Where Is The New Brooklyn?
The Brooklyn brand has become synonymous with coolness, creativity and authenticity so much so that cities as far-flung and diverse as Anchorage and Doha, Qatar have joined Philadelphia and Baltimore on the list of spots being called the New Brooklyn. Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, says that Brooklyn has become…
The Brooklyn brand has become synonymous with coolness, creativity and authenticity so much so that cities as far-flung and diverse as Anchorage and Doha, Qatar have joined Philadelphia and Baltimore on the list of spots being called the New Brooklyn. Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, says that Brooklyn has become synonymous with gentrification (but, don’t worry, it’s the good kind of gentrification, he says—different from, say, the mall-ification of Soho). Brooklyn may become a victim of its own success, though, warns The Times: Now even Manhattan is being called the New Brooklyn.
Where Is the New Brooklyn? [NY Times]
LOL…someone just gave me an article clipped from the dining out section of the NYT titled: “Now In brooklyn, the 19th century” (Feb 25) about old school food shops and at the end they refer to brooklyn as “The East Coast of Berkeley”
What a load of crap!!!!
“The New Brooklyn” reminds of Woodstock 99. People attempting to re-live what can only have been experienced at a spontaneous point in time. These things are not invented; they just happen, thus cannot be recreated. Anything else is just a poor facsimile. Call it the “New Philly” or anything else for that matter, but get your own identity.
The old Queens?
If Brooklyn is the new Bronx, then what the hell is Staten Island?
How dare you benson?!! Brooklyn is the New Bronx 🙂
“Inner suburb” is, to my mind, a very accurate description of Brooklyn. I lived in London for many years, and “inner suburb” was a term applied to underground zones beyond central London (zone 1), composed primarily of residential neighborhoods and a corresponding level of commerce.
The “Outer London” suburbs, beyond the scope of the underground, yet easily reached via rail, are more similar in spirit (commuter havens) to say, Westchester, Northern Jersey, Fairfield, or LI.
I hear that the Bronx is now the “old Brooklyn”.
“brooklyn = an urban suburb of nyc. I KNOW brooklyn is nyc but really, it’s not. ”
Rob, are you really this ignorant? Brooklyn is NOT a “suburb”. NYC is comprised of 5 boroughs. Brooklyn is one of them. Its pretty simple stuff, really.
What’s this Manhattan everyone is talking about?