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Downtown

In many US and Canadian cities, the central business district, often so called because it was sited on lower ground (for example, along a river) than surrounding residential neighbourhoods (see Uptown).

Famous examples of historic downtown areas are those in New Orleans, which was settled in the 18th century by the French and Spanish, and in Manhattan, New York City, which is home to Wall Street and whose haphazard street layout predates the strict grid pattern seen in the rest of Manhattan.



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A new poll shows that 77% of present-day downtowners rated their quality of life as "excellent" or "good" compared with 65% of residents who gave their Lower Manhattan neighborhood the nod of approval back in May 2003.
``Those men in dark suits there want to be the new downtowners,'' he said.
The success of the Medici, an upper-end apartment housing project just east of downtown, and the announcement of several housing rehabilitation or mixed-use projects, has downtowners talking about a central business district that stays open past 6 p.
 
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