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
I think the lesson learned here is if you are a “journalist” or would like to be one, please refrain from writing any misinformed pieces about Brooklyn. The Brownstoner faithful will be on your ass.
BRG…what is the racial makeup of BR?? The only vision I’ve so far been able to formulate from everything I’ve heard is that there are apparently a lot of trashy girls walking around in clear heels.
She didn’t have anything to say about Bay Ridge?!
Definitely a racist!
Lighten up, PD^^^^^^^^. It’s essentially a thread about racism. If you can’t see beyond real racism and see the humor in that then that’s your problem.
DIBS – when did you decide that it was okay to post your racist “jokes” here? Cause it is not.
“I think the woman didn’t like a black man standing over her while she read her Holy Bible. Racist.”
You are not a black person.
Too bad this writer never actually went to look at some of these neighborhoods. Did she really say there were no white people in nearly-all-white Windsor Terrace / Kensington? Or was that a typo?
“She kept staring at me”
Not that anyone cared, but it’s clear PropJoe is lying because these ultra-religious Jewish women NEVER look another man in the eye.
NEVER.
Maybe it was because you smelled, PropJoe.