Old Town is the tourist part. It's where Duval Street is, and most of the bars and restaurants, the guest houses, the condominium resorts, Bahama Village, and the cruise ship piers.
New Town is the commercial part and where the majority of full-time residents live. Here is where we shop at supermarkets (3) and department stores (1?), get our cars fixed, got to the movies, and the like. There are some tourist businesses in New Town, primarily hotels and chain restaurants.
There's a small piece of Key West across the Cow Key Channel bridge, over on Stock Island. It's where the hospital, the Monroe County jail, and Florida Keys Community College are. It's also where Mount Trashmore is, the old incinerator and current transfer station for our refuse.
There has been renewed talk over the last year of annexation of Stock Island to Key West although, as far as I know, no official moves are underway to make that happen. It's certain to become a knock-down, drag-out if and when a move is made.
All Old Town and all New Town are further divided in several parts, the neighborhoods. Over time, I want to try to describe those neighborhoods, as Caesar described the Belgae, the Aquitani, and the Celts or Gauls.
Stand by.
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