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
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?
How long until euro tourists start mistaking the brooklyner for the williamsburg savings bank?
“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
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.
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.
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!!!
That could be another reason prices are holding up in Brooklyn.
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.
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.