Brooklyn-Manhattan Street Brawl Inevitable
“Is this the start of a backlash or does Manhattan have a chip on its shoulder?” writes the reader who snapped a photo of this provocative t-shirt on display in a window in the West Village. “Brooklyn, keep your cool to yourself” the shirt reads. Dem’s fightin’ words. Okay, Manhattan, “In the alley, after school,…
“Is this the start of a backlash or does Manhattan have a chip on its shoulder?” writes the reader who snapped a photo of this provocative t-shirt on display in a window in the West Village. “Brooklyn, keep your cool to yourself” the shirt reads. Dem’s fightin’ words. Okay, Manhattan, “In the alley, after school, be there!” On a separate note, things are going to start to slow down around here the next couple of days and we’ll be on a one-post-a-day regimen next week. The first week of January will be devoted to some guest neighborhood photoblogging with normal service resuming the second week of January. We won’t be able to post Forum questions until the second week of January either, so please don’t flood the mail box over the holidays. Tune in tomorrow for the vacation discussion topic as well.
It sounds more like they hate that the tourch has been passed to Brooklyn. We have the edge they lost long ago
NYC is all 5 boroughs.
NYC will never lose its edge. It always has been and always will be ground zero for hipness. Undisputable fact.
I’m a Brooklyn gal, so of course I’m offended! What’s more, this attitude about certain neighborhoods being ‘cooler’ than others is completely juvenile. Whoever would sell or wear such a shirt is in denial that they are probably a 30-40 year old still wearing Vans on the weekend, but who is somewhat well-heeled, works for an internet company or somesuch, and makes upwards of $80,000 a year. People, it’s time to grow up. This entire topic of ‘my nabe is cooler than yours’ reminds me of the aggressive, grasping attitude that made me HAPPY to leave Park Slope after having lived there for 10 years. NYC is losing its edge because of 40 year old yuppies that don’t want to grow up but feel entitled to very grown up salaries and want to have little battles over who’s the coolest. Churns the stomache.
Ha! We’re officially contenders!