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]
Snort! I think Rob was just called a little old lady!
(ooooh i never make fun of what people wear). just what they charge people for the crap they made. seriously, you can look at any of my posts, im not one of those obnoxious fashion police. (trust me, my badge would be revoked, stat)
*rob*
Rob,
I was born and raised in the midwest, though I have lived away from there longer than I lived there by now. Flannel shirts and apple pie are not ‘midwest culture.’ There is no midwest culture in Brooklyn. There is some people taking little bits of midwestern food and clothing, but that ain’t midwestern culture, and everyone should be glad about that.
Expensive pie and giving a shit what other people wear is contemporary Brooklyn culture.
Midwest culture includes:
Taking your boy out of school on opening day of deer season to go hunting.
Military service.
Jesus.
Hard work for low pay.
Fishing with bait.
You won’t see much of that in a hipster cafe. I’m not complaining, or defending the midwest, I’m just saying that only in Brooklyn do folks like you sit around and complain about what kind of pie someone eats and what they’re wearing.
Actually, caring too much about someone else’s fashion is the closest to the nosy, churchy midwestern culture that Brooklyn gets, but in the Midwest that is usually the job of the old ladies.
“also i think it’s best people just be able to take a joke with stuff like this..”
With this I wholeheartedly agree.
“lollerskates. do you really think these people interact with most of their neighbors? um, no. they are beyond clannish and cliquey.”
On this point, *rob*, I disagree with you. Just look at the diverse group of Browstoners who hang out together.
“more heartland than Big Apple”
I don’t buy it, although George Washington Plunkett did long ago observe that
“a Brooklynite is a natural-born hay. seed, and can never become a real New Yorker”.
http://books.google.com/books?id=q3SlQoxj_4UC&pg=PT49&lpg=PT49&dq='your+Brooklynite+is+a+hay+seed&source=bl&ots=neSVeDNn_Q&sig=AxVhD_fDaNef7OXzFvmzgEFmDpk&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
also i think it’s best people just be able to take a joke with stuff like this.. (personally im not trying to offend anyone), these topics are just way surreal and way too funny not to sorta mock
*rob*
quote:
. Also it’s a great list of Brooklyn’s best businesses.
no, it’s not. look at that map. it’s essentially the entire Moonface Frontier of brooklyn. where is the other 75% of it? i think you meant to saying brooklyn’s most overHYPED, most overPRICED establishments.
and quote:
that you can live in real neighborhoods, with local merchants who care about what they sell and know their customers as neighbors, while still living in the art, theater, media, finance, etc. capital of the United States.
lollerskates. do you really think these people interact with most of their neighbors? um, no. they are beyond clannish and cliquey.
*rob*
“Does anyone think the readership of Country Living will ever step foot in any of these places????”
No.
But some investors will create chain stores that mimic them and bring them to wherever Country Living subscribers live.