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
Only Orthodox men can read and study the bible, don’t you remember that old Barbra Streisand movie where she dresses up like a man in order to go to Yeshiva?
You know I am not in the least upset by this because I’ve never even heard of the Examiner before! So who the hell cares!!
THL…serious question…why don’t Jewish women read bibles. I actually see a lot of people on the A train reading bibles all the time.
Oftentimes there’s a lot of highlighting in them with 5 or 6 different colors at a time, which is rather scary.
PropJoe: Um, Jewish women don’t read Bibles.
The bakery case photo from the article is from Villabate Bakery in Bensonhurst (I’m positive). Funny, because she doesn’t mention Bensonhurst in the article.
In the link below from Villabate’s website you’ll see the same case from a different angle in the photo right below that of the “pizza cake”.
http://villabate.net/gallery
Jeez, what does it say about me that I can identify bakery cases??? Don’t answer that!
LOL…it’s the “cruising” part that scares us!!!! 🙂
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Certain people simply shouldn’t be writers. Our beloved Rob has admitted to living in Park Slope and never going to Prospect Park, I believe. I think he even said he hasn’t been outside a 5-10 block radius or so from his apartment. How can you have lived on 5th Avenue and never taken a 20 minute walk over to Smith Street?? I don’t know, but I digress.
lol. but i can read about every street from here! and i do plan on taking many trips around when it gets nicer out. when i first moved to bk i was in a bit of a funk. then winter hit full hard and im out of it. ill be up and around cruising all yall hoods soon enough! beware!
*r*
East New York – he’s a racist clown, no-one takes him seriously here.
7 pints!!!!???? I can get someone home and in bed for fewer than that.!!!
The answer to that will cost you about seven pints, mate!