[PHOTO] Tenements of Manhattan, New York City

[rfmcdonald]

Even Toronto's low-rise buildngs are short compared to New York City's: the famous tenements with their characteristic fire escapes scattered across Manhattan, from the Lower East Side to Harlem, are easily at least double the height of the buildings one would find in Toronto's comparable lower-density neighbourhoods. (Of course Manhattan is the dense core of a city at the core of a metropolitan area substantially larger and denser than the Greater Toronto Area.)