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
Let’s take it all to the Open Thread then, Snark you’re right.
> “Can we get back to discussing the article”
What’s left to say about it? It was a lousy article in a lousy paper.
Let’s move on, shall we?
Be careful what you wish for with that shout out to “site moderators,” blackstoner.
infinitejester, there’s a difference between praying in public and sitting quietly on the subway reading the bible (or Torah) to oneself until some idiot like PropJoe comes along.
Can we get back to discussing the article without any further hits on the Examiner website. Yes, these idiots are probably happy that the crap she has written is boosting the hits.
Pretty sure we were talking about Jewish people praying in public.
btw, the “writer” of this trashy article gets paid in accordance to exposure (if i understand how Examiner works), so lets not do her any favors by giving her too many page views
i get really turned off when comment threads veer off into off-topic nonsense like the religious crap here.
i belive the site moderators should take a more proactive role in preventing this
I think we need to implement a separation of church and (real e)state here on brownstoner. No more prosyletizing.
^^^^^ wtf?? ^^^^^
“And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
Matthew 6:5-6, Matthew being the gospel traditionally associated with appealing to Jews regarding Jesus’s ministry.