Stereotyping Brooklyn Nabes and Missing the Point
You guys are going to have a field day with this one: Some recent arrival who writes about Brooklyn for the Hartford-based Examiner tries to stereotype summarize some of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods (those that don’t qualify as places that scare me,” that is; Cringe!). A few of our not-so-favorite out-takes: Brooklyn Heights: “Basically a Manhattan neighborhood…
You guys are going to have a field day with this one: Some recent arrival who writes about Brooklyn for the Hartford-based Examiner tries to stereotype summarize some of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods (those that don’t qualify as places that scare me,” that is; Cringe!). A few of our not-so-favorite out-takes:
Brooklyn Heights: “Basically a Manhattan neighborhood that happens to be on the other side of the river.”
Windsor Terrace and Kensington: “The few ungentrified (read: affordable, or, in the words of a white friend who lives there, no white people) areas left in Brooklyn that are still somewhat downtown Manhattan accessible.”
Clinton Hill: “Still affordable without being crappy.”
Prospect Heights: “A no-man’s land between Park Slope and whatever lays beyond.”
Crown Heights: “Blacks + Hasidic Jews + other = race riots.”
Xenophobic much?
Getting to Know Your Brooklyn Neighborhoods [Examiner]
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Housewives, that is. Mucho vino.
Wait. Who wrote this? Is it that social climber from Houswives of New York?
Flavorwire response and 6 word nabe naming comp:
http://flavorwire.com/11473/bucking-stereotypes-your-hood-in-six-words#more-11473
wow- do i miss all the fun or what? MMHTPH- much appreciation for the clarification. i was going to post but you beat me to it.
Agreed, the article sucks a big one.Has anyone told that girl that riding your bike through the streets does not constitute in-depth research? Somehow I get the impression that accuracy was not her aim- more that she loves the sound of her own typing.
I vote that Mr. Snark resurrect the SOTD for MM.
I haven’t read the comments up to this one particularly…I don’t have the time or eye-power any more to be that thorough…but, if you’re reading my 2-cent comment, let me just say, that finally having read the article in question late in the day (evening), it was lousy.
At least Fort Greene wasn’t knocked. Still, the article was just a junky attempt at cutesy. Plus, many, many neighborhoods were left out. Very poor attempt…but I guess this kind of article is what the website will continue to post since it got lots of comments and people looking at it…what is it called? Internet trafic?
hhh… Would be nice to have an educational article, not a college-student’s take on things.
Legion, you forgot to include Protestants among your Christians. It ain’t just about Catholics and the Eastern Sects you know.
Some Protestants, unlike Catholics who believe the bible speaks in mysterious terms, believe literally every word of the bible as translated by the renaissance court scholars of England’s King James in 1611.
Religion is odd, no doubt about it, but hey, we’re trying to make sense of NYC real estate, which is not exactly an open book, so to speak.
This article is so upsetting! What a pathetic idiot this SHPOS is? Does the moron really get paid to do this? Fancy education from where? We suggest she go back to the registrar of her school and request a full refund…seriously.
Talk about a piece of world class rubbish being published by a newspaper.
Please folks please stop insulting the journalistic profession by calling this dingbat a “journalist”. Whatever happen to basic research? And yes she is the worst kind of RASCIST you know the ones that think and believe what they are doing is totally right.
Can you imagine our insensitive this fool is?
The three religions of Judiasm, Christianity and Islam are linked through the running narrative of the three holy books; the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qu’aran.
Judiasm stops at the Old Testament and discount Jesus Christ as a false prophet. They still await the true Messiah.
Christianity (Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox) adds the new testament to the old testament. The new testament basically composed of various books by the desciples of Jesus. Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God who gave his life to atone for the sins of mankind and was reborn to show man the way to salvation and the kingdom of heaven.
Muslims believe the words of the old testament, the new testament and the more recent words of God as given to Muhammed and written in the Qu’aran (and which supercede the prior two books)
All three religions are linked by their belief in the same God of the Old Testament who spoke to Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed.
Similar themes run through the three books, for instance the Arch-angel Gabriel who in the Old Testament is sent to level the cities of Sodom and Gemorrah (two of the five “Cities of the Plain”), in the New Testament is the Angel of the Annunciation, telling Mary of her immaculate conception while in the Qu’aran, it is The Arch-Angel once again speaking the words of God to Muhammed.
Just clarifying some of the points for those here who are all too quick to dismiss 5000 years of religious history and tradition.
If I were still awarding SOTD, I’d give it to Montrose Morris for: “A teabag in a cup has had more time in hot water than this child has had in any neighborhood other than her own.”