Tuesday Blogwrap
The Pavilion, Windsor Terrace. Photo by JiLLySP from the Brownstoner Flickr pool. BB Gift Deals [Brooklyn Based] Gossip Girl invades Cobble Hill [Cobble Hill Blog] Can You Identify This Construction Site? [IMBY] Bicycle Clowns vs. Hasids…Burg Bike Lane Chaos Continues [GL] Yassky Starts Pro-Permit Parking Facebook Group [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
The Pavilion, Windsor Terrace. Photo by JiLLySP from the Brownstoner Flickr pool.
BB Gift Deals [Brooklyn Based]
Gossip Girl invades Cobble Hill [Cobble Hill Blog]
Can You Identify This Construction Site? [IMBY]
Bicycle Clowns vs. Hasids…Burg Bike Lane Chaos Continues [GL]
Yassky Starts Pro-Permit Parking Facebook Group [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Brooklyn is definitely NOT a suburb, it’s part of the city. Even Staten Island (which is more “suburban” than anything in Brooklyn) is part of the city. NY Suburbs are on L.I., NJ, CT, Westchester, Rockland, etc.
Brooklyn Heights is America’s First Suburb.
http://www.southbrooklyn.net/b_heights.html
However, as Petebklyn points out, by today’s definitions and perceptions, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t fit that definition.
it’s inner city in the same way that parts of “LA” are inner-city. but the suburbs of LA that are inner city. brooklyn is a suburb of manhattan. brooklyn is the not the city. it is most definitely a bedroom community of new york city, manhattan. i have no problem with that, but a lot of people do for some reason, i find it odd. must be residual guilt from growing up in other suburbs or something.
*rob*
I dunno Rob. Most of Brooklyn is pretty inner-city by any definition. Residential does not = suburban.
you either look at it one of two ways… brooklyn is it’s own city (it’s the 4th largest, right?) OR it’s a suburb of manhattan.. which it is. i dont know why people get uptight when you call brooklyn a suburb?!
driveways? check
free standing houses? check
big ass families? check
christmas caroling? check
stoop & yard sales? check
ikea? check
skies? check
green parrots & raccoons? check
i could go on and on and on.
*rob*
Just building the brooklyn bridge didn’t make brooklyn a suburb.
quote:
Brooklyn is nothing like the real suburbs and never will be, even if you live in a leafy midblock.
sorry to burst your bubble, but brooklyn IS a suburb.
*Rob*
Cos cob- ite(s)?
Guilty. I Used to live one floor above a diner in front of a busy avenue with two bus stops. Will never again. It was truly awful during “open window season”, but not because of all of the noise, which was tremendous, but because of the black soot that would settle on every surface. An inch thick per week.
people are such sissies on this blog. and they call themselves brooklynites? Ha! they are displaced cos cob- ites.