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Originally Posted by mrnyc
interesting to see. not sure if i ever made it to this neighborhood. its like a cross between philly and cleveland with boston thrown in.
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Montreal to me is closest to Philly in terms of built form. It is densely built rowhouse type housing on much of its territory. Boston has some affiliation but the grid is entirely different and the triplexes are of another order.
I know this neighborhood well for having lived there and my folks used to own buildings there. One thing I find interesting is that for a long time now, developers have scooped up the industrial properties in these hoods and turned them into great condos. I have visited a lot of them and the quality is very high. So the streets retain a lot of the multiplicity of form they had in the 1920's say at the apogee of industry in this part of town. It was a very heterogenous industrial base, where anything from candy and baked goods to submarines and locomotives, aircraft and the like were thrown together.