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Originally Posted by eschaton

It's also worth noting, when discussing small cities, there's a few blocks of Albany, NY where you would think you were in Brooklyn. It's really only an area about three blocks deep and seven blocks long, but its still quite nice. Plenty of other remaining rowhouse neighborhoods in the city too...some of them upscale and white, some of them working class and black.

Albany could have been such an incredibly cool little city if Empire State Plaza hadn't ripped out the heart of it.

Albany has great urban fabric. I almost got an apartment around the corner from there. Nearby Troy has some nice areas too.