• 1st November
    2012
  • 01

Manhattan’s Impending Uptown-Downtown Civil War: Who Will Win?

Cue the Gangs of New York soundtrack! Fellow Downtowners, WE MUST UNITE! (I’m a displaced Chelsea-er. Which side did you think I’d be in?? Candle me up!) 

gawkercom:

Manhattan is a city divided by power: uptown thrives and strengthens on electricity and wifi and artisanal cheese, while downtown grows meaner and leaner with each passing day in the dark. There are 1.6 million coexisting on 23 square miles with a clear, dangerous divide between them, and power likely won’t return until the weekend. The center cannot hold. Chaos is imminent. And so we ask: Who will win the inevitable Uptown-Down Civil War of 2012? 

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    but what about midtown ._.
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