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
benson,
the book of Sam is apocryphal indeed.
Lots of Jewish misinformation going on in this thread that I will attempt to correct:
1) Lubavitch is a type of hasid. Worldwide Lubavtich headquarters are in Crown Heights (770 Eastern Parkway). Satmar is a different sect of Hasidic Jews, they are located primarily in Williamsburg and in Upstate NY in Kiyas Joel (near Monroe). The third common Hasidic Neighborhood in Brooklyn is borough park, which has a mish mash of several types of hasidic sects.
2) Hasidic women are in fact allowed to read the bible. Thay are forbidden from reading the talmud, which is a book of rabinnic discourse loosely based on the bible. That’s what Yentl is about.
3) In my own personal experience as someone who can read hebrew, most of the orthodox women you see reading hebrew books on the subway are actually reading prayer books, not bibles. Jewish Law requires one to pray 3 times a day: first thing in the morning, mid afternoon and evening. These people are just trying to efficiently use their subway time by using it to pray. Not sure why that offends anyone. There’s a ton of way more offensive things that most people do other than sit quietly and praying to themselves.
4) Those women who shave their heads and wear wigs do so because it’s considered immodest to let men who are not your husband see your hair. So unless they plan on lifting those skirts and flashing the public, they do not shave it off down there.
5) Pretty sure that DIBS is right and Prop Joe just smells and has a small package.
Late to the party, so the point has been made – the child is an untalented idiot with that ever so annoying, hip, ironic attitude that feels it must “tell it as I see it” about everything. That posture usually comes out wrong on almost every occasion, but the wonder of the internet has given fertile ground to a large crop of know nothing bloggers, who are clueless, and also lousy writers.
A teabag in a cup has had more time in hot water than this child has had in any neighborhood other than her own. The hammering she’s taken here and on the original site restores my faith in the good sense of Brooklynites. I feel no need to further elaborate on the point. Next idiot…..
Prop Joe, every time you post, you embarass yourself. Do us all a favor – smash your computer.
DIBS;
Up early to catch a train to our Tokyo HQ.
benson….Ohio Gozaimus….you’re up awfully early over there.
“Render unto the subway what is the subway’s,and unto the Lord what is the Lord’s.”
Book of Sam:3.13
The subway is meant for looking for eye candy.
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well, the Torah is part of the Bible. Christians call it the Old Testament. Same thing. It was translated to English from the Latin, which was translated from the Hebrew, so a few typos snuck in here and there but it’s basically the same thing. Blood, guts, retribution, arks, apples, burning bushes, you name it.
In addition to the Old and New Testaments, Catholic Bibles have “apocrypha” which are like bonus books. And then there are the books that never made it in becaus they are kind of wacky. I like bible studies but I never do it on the subway. It kind of ruins it for me. The subway is meant for studying Liz Smith and page six.