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
Park Slope = “The yuppieland of Brooklyn after the internet-startup boom 10 years ago. All-terrain SUV-type strollers, moms in Burberry and Lululemon, and well-groomed purebreds take up the width of sidewalks.”
Huh? Burberry?? (I dont even know what a Lululemon is) – sorry but this isnt Park Slope maybe:
Rich ultra liberals wearing horrible clothes is much closer to accurate – and BTW – DUMBO, B Heights and Cobble Hill are all likely wealthier and more “yuppied” than PS.
“As such, many areas are not well-equipped to the housing needs of today’s cosmopolitan residents. Unless you have the privilege of living in a brand new condo, expect some problems with utilities, roads, heating, power lines, structural integrity, vermin, and getting around with or without a car almost anywhere you live.”
Yeah, because when I lived in Manhattan, I NEVER had issues with spotty TV reception, road repairs, power failures, mice, getting around with a car, etc. etc….
OH, you mean this…..
i just want all the haters out there who are white to raise their hands. that is the true story on whether you like fort greene. most white people who live in park white slope, cobble cracker hill, boerum project hill or brooklyn whites, hate fort greene. too many colored people right, too many black artists, interesting people? if you hate us all, i am a black woman, why don’t you leave the US because guess what, a BLACK man runs your country. sure we have problems, but our diversity is our strength and people get mugged every day on park avenue but you haters never ever mention it, why is that?
Posted by: girlongrand62 at February 17, 2009 10:02 PM
NICE!!! And well thought out too!!!!!
I was under impression those weren’t “hasidic” jews in Crown Heights – but chabad-lubavitch.
Not racist, but a poor writer. Disagree. She is a poor writer because she makes no attempt to investigate what she is writing about. Oh and yes, very RACIST!
She ranted at the end of the fort greene thread
goldie…I didn’t see that…where was she ranting???
What an idiot.
What…whenever you talk about the retards it always brings back visions of “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest,” with you in charge.