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]
Photo by sept1
Where’d she learn this journalistic style???? Lifetime, TV?
“In short, it made me terrified of Brooklyn from an early age, and the experience of city blacks became at once more real and more alien to me.”
Please tell me this is satire!!
“One day when I have a real paying job, I will live here.”
it wont be as a writer.
in her article about spike lee’s do the right thing, she says “Brooklyn native Spike Lee’s most acclaimed film is virtually unknown to most non-New Yorkers”
and it wont be a job as a researcher. or anything involving, well, doing actual work.
Bonnie mentions Bed-Stuy in her review of ‘Do The Right Thing’
Check out this gem… and click on her page to view more.
What a hack.
“My first exposure to Brooklyn was as a child watching Spike Lee’s 1989 movie, “Do the Right Thing,†and what an introduction it was. The action revolves around the stoop-sitters and storefronts on a single block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn, where tensions of all kinds run high in the sweltering summer heat. The camera work is jumpy and erratic, the characters bombastic and larger than life, the 80s fashion and hairstyles spectacular. It’s also a remarkably incisive, particular film about race, not running away with its difficult emotions but also not forsaking the smoldering anger that informs every scene. In short, it made me terrified of Brooklyn from an early age, and the experience of city blacks became at once more real and more alien to me.”
yeah!
what’s with the “No white people in Windsor Terrace”?
I mean that whole nabe was and IS still mainly white
Ugh I HATE slacker writers!
“isnt it always under the discretion of the bar tender?”
I think that’s only if you are already stinking drunk.
What stereotype did you not fit for this place not to serve you???
There are no white people in windsor terrace? wtf?
no dave. i wasnt in the mood for a hissyfit in a strange far away neighborhood. ahhaha. plus i didnt think it was illegal for someone to not be served. isnt it always under the discretion of the bar tender?
*r*