Closing Bell: Country Living Hits Brooklyn
The map above is part of a Country Living feature called “Brooklyn’s Small-Town Charms.” Here’s part of the piece’s intro: “Today, Brooklyn still feels more heartland than Big Apple, with ribbon-worthy pie cafés hanging out shingles next to soda shops and general stores. To make navigating this supersized Mayberry manageable, we planned day trips around…
The map above is part of a Country Living feature called “Brooklyn’s Small-Town Charms.” Here’s part of the piece’s intro: “Today, Brooklyn still feels more heartland than Big Apple, with ribbon-worthy pie cafés hanging out shingles next to soda shops and general stores. To make navigating this supersized Mayberry manageable, we planned day trips around three of our favorite areas — Greenpoint and Williamsburg; Atlantic Avenue, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook; and Prospect Park and Park Slope (highlighted on map) — then homed in on the best spots to shop, eat, and explore.” Brooklyn as a “supersized Mayberry”? OK.
Brooklyn’s Small-Town Charms [Country Living]
I was wondering if Country Living was the home dec mag. Thanks, Montrose.
I will admit I did have a bit of twee overload after looking at all those photos. But not to worry, I live right by Broadway, an effective antidote.
Would you all STFU!
I’m trying to sleep over here and all I hear is this incessant plathering about Brooklyn, Pie Faces, MoonFaces,
Moonpies, Moonies, Moo Cows, Moose in heat, Mood rings, Mood enhancers, Moot points, Mumia Jamal, Moog synthesizers, Mookie Wilson, Mumbai, Musaka,
Restaurants serving overpriced food with overwrought attitude, Hello Kitty, Goodbye Yellowbrick Road.
GOODNIGHT!
I know it’s late, and no one really cares, but have any of you ever read Country Living? It’s a decorating magazine mostly, with articles about decorating your pad in a relaxed country/antique/Shabby Chic kind of way. Half the time the homes are in the Hamptons, upstate NY, the Berkshires or California. They’ve even had a NYC apartment or two. It really has very little to do with the Midwest, or any specific location. It’s about a lifestyle: more easy going, home cooking, small town, pumpkins on the porch at Halloween,homemade cookies out of the over, comfy couch and cocoa, cut down your own Christmas tree kind of magazine. That appeals to a very large segment of people, all across the country, including in cities, and the copies of the magazine disappear from the shelves here in the city, as well as in Mayberry.
“i know for a fact they HATE HATE HATE HATE when you say you dont speak french”
Only if they think you’re English Canadian (and therefore expected to be able to speak French).
i’ve never encounted the rudeness from any kinds of brits that i have with the french (canadians). the french are bad too, but i feel that is expected. i always thought french people living in canada were just ghetto or something.
*rob*
French people from France would say they don’t speak French either ;-). Word order and pronunciation is different (like UK English vs US English but prob more of a difference).
French Canadians like to say that they speak an older version of French…
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Hah. French Canadians are many things (quirky, eccentric, stubborn) but snobby ain’t one of them…
really… hmm.. well they sound that way. maybe it’s a cultural misunderstanding thing. i know for a fact they HATE HATE HATE HATE when you say you dont speak french :-/
*rob*
Hah. French Canadians are many things (quirky, eccentric, stubborn) but snobby ain’t one of them…
oooh yeah, ugly americans are terrible people, but ugly canadians are WORSE! well the ugly french candians. good lord, could there be a worse lot of more obnoxious snobby windbags?
*rob*