uptown

adverb

1. to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.

adjective

2. moving toward, situated in, or pertaining to the upper part of a town: Take the uptown bus.
3. of, for, or characteristic of affluent people; elegant, stylish, or luxurious: uptown fashions; uptown tastes.

noun

4. the uptown section of a town or city: Uptown is less crowded.

adjective, adverb

1. towards, in, or relating to some part of a town that is away from the centre

noun

2. such a part of a town, esp a residential part

n.

1802, “the higher or upper portion of a town,” from up + town. As this usually was the residential portion of a town (especially a port) the word had overtones of that. Specific meaning “more prosperous area of town” is recorded from 1946.