boston triple-deckers and Chicago six-flats. Only buildings which are (or appear to be) seven units or more.

One example I can think of is Fenway-Kenmore in Boston. Much of the southern portion of the neighborhood is institutional, taken up by hospitals and universities. But the residential streets are dominated by walkups which take up the entire block face.

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