So why didn't it?kingbaldrick said:real estate brokers thought that the Bronx would become the heart of the Midtown commercial district.
So why didn't it?kingbaldrick said:real estate brokers thought that the Bronx would become the heart of the Midtown commercial district.
So why didn't it?
That said, had the CPR gone on the northern route & ended in Prince George (unlikely?), Vancouver could be quite a bit smaller than it is. (Saskatoon & Calgary would probably be larger.)
TY.Kevin R. said:That... is actually a good question.
The more I learn about him, the more I think somebody should have pushed him under a subway train.Kevin R. said:If Robert Moses hadn't gutted the South Bronx with the Cross-Bronx Expressway... maybe the Hub could've been the Bronx's Times Square?
As for the other three outer boroughs, I don't see them ever becoming anything more than suburbs of Manhattan. Staten Island and Brooklyn are too exposed to storms, and Brooklyn and especially Queens are too far from the Hudson River to take advantage of Erie Canal traffic (the Erie Canal was a matter of when, not if, in any TL where the state of New York has a clear route to Lake Erie). Newark, New Jersey, OTOH, is a distinct possibility. It also has access to the Hudson, yet is substantially more sheltered than Manhattan is. If the 1938 New England Hurricane had veered just sixty miles west and hit New York, it could've done to that city what the 1900 hurricane did to Galveston, driving population and business inland into Newark and the Bronx.
It might even have more than one bookstore today too!Ft Smith, Arkansas. The Arkansas territory originally included much of OK, and Ft Smith was the major settlement and trade center for the region. Keep the territory united with a capital at Ft Smith, and we might be talking today about a much larger and nationally significant city on the order of Kansas City or St Louis opposed to the modest sized city that is there today.
If you somehow manage to alleviate or stop white flight, Baltimore, and most of the Rust Belt for that matter, is significantly better off. I could easily see a population exceeding 1 million, if you can stop white flight. The stadium idea from upthread is a good one too, I never knew that.