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Originally Posted by Crawford
As your pictures show, the Bronx is generally significantly denser than Brooklyn, even if the overall density is roughly the same (because Bronx has far more parkland, highways, industrial and other nonresidential uses).
And it isn't really the South Bronx that has that 5-7 floor tenement typology. It's more like the entire West Bronx (whether South or North). If anything, the North Bronx is probably a little denser than the South Bronx (though that may be changing because there's more newer infill in the South Bronx).
The big built form distinction in the Bronx isn't between North and South; it's between East and West. Basically the Eastern third of the Bronx has a less dense built form and the Western two-thirds have the typology shown in the pics.
The rough border between "dense Bronx" and "not so dense Bronx" is the Amtrak NE Corridor line, though the density starts to slowly decrease east of the Bronx River.
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Yeah I am just starting to learn more New York City geography from looking at NYgirl's threads on SkyscraperCity. Actually density in the Bronx and Brooklyn is more interesting to me than Manhattan because highrise residential density is common in NYC and Chicago but the residential density in parts of the Bronx and Brooklyn just blows me away, especially how widespread and unrelenting it is. The only parts of New York City that remind me of the bungalow belts of Chicago where I live are eastern Queens and gasp!; parts of Staten Island. Actually the parts of Queens near JFK Airport and near the border with Nassau County remind me of the neighborhoods near Midway Airport in Chicago where I live, i.e. neighborhoods that are majority detached bungalows/houses that have multi-family residences here and there. Overall Queens is the closest to Chicago in terms of the way it looks, the denser western parts looking like the north lakefront areas of Chicago and the eastern parts looking more like the bungalow belt of Chicago. So I would say the recipe for Chicago would be to take Queens, throw in some lower and midtown Manhattan for the tall skyscrapers and add in a healthy dose of Detroit to get the Chicago ghettos. Also the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn looks a lot like Chicago's Bridgeport just a bit denser. The only place in Chicago that looks close to the south Bronx would be the densest parts of Woodlawn or parts of Rogers Park and of course the highrise housing projects look somewhat similar between NYC and Chicago but in general Chicago's ghettos are lower density and look more like Detroit than the Bronx.