Downtown (equivalent to a "central business district" in British English) is a term used in North America when referring to a city's core, usually in a geographical, commercial, and community sense.EtymologyThe term is thought to have been coined in New York City, where "downtown" was in use by the 1830s to refer to the original town at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan.Robert M. Fogelson, Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 10. As