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Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Should I be happy that my neighborhood (Prospect Lefferts Gardens) "beat out" some better known brownstone neighborhoods like Boerum Hill and Prospect Heights?
Nah--the whole thing is pretty silly!
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Your list is horribly biased, and should at least include specific reasons why you chose the neighborhoods that you did (from what I can tell, your bias is "white" and "wealthy"). If you simply present the list itself as you did, it's just reads as a weak, ranty, opinion piece that ignores the huge amount of great culture in many of the neighborhoods you snubbed.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
"this is a very touchy subject lol"
That is true.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
So dumb. How do you rank neighborhoods? Who are you ranking them for? The people who decide Brooklyn is the "cool" and "hip" place to live? How about the people who've lived here for ever? ENY, Brownsville,Marine Park, Sheepshead bay those are still neighborhoods...they havent been commercialized by YUPPIES and HIPSTERS. Park Slope isnt a neighborhood nor is carrol gardens those are over hyped commercialized areas that cost way to much to live there. Brooklyn is where i was born raised and reside, Brooklyn made me who i am today. Brooklyn didnt make these yuppies or hipsters who pay millions to live in these "neighborhoods". This is a bullshit list, I hope no one actually listens to this garbage. Let the people who are from Brooklyn rank thier neighborhoods, this is a very touchy subject lol
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Hmmm... looks like Crown Heights/Prospect Heights didn't make the list since it's not nearly as accessible as places like Red Hook (oh wait... there's a shuttle that runs right through it... connecting the C, 4, 5, 2, 3, and B & Q trains...).
Then again the culture couldn't possibly rival Fort Greene (just that behemoth Brooklyn Museum and some boring old plants at the Botanical Gardens, a thriving West Indian population, and smaller outlets like Launchpad which offer pay-what-you-can acupuncture and yoga, host sewing circles, community meetings, concerts, and art openings).
I'd surely starve/dry out here (if not for Franklin Park, Soda, The Vanderbilt, The Candy Rush, Way Station, Tom's Diner, Sweet Basil, Chavela's, Dean Street, Ample Hills Creamery, Washington Commons, or any of the other newly opened or scheduled -to-open bars & restaurants now dotting Vanderbilt, Franklin, and every Ave. in between).
I'll spend the money I save paying $600 in rent at About Time, Rosebud Vintage, Owl & Thistle, Unnameable Books, or Park Delicatessan (which is actually a skate/flower/handmade gifts shop), watch these rest of these huge condos come up, and you can tack Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO onto your list for reasons even you can't seem to identify. Second Thoughts Indeed.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
The (white) Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
How is Borough Park worse than Brownsville & East New York? Same thing for Gerritsen... Have y'all ever even been to BP or GB?
Re: “On Urban Ex-Pat Networks in NYC”
Perhaps this is structural? RustLover, it is possible that in those places you mention, far too large of a share of social goods is expended on transportation rather than on things like entertainment and food. When people don't have to gas up their car and pay insurance on top of that, they have thousands of additional dollars per year to pump into the local economy. Get tens of thousands of people together and that starts to add up to big bucks.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Prospect Heights was an editing error since corrected
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
really? with the exception of bushwick and maybe gowanus, these are also the most expensive hoods. lame, guys.
Re: “On Urban Ex-Pat Networks in NYC”
I view these burgeoning networks as incredibly critical-so, so much of the quality talent, resources and openness/progressiveness has been drained out of cities such as Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit. The politicians, developers and "economic development" agencies are plagued with corruption, ineptness and "silver bullet" solution. There is a desperate need for revolt and real solution-"outsiders" with an insider perspective could be just that. But change is not going to come easily, rest assured.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
No Prospect Heights?
Re: “Experiments in Living: A New Kind of Brooklyn B&B”
Right on! I miss you all and continue to draw pleasure and inspiration from our week at 3B. Frisco on Vashon Island, WA
Re: “Our Featured Cover Artist : Aaron K.”
O hai I heard u leik dump.fm? Yo Aaron, have you ever had an original thought b4?
Re: “Our Featured Cover Artist : Aaron K.”
lurks dump.fm all day for images other ppl create <3
Re: “Lies, Damn Lies, and Developers”
Exactly. No surprise here. Desperate people will believe anything and Ratner knows that.
Re: “Lies, Damn Lies, and Developers”
What's the surprise here? This whole boondoggle was a scam from it's inception. RATner & BUMberg & their rich fat cat cronies making themselves fatter & richer. Did anybody really think they would give 2 diddlies about the little guy?
Re: “Midwives Rule: Brooklyn to Uganda, One Baby at a Time”
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Re: “Who Will Take the New East River Ferry?”
Can you plse find out how the government subsidy works? Do they essentially agree to cover any losses for three years? Or?
