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Downtown is a term primarily used in North America to refer to a city's core or central Business district, usually in a geographical, commercial, and community sense. The term is thought to have been coined in New York City, where it was in use by the 1830s to refer to the original town at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan. As the town of New York grew into a city, the only direction it could grow on the island was toward the north, proceeding upriver from the original settlement . Thus, anything north of the original town became known as "uptown" , while the original town became known as "downtown" . During the late 19th century, the term was gradually adopted by cities across the United States and Canada to refer to the historical core of the city . Notably, it was not included in dictionaries as late as the 1880s. But by the early 1900s, Downtown was clearly established as the proper term in American English for a city's Central business district.
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