"36 Hours in Gritty Manchester"...
 

title of article in today's NYTimes Travel Section. "Grittty"? I was there about 7 years ago and I would not have called it gritty then. But anyway a city that rarely gets coverage: ("Gritty" was in the article headline in paper but not in this copy.)

I was pleasantly surprised by Manchester and its many offerings (apart from Coronation Street associations which spurred me to go).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ype=collection

It was gritty not so very any years ago, and bits of it and Greater Manchester still are.
I'll have to wait until my NYT quota resets to read the article.
DH is from one of the grittier bits of Oldham.

Gritty? That sounds sounds like a headline designed to attract readers written by someone who has never visited the place. Manchester is anything but gritty (whatever that means), unless you include the odd area that no visitor would ever see and every city has at least one of those.

Even Oldham has vastly improved over the years hets! The city has some of the best choice of food anywhere, fine hotels and world class sight seeing. See Pal, I bit!

I just reread the article and can't find anything "Gritty" in it?

Gritty is just lazy journos.... Even East Manchester (note capitals) is getting only slightly un-pleasant.

A friend of mine comes from Oldham, but he always says he's from Manchester.

Again 'gritty' was not in the article linked to above but someone decided to add it to the headline in the paper version.