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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The best comment I saw on the article:
Wash Ave: I have to take a moment and not repeat what most people have said here. I just can’t figure out how you felt that you were qualified to summarize such culturally and racially diverse neighborhoods so callously and feel comfortable that your byline for “internet eternity” would be on such an “article” with comments like “there are no white people” as if to imply that this would make or break a neighborhood or describing crown heights in assinine equation (that is written like, duh, any time you have blacks and jews, duh, you have like, race riots, my god what’s wrong with you???) That’s on you and its a shame that whomever “looks over your stuff” didn’t yank this from going live for your own embarrassment. Or maybe you’ll never see the embarrassment of it, who knows. Cause everyone reading it is gagging from your ignorance and arrogance.
February 18, 1:07 PM
She should take her nasty wannabe gossip girl/red hook reality tv show vomitous person to hoboken. People like her DESTROY neighborhoods.
Animal Cops on Animal Planet always run into the most bizarre cases of abuse in Houston.
And steer clear of this neighborhood if you find yourself in Houston:
– http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/pets/others/5918362.html
Well, better yet, just steer clear of Houston in general.
the being deathly afraid of peacocks is an inside joke. you ever see the maury povich episodes where people would be afraid of innoculous thinks like pickles and stuff? and maury would bring a pickle on stage and the chick would run off the stage screaming and crying and totally out of control? well i had a bunch of people in my real life believing i was deathly afraid of peacocks. to this day they still think it. with horses i find them gross animals and they smell and they have creepy wall eyes on the sides of their heads. i just dont like them and don’t think they belong in human captivity. especially parks in the city. dont get me started on cops on horses. one time i almost got run over by a car on broadway when i ran across the street when i saw a gaggle of horses and cops coming down the street!
*r*
rob…don’t vacation at Las mananitas in Cuernavaca….beautiful Peacocks roam the grounds and can wind up on your room terrace!!!!
Ah yes, of course Torah, not bible…of course. PropJoe said “bible” and he of course could not distinguish the English from the Hebrew. But like I said earlier, she probably gave him a look because he smelled.
rob….I’ve never seen a horse on a leash. Why are you afraid of horses and peacocks???
i am always suspicious of ALL peoples reading religious type books. i always like to give them the stink-eye being all like, im watchin’ you!!
and 11217 i never said i never went to prospect park i said i went once and never went back after i saw horses off leashes there! (and you know im horrible afraid of horses and peacocks)
*r*
Thanks for the clarification Sam.
Huh. Maybe they do it as a learning tool? I personally wouldn’t know first hand.
What I was referring to were the Hasidic Women on the trains (since he referred to their wearing of wigs) who are most times praying/reading/studying with their Torahs.
I’ve never seen one with a bible.