Brooklyn's Nod from the Daily Mail
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….
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]
Image by Colin Brice
doesn’t this mean we jumped the shark?
have to do the BX now
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.
The list of ‘celebrities’ mentioned was pretty unimpressive.
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.
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.
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.
The only major gaffe is that Brooklyn got compared to Tooting…which is an INSANE comparison.
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.
Actually, it’s the Williamsburgh Savings Bank; unlike the neighborhood, the bank kept its h.