The San Fran-Brooklyn Love Connection
Did you know there are places to live in the United States aside from Brooklyn? Neither did we, but according to an article in the Style section of yesterday’s Times, there’s a place in California called San Francisco that is something of a sister city to Brooklyn. Or, as the piece puts it, “there is…
Did you know there are places to live in the United States aside from Brooklyn? Neither did we, but according to an article in the Style section of yesterday’s Times, there’s a place in California called San Francisco that is something of a sister city to Brooklyn. Or, as the piece puts it, “there is a young, earnest population that is beating a path between artsy, gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn and their counterparts in the Bay Area, especially East Oakland and the area south of Market Street in San Francisco, or SoMa.” So what do the two places have in common aside from loads of creatives? Local eyesores (Emeryville mud flats and the Gowanus Canal); good breweries (Anchor and Brooklyn); literary do-gooder establishments (Dave Eggers’ 826 Valencia and 826NYC); and a shared ethos: “If there is an aesthetic credo to Brooklyn and the Bay Area, it is Do It Yourself, which connotes more than using an Allen wrench from Ikea. D.I.Y. can mean everything from wearing locally designed T-shirts to attending concerts staged in someone’s warehouse apartment, to riding a bike to work.”
Sisters in Idiosyncrasy [NY Times]
San Francisco photo by Dizzy Atmosphere; Brooklyn photo by rsguskind.
Oh my 12:44. Yea real seasons are fun, like Todays weather is really awesome! Damn Fog is better than yellow and black snow anyday of the week.
don’t be jackin my handle
A lot of Brooklyn is hideous, but we’re working on it!
Yes, all those pretentious Dutch riding their bikes everywhere. Who do they think they are.
No offense, but San Francisco is barely a real city. New York, on the other hand, is a world capital and feels like it. Plus I dont know about the others on this thread but my Brooklyn surroundings are hardly “hideous,” they’re at least as attractive as anything I saw in San Fran. Space in NY in general and Brooklyn in specific is obviously expensive because so many people want to live here.
Plus I’ll take real seasons over your damn fog any day of the week.
Riding bikes is so creative. My goodness if only Jackson Pollock would have been riding a bike he would still be alive today.
I can not believe that the ip address of this person has STILL not been blocked.
Have you not noticed that commenting has dropped by 50-75% in the past 2 weeks?
I have lived in San Francisco and now live in Brooklyn. There is little comparison in terms of lifestyle. San franciscans enjoy life, savor their leisure, live well. NY and Brooklyn is all about work, work, work. People live in hideous surroundings, cut-up houses that have not been gracious since 1905. Most town houses are not subdivided in SF. If you own or rent a house, you use the whole thing. Plus you have a garage! There is no comparison. For the idiot who will invariably say that I should please move back: I’m working on it yo-yo!
There is really no comparison, and I haven’t even started on the weather.
Loved, loved, loved the comment from 10:12. Spoken as only a true artsy-fartsy, faux liberal, holier-than-thou whitebread could. May your hypocritical hipsterism keep you well stocked in PBRs, Chuck Ts, and cheap noserings for the rest of your deeply creative and meaningful life, sir (or madame)!