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
Bonnie’s brief bio:
After a fancy education, Bonnie worked at and wrote for some fancy publications about this and that. Priced out of Manhattan, she washed ashore with other 20-something dreamers and settled in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Rewrite:
After a fancy education, Bonnie worked at and wrote for some fancy publications about this and that. Fed up with her drivel, she was fired from one paper to the next. Priced out of Manhattan, she washed ashore with other 20-something morons and settled in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn and leads a thankless life as a bitter enter.
How about that caption:
“Brownstones are common in all neighborhoods of Brooklyn.”
rob…you should have threatened to call the police if she wouldn’t serve you.
what’s the real deal with gravesend…? my only experience there i had to go pick up an old school video game system from some woman who was selling her son’s stuff who moved away a long time ago. i get there and it was HER mother with a bag standing outside. she was like, hey you better be careful, it’s gotten pretty dangerous around here lately. it seemed fine. a pretty fugly area but not really and kinda cool. i think it was under an elevated train. it was waaaaaaaay out there. before heading back home i decided to stop in a bar for a drink and this woman behind the bar REFUSED to serve me. wtf? i asked for a drink and she flat out said NO! i was like okaaaaaay lady and left on my way.
then i see this site and see that houses in gravesend for like 4 million dollars sometimes? it’s so far out there and it didnt seem all that pretty to me granted i was only walking around a few blocks. so what is the real deal with that neighborhood.
*r*
AND NO MENTION EVEN OF BED STUY, PROBABLY THE MOST WELL RECOGNIZED NAME OUTSIDE NYC OF ANY BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD.
She was probably afraid to visit.
I gained an appreciation for the journalistic integrity of this piece when I clicked on their website and saw another item entitled, “10 Things you need to know to be a Great MMA Fighter #3”.
Here we go again.
Sounds about right for Prospect Heights.
Where’s PropJoe when we need him to sort this Jewish stuff out.
I’m oftentimes so confused in Bed Stuy with so many churches that I’ve never even heard of I could be a different denomination every day and never get to attend all of them!!!!!