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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes CCDC is the suburbs.

So is Brooklyn [/quote]

And Queens! [/quote]

Queens feels like the suburbs. Most of Brooklyn does not until you get to Sheepshead Bay. [/quote]

Brooklyn is literally called the 1st suburb in the US.

It’s not about feel it’s about it being the suburb.[/quote]

Brooklyn and Queens offer very mixed housing options.  NWDC is definitely a lot more residential than either of them overall.  There are areas of Brooklyn that are similar in density to NWDC, but they are still better covered by subway access, closer and more frequent subway stops, more commercial strips in closer walking distance than NWDC, not as car oriented, as commercial establishments don't offer parking for the most part.  There are clearly suburban parts of Queens that are far from subway, but overall Brooklyn and Queens have large swaths of rowhouse/apartment building density that is closer in nature to DC core areas and not residential NWDC.  DC itself is about as dense as Brooklyn and Queens, it's a mid rise and rowhouse density.  NWDC has a more urban feel only around its main streets near metro stations, but metro stations are very far apart IMHO to make the entirety of this area feel urban.  It's more like a denser suburb, then a city.[/quote]

CCDC and Brooklyn are both suburbs.[/quote]

What?  Brooklyn is huge, it could be a city of its own and has an infrastructure of a city, CCDC is a neighborhood. It seems like you either had never been to Brooklyn or your idea of it is based upon the stupid Sex and the city show where Miranda "escapes" to the burbs of Brooklyn for that back yard. Brooklyn is immense and much much more dense, it has multiple subway lines, Prospect Park, museums and theaters, office buildings and ferry stations and a well developed waterfront, highrise density and mostly rowhomes with some SFH areas as well. It has MANY neighborhoods.   And technically Brooklyn IS NYC, it's an outer borough, not a suburb.  NYC has suburbs further out, in Long Island, Westchester and NJ.  NYC has 5 boroughs, the most suburban of them is Staten Island.  The comparison between Brooklyn with its tons of diverse neighborhoods to one residential area of DC is laughable.  [/quote]

I does not matter what you "think should be a suburb". You have created some ridiculous criteria for "suburb" IN YOUR HEAD..... Brooklyn is the 1st suburb and it still is a suburb.

Brooklyn is a suburb get over it.

It's a borough, not a city.

So whether you live in CCDC or Brooklyn you are a suburbanite, even if it hurts your little feelings and destroys what you thought was your "city girl" identity.[/quote]

Brooklyn was a city in its own right before unifying with Manhattan to become one of the boroughs. So its history is not one as a suburb.

Otherwise I do agree upper NW is not urban. Places like upper NW exist in other cities but are firmly in the suburbs. Like Brookline, which was a suburban town of Boston. If the city borders of DC were smaller, upper NW would be in Montgomery County and thus in the suburbs. As it is, upper NW is within the city of Washington, but it is not an urban area. [/quote]

No Brooklyn, specifically Brooklyn Heights,  is NY's 1st suburb. You can't change history because you think Brooklyn is hip and cool and feels like a city to you. It's not a city, its a suburb.

Also, if you are native to DC, when you moved to the burbs you moved to NW DC. [/quote]

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