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Where rent goes up and the subway noise goes down.
means The residential, often more affluent or outlying part of a city or town, away from the downtown business core — or heading in that direction.
from A straightforward compound of 'up' and 'town,' first used in American English to mark the northern, higher-numbered, or farther-out part of a city — think Manhattan, where the street grid climbs north. 'Up' here echoes its old sense of 'away from the center' or 'further along,' not necessarily elevation, though in many cities uptown did sit on higher ground than the harbor-hugging downtown core.
- direction in nyc
- usually means north on manhattan grid
- word origin
- coined in nyc to mean upper manhattan
- funk anthem
- bruno mars made it synonymous with funk
- class signal
- often shorthand for wealthier or residential area