Why Is Brooklyn Cooler Than Manhattan?
That’s the question someone has asked over on the Q&A site Quora. Here’s one response, from a Manhattanite: “It’s not. Us Manhattanites just help perpetuate the myth that Brooklyn is cooler to keep the over-zealous crowds out of Manhattan. Except Ft. Greene. Ft. Greene might be cooler than Manhattan.” If you can’t be bothered with…
That’s the question someone has asked over on the Q&A site Quora. Here’s one response, from a Manhattanite: “It’s not. Us Manhattanites just help perpetuate the myth that Brooklyn is cooler to keep the over-zealous crowds out of Manhattan. Except Ft. Greene. Ft. Greene might be cooler than Manhattan.” If you can’t be bothered with the sign-up, feel free to opine below.
I would do Jersey City. We lived there for two years before the moppet was born, moving back to Brooklyn just in time to have her.
But the kid is getting entrenched in Brooklyn, so I want to stay in same school/friend area we’re in now — roughly.
Heather, if you moved to BedStuy near Sara’s you might have some of those things. Bookstore just closed, alas, but the Macon library is there. Don’t know about the schools — Brooklyn Prep, maybe.
I read the headline and really thought it was a climatic reference. And was going to point out that ocean down near Coney can keep that area cooler in summer and little warmer in winter.
two words… Jersey City
though I’ve become rather partial to Bed Stuy as of late.
I would need a driver, dirty. Also, I have hated burbs, real ones, since childhood. Not about to change stance now that I am old and set in my ways.
But Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, probably because they ARE so fabulous are really, really expensive at the moment, especially for space. While we can afford to live here easily, we can’t afford to live here expansively.
Back to Bed Stuy, is more what I am thinking.
“What I want is those things and a really big apartment or house with a yard.”
the burbs are callin yo name!!
Brooklyn Greene, I live in Fort Greene.
Or possibly Clinton Hill. I think our side of the street is Clinton Hill…
What I want is those things and a really big apartment or house with a yard.
I’m with Pierre de Petite Taille. Whoever said Fort Greene is “cool” was right! 😉
Well…at least all of the 20- and 30- somethings seem to flock here for some reason.
I’m afraid it may have gotten too cool for us fuddy-duddies.
Heather,
If you want that list of things, if your kids are heading into high school, then you may think about Fort Greene. There are pubs, restaurants, 24-hour places, Flesh Direct deliveries and wonderful Greenelight Bookstore.
If we could just have a fish/seafood place like the one in Chelsea Market I think I would faint!
Upon reflection, all these things are *not* cool. It all sounds bourgeois!…Oh, well…
brockesen–you’re not alone.
tradionalmod–how long (if ever) before park slope gets so uncool that rents drop enough that it can become cool again?