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]
barf
Time Out New York is basically Cosmo or Seventeen, but with more cupcake shops.
the whole think just screams borough inferiority complex.
and hahahah heather
*rob*
It kinda makes me want to buy that house in Staten Island…
It kinda makes me want to buy that house in Staten Island…
that paragraph is a little on the ridiculous side side.. no?
quote:
By choosing Brooklyn, we give ourselves the chance to dig into New York, to connect with what’s going on around us.
— uh, you cant do that in manhattan?
We can hang out in any of myriad parks with friends—or have them over for dinner inside our actual apartments.
— tons of parks in manhattan and i think apartments in manhattan even have ovens! gasp
We can know our neighbors, both in our buildings and on our blocks
— i knew tons of neighbors in buildings and blocks in manhattan. how is it any different than brooklyn?
so that if we need to, we can make a big stink to clean up, protect or change something about our home.
— translation, whine about it on the internet, but not actually confront anyone in person
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.
— false.
*rob*
TimeOutNY always writes about meaningless shit.
This is really lame. You would think that a literary giant like TimeOutNY would have more intellectual things to write about.
That excerpt is kinda true though
however it’s sorta facebook and all asking “How Brooklyn are you?”