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September 22, 2009

Brooklyn's Nod from the Daily Mail

wsbank_210909.jpgThe 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]
Image by Colin Brice




Posted by jscheff at 11:13 AM | Comments (19)
Categories: Brooklyn, Celebrity, Culture

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quote:
"quotes Sarah Jessica Parker on how Manhattan has changed for the worse,"

you cant even make UP that kind of irony.

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at September 22, 2009 11:17 AM

I love how people say Brooklyn, like it's a neighborhood. Judging by the maps that tourists are given by consierges: it's almost always a map of Dwntown Brooklyn (they usually don't even include Williamsburg.) that just says "Brooklyn", no explanation, no nuttin'. No wonder they think all of Brooklyn is a couple of small neighborhoods near the bridge.

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at September 22, 2009 11:21 AM

I think it's pretty clear that if you follow in Heath Ledger's shoes and move from Manhattan to Brooklyn and then back to Manhattan, you will soon die a tragic death.

Posted by: mopar at September 22, 2009 11:21 AM

That could be another reason prices are holding up in Brooklyn.

Posted by: mopar at September 22, 2009 11:21 AM

I agree Mopar. Marty Markowitz if you're listening here's our a Brooklyn slogan to put on the Highway Billboards. BROOKLYN: LEAVE AND DIE!!!

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at September 22, 2009 11:24 AM


Just curious....how exactly is it "embarrassingly ill-informed?" The writer certainly doesn't sound like a Brooklyn expert, but I noticed no outstanding gaffes.

Posted by: East New York at September 22, 2009 11:27 AM

yeah, I'm with East New York on this. Since when is that building not the Williamsburg Savings Bank? Because a developer bought it? You gotta be kidding me. It's a New York Landmark and I don't care how many developers swap hands and rename it some new and stupid name, anyone who isn't familiar with the shillers of NY real estate should be able to identify the building by its Proper Historical Identification.

Sorry Brownstoner, but as much as you need to push the junk on the market out there, please don't pretend that "One HAnson Place" is something a UK resident should EVER have to know about. That actually goes for anyone, including brooklyners.

Posted by: iz at September 22, 2009 11:33 AM

"The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, or One Hanson Place, is the tallest completed building in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City and a familiar Brooklyn landmark." - Wikipedia

Posted by: iz at September 22, 2009 11:34 AM

How long until euro tourists start mistaking the brooklyner for the williamsburg savings bank?

Posted by: dirty_hipster at September 22, 2009 11:38 AM

Jesus, which little priss wrote the original post here? "Sigh."? What's wrong with the article? It's a tourist piece, for people who are going to spend a day or two looking at the sights. Are you also going to start calling the Sears Tower whatever the hell they want to call it now?

Posted by: chuck at September 22, 2009 11:43 AM

Actually, it's the Williamsburgh Savings Bank; unlike the neighborhood, the bank kept its h.

Posted by: babs at September 22, 2009 12:02 PM

babs, yeah yeah, I realized that after I pulled that quote from Wiki. The issue though is the embarrasingly ill-informed OP who should get a serious smack-down for his/her gaffe -- including the dropping of the h in THEIR snarky rebuttle.

Posted by: iz at September 22, 2009 12:04 PM

The only major gaffe is that Brooklyn got compared to Tooting...which is an INSANE comparison.

Posted by: HoneysuckleWeeks at September 22, 2009 12:34 PM

Ill informed- Manhattanites go through Queens to get to the airport- Not Brooklyn for starters.

Also, the Daily Mail in England is a couple steps down from New York Newsday.

Posted by: bobbyj at September 22, 2009 12:55 PM

This article has no substance. If the number of celebrities moving to a borough is the measure of "where it's at" then Manhattan wins hands down. This writer entirely missed what makes Brooklyn great. It's obvious he didn't step foot here to write the article. But let's put this in perspective. The Daily Mail is the tabloid of all tabloids, think NY Post times 100 (consequently also owned by Murdoch.) Londoners don't read the Daily Mail. The audience is really more people outside of the big cities and ultra conservative.

Posted by: grilledsardine at September 22, 2009 2:00 PM

The Daily Mail is still struggling for content 12 years after Diana died.

I agree HoneySuckleWeeks, the Tooting comparison is a joke. For our Colonial friends, Tooting is small neighbourhood in London, only of note by its inclusion on the Northern Line subway. Theses days it is overwhelmingly an Indian/Bangledeshi community.

Posted by: realitycheque at September 22, 2009 2:00 PM

The list of 'celebrities' mentioned was pretty unimpressive.

Posted by: Leucas at September 22, 2009 2:33 PM

Ya, and one is even make believe. And they even got the make believe one's neighborhood wrong - everybody knows Miranda and Steve live in Clinton Hill, not Carroll Gardens : P Either that, or everyone was bitching about parking in the wrong place last week.

Posted by: Stonergut at September 22, 2009 2:36 PM

doesn't this mean we jumped the shark?
have to do the BX now

Posted by: chrishavens at September 22, 2009 3:58 PM

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