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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Wow – just checked the comments on the examiner page. harsh to say the least. good!
No one has mentioned it in the comments or here, even tho it’s been commented on generally, but I think the ‘no whites in WT’ comment is a writing/editing error on her part. Naturally, given the stupidity of the article in general, and the fact that she obviously hasn’t been there, how would she catch it?
I’d bet she meant to say no BLACK people.
Jewish guys have big…bowl of dicks…an early happy bday to you!
Yes, Propjoe, but not Jewish, despite my namesake King of Kings.
DIBs,
I didn’t realize you were gay – not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I guess he would be a sockpuppet then.
DIBS, I think the fact he uses the word “prop” in his name tells us exactly from where the bulge in his pants comes.
PropJoe….in my experience, and it is vast, those that brag about it the most have the least to show for it.
11217,
That bald Yenta may not have been making eye contact but she definitely be staring – if ya know what I mean. I think she was intrigued by my Alabame Black Snake. Her beanie wearing husband(s) ain’t never give her something that big.