The UK’s Daily Mail ran a story this weekend pointing to Brooklyn as New York City’s hot spot—a well-intended, albeit embarrassingly ill-informed, accolade from across the Atlantic. Ed Costa quotes Sarah Jessica Parker on how Manhattan has changed for the worse, and continues to list the celebrities who have filmed in or moved to Brooklyn. Besides his red-carpet fawning, Mr. Costa makes a couple references to the Williamsburg Savings Bank. Sigh. One Hanson Place is iconographic, sure, but it seems like Mr. Costa’s approach to understanding Brooklyn was to look at a Google satellite image and read Us Weekly.
Brooklyn Is New York’s Real Gem [Daily Mail]
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