Brooklyn vs. Manhattan
This week, Time Out NY stokes the culture wars by digging into the Brooklyn vs. Manhattan wars. First, two editors debate the issue, followed by a series of multiple choice quizzes that test how “Brooklyn” or “Manhattan” you are and how easily you can recognize your fellow borough dwellers. Here’s one excerpt from the debate…
This week, Time Out NY stokes the culture wars by digging into the Brooklyn vs. Manhattan wars. First, two editors debate the issue, followed by a series of multiple choice quizzes that test how “Brooklyn” or “Manhattan” you are and how easily you can recognize your fellow borough dwellers. Here’s one excerpt from the debate and you can find links to the quizzes below:
By choosing Brooklyn, we give ourselves the chance to dig into New York, to connect with what’s going on around us. We can hang out in any of myriad parks with friends—or have them over for dinner inside our actual apartments. We can know our neighbors, both in our buildings and on our blocks so that if we need to, we can make a big stink to clean up, protect or change something about our home. In Manhattan, businesses (and tenants) rotate in and out so fast that it’s unlikely you’d even notice when another one was planning to usurp a mom-and-pop store, or that you’d know enough people to fight it.
Let the stereotyping begin!
Brooklyn vs. Manhattan: The Debate [Time Out NY]
Brooklyn vs. Manhattan: The Quiz [Time Out NY]
Brooklyn vs. Manhattan: Stereotype Test [Time Out NY]
What would happen if all of Time Out Chicago’s Manhattan advertisers pulled out of the magazine? After all, doesn’t this piece point out to Manhattan businesses that their dollars advertising in this rag don’t really mean jack? I wonder how hip Brooklyn would be to Time Out Chicago if all those Manhattan businesses took this lame article to heart? What a cheap ploy by TONY to try and reach an audience they so desperately wish they had. Is this magazine even relevant any more? Does anyone in Brooklyn care? Does anyone in Manhattan care? Maybe if you’re over 45?
Body in Manhattan, head in Brooklyn. Doesn’t look good. Maybe my soul is Staten Island.
I just realized something. Older people are cooler than younger people, at least younger people from Manhattan and some parts of Brooklyn.
I think the quiz might be less than scientific. It claims I like Brooklyn but might not have moved there yet.
I miss the Bronx 🙁
> All of the occupants of both Manhattan and Brooklyn are under 30
It’s like Logan’s Run: “Last day. Pisces 25s. Year of the city – 2010. Carousel begins…”
MM and SF – yes!
Pigeon – YES!
(The article is so lame I can’t work up the energy to contribute to a “Next week in Time out contest”)
Whenever a magazine uses the word “myriad,” you know you’re in trouble.
Silly article–TONY is second only to NY Mag for irrelevance–but FWIW it couldn’t have been written back when I moved to Brooklyn in 1970. At that time brownstone Brooklyn was just starting to be seen as a reasonable urban alternative to Manhattan, but it still took second place, unlike now.