Uptown
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The name Uptown has multiple meanings:
Neighborhoods or regions in several cities:
- United States
- Uptown, Centreville, Mississippi
- Uptown, Chicago, Illinois
- Charlotte center city ("Uptown Charlotte"), North Carolina
- Uptown Dallas, Texas
- Uptown (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania
- Uptown, Hartford, Connecticut
- Uptown Houston, Texas
- Uptown, Manhattan, New York: Anything south of where the speaker is currently standing, in most places, is said to be downtown. Anything north of the speaker is uptown. The term uptown is used to refer to the cardinal direction north.
- Uptown, Memphis, Tennessee
- Uptown, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana
- Uptown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (see Bluff (Pittsburgh))
- Uptown, Seattle, officially known as Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington
- Canada
- Uptown Toronto, Ontario
- Uptown, Montreal, Quebec (see Côte-des-Neiges)
[edit] Other uses
- "Uptown," a song recorded by Roy Orbison in 1959
- Uptown (song), on Prince's 1980 album Dirty Mind, inspired by the Minneapolis neighborhood of the same name
- Uptown (newspaper), an alternative weekly in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Uptown Records, a former record label
- Uptown (group), a Korean hip hop and R&B group