They consider themselves inner city. It's not dense though. Minneapolis is more common in America than New York. It is inner-city by distance, age, and class history. Probably reputation and stereotype have something to do with it.
Income is different.
Seward residents walk and bike and see themselves as different from everyone else. Everyone thinks they're special. Maybe we don't generate image from the physical environment, but from other issues. Your paper started with a quote about communications, but you didn't address it. Cars link the neighborhoods but there is no communication.