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.
People ride bikes because its (1) healthy (2) cheap (3) keeps you fit. No-one claimed it was creative.
What a dingdong.
10:58
PLEASE GO BACK.
I’ve lived in both
SF is way better
Wow riding a bike to work is so creative. Yea you are so cutting edge riding your bike and listening to your ipod with Vampire Weekend on it wow you blow my mind with your hipness, Crap getting older is so much fun, I can’t wait to leave town this place is so lame, 18 years ago Williamsburg was kinda of interesting, Now it is shit like everywhere else. Please open a Starbucks there just to piss everyone off. Hey maybe they can have free bike parking there to make every rich hipster happy.My post may suck but at least It is not about the strollers and faded type.
dem some big azz cheeks!
10:12 — Ha Ha Ha….YOUR DA MAN!
10:36: enough already.
10:12 is spot on. And of course, the Brooklyn connection comes from the fact that people (outside of higher end Silicon Valley jobs) cannot begin to think of affording to live in Manhattan.
And East Oakland is far more like parts of Queens and maybe Bushwick than brownstone brooklyn.
why are brooklyn victorians (eg Ditmas park) generally so ugly with massive roofs and disproportionately small windows compared to the SF victorians.