>>86657947Only New York. Few towns are this fractured and shaped by different influences over time.
You had different groups of immigrants from different waves settle in different parts, dividing along racial, religious, national and class lines.
These parts developing at different paces over time influenced when which people moved where. This is an ongoing process and various parts of town have meant different things over time.
But yeah, New York has a really peculiarly strong sense of identity you see in few places.
Mostly the metropolitans just think of their city quietly as the only civilised place in the country. Think London or Paris.
Or you have cities getting overrun with development and people moving in from the countriside, effectively pitting city natives against everyone else who wants to get into the capital, like is the case with Berlin that tries to cut down on a housing crisis induced by tourism and gentrification.
But that is usually not so much about which block precisely you come from.
