New Macro-Nabe Trend Launches with "Tri-Hood"
We hadn’t read anything in the press yet about a movement to merge the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York and Brownsville into the appropriately named “Tri-Hood”, but this tag-up on the walls of the Louis Armstrong Houses on Lexington and Throop may be the start of a new macro-nabe trend. Remember, you heard…
We hadn’t read anything in the press yet about a movement to merge the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York and Brownsville into the appropriately named “Tri-Hood”, but this tag-up on the walls of the Louis Armstrong Houses on Lexington and Throop may be the start of a new macro-nabe trend. Remember, you heard it here first!
Triple Threat [Flick’r, photo by Kevin Mason]
“It’s almost an instinctive reaction. No thought. No context. No balance in opinion. It’s simply, “here are my stats, end of discussion.””
I’d say its exactly as you said someone trying to provide support for their argument and its no more subjective than your “I know this neighborhood, based on my experiences…”
Some neighborhoods have more crime than others get over it.
Ok, Emeril, calm down.
Quick enough for you? In other words, mention PLG in a positive light? Bamm! Spit out the crime statistics! Mention Crown Heights in a positive light? Bamm! Spit out the crime statistics! Mention Bed-Stuy in a positive light? Bamm! Spit out the crime statistic!
It’s almost an instinctive reaction. No thought. No context. No balance in opinion. It’s simply, “here are my stats, end of discussion.” Which reminds me of the old adage: “some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp post – for support rather than for illumination.”
If you want to paint the patently false picture of Bed-Stuy as hell on earth or Brooklyn’s armpit (as folks did with FG/CH not long ago), what purpose are you serving? Does that make Clinton Hill any safer? Does that make Fort Greene any safer? Better yet, what’s your agenda?
What form of earth shattering information are you bringing to the forefront of this discussion that’s new or not already known? So there is poverty and crime in Bed-Stuy. Now what? As for me, I feel perfectly safe Bed-Stuy as I do at home in Clinton Hill/Fort Greene. I simply don’t jump at the sight of my own shadow. I don’t know, maybe I’m just different…..
How does Cindy Adams sign off her column in The New York Post, “Only in New York, kids, only in New York.” Ha, ha! I love this town…
Okay well good I am glad that when you say that I am “afraid of Black people” you are NOT saying I am a racist.
Just so your aware when I say your intelligence is significantly below normal – I am not saying you are stupid.
As to using Anon, your right, from now on I’ll use my real name “BeigeBullet”
conditoned reflexes
hey Mr. Big Ivy what does this sentence mean?
“Unlike you (Pavlov’s Dog), we don’t have to rely on city archives, government statistics or crime reports.”
Do you know who Pavlov is? Quick google before you answer…lol….
First, I never called you a racist. I called you a coward. Second, reread my posts. I never made black people into angels or white folks into monsters. Please don’t put words into my mouth. Still Anon, huh? Front and center as usual….that a boy! 😉
for starters his style of writing, tone and form of expression is as subtle as a bull in a china shop….