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Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
"Seems you rated the neighborhoods by the concentration of faux lumberjack shirt wearing, penny farthing riding, thick eyeglasses wearing, greasy lice infested neckbearded, moldy Chuck Taylors, overpriced vintage clothes and American Apparel wearing, ironic t-shirts, Macbook lugging, murse carrying, skinny girl jeans on guys, bedbug incubating wool hats and scarves in the summer, girls in shapeless dresses with uneven skirt hems, kickball playing unicycle riding nasally kazoo voiced unpaid intern banjo playskool xylophone bands, fauxhemian artistes have gravitated to certain areas. There aren't any of those easy-to-identify trustafarian interlopers in East New York or Wingate, hence those neighborhood's low rating. FYI, just because you live in a so-called "arty" neighborhood doesn't automatically make you an artist. I've seen what you try to pass off as "art". What you try to pass off as "music" and "fashion" is even worse."
This is all pretty much true. Except for the part at the end about how well you know us.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Seems you rated the neighborhoods by the concentration of faux lumberjack shirt wearing, penny farthing riding, thick eyeglasses wearing, greasy lice infested neckbearded, moldy Chuck Taylors, overpriced vintage clothes and American Apparel wearing, ironic t-shirts, Macbook lugging, murse carrying, skinny girl jeans on guys, bedbug incubating wool hats and scarves in the summer, girls in shapeless dresses with uneven skirt hems, kickball playing unicycle riding nasally kazoo voiced unpaid intern banjo playskool xylophone bands, fauxhemian artistes have gravitated to certain areas. There aren't any of those easy-to-identify trustafarian interlopers in East New York or Wingate, hence those neighborhood's low rating. FYI, just because you live in a so-called "arty" neighborhood doesn't automatically make you an artist. I've seen what you try to pass off as "art". What you try to pass off as "music" and "fashion" is even worse.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
"Using a very scientific approach, we judged neighborhoods on criteria like food and drink, accessibility, culture, infrastructure, affordability, and our deeply held prejudices--" I'd say your prejudices are very deeply held indeed--East New York, Flatlands, Wingate and East Flatbush, all at the bottom. I'd rather not say what "science" it was that you were using.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
@JC
Next issue: The Ten Most Ethnically Authentic Brooklyn Neighborhoods
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
how on earth is greenpoint #1? accessability.... hello?
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
"So essentially the places that ranked highest were once diverse neighborhoods that became gentrified and lost the ethnic authenticity while dishing up a heaping serving of pretentiousness."
Pretty much, yeah!
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
So essentially the places that ranked highest were once diverse neighborhoods that became gentrified and lost the ethnic authenticity while dishing up a heaping serving of pretentiousness.
Reminds me of that King of the Hill episode where hipsters start moving in.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
@SwampYankee
My page says 22 comments and I count 22 comments.
Also, this is fun, you guys.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Bushwick better then carroll gardens? parkslope? brooklyn heights? Are you guys on crack.... Bushwick has three decent places to hang out.. Put down the pipe and venture into REAL BROOKLYN!!!!!!
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
>gowanus
>ranked higher than brooklyn heights
>whatthefuckamireading.jpg
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
L magazine is censoring comments. Page says 19 comments, I only see 14. If the Times censored you comments you would be screaming like that hipster who was pepper sprayed. L magazine nothing. This is Pravda
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
"Using a very scientific approach, we judged neighborhoods on criteria like food and drink, accessibility, culture, infrastructure, affordability, and our deeply held prejudices about the time we’ve spent there."
In other words, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Thank you SwampYankee! I completely agree. This report is brought to you by Ignorance. ..Ignorance, living off their parent's trust-fund and trying out New York for a few years.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Isn't it, depending on how one cares to view this, as either too late or too early for the annual April Fool's Day piece?
Your rankings have nothing in common with reality, just like the nasally, kazoo-voiced, Mr. Salty-physiqued, flamingo leg-armed, lumberjack shirt and chick jean-attired, wearing-ironic-wool-ski-caps-and-scarves-in-the-summer, neckbeards-doubling-as-a-lice-farm, sustainable, organic, fair trade, I'm-waiting-for-my-first-gallery-exhibition, latte foam sculpting, artisanal kickball coordinator/laptop author/"indie" flugelhorn consultant, bedbug-breeding Like Yahstafarians named Hummus, Hayden and Josh and their equally annoying pasty-skinned, pure-bred Ohio Cankle Spaniel female counterparts, Zoe and Meghan, at whom you direct this pretentious Baedecker Guide for useless, attention-starved me-monkey staycationing urban explorers who want information on how to maximize their parentally-subsidized gritty in-the-trenches experience in that magical and whimsical hipster theme park known as Brooklyn.
These cultural vampires, who have never even been to Brooklyn will feel that they've amassed enough knowledge from this worthless random selection of words you consider an article to believe that they are now experts in all matters Brooklyn, without even stepping foot into the borough. Using your superficial and shallow insight as a definitive reference as to what is the "real" Brooklyn is akin to asking someone in Bangladesh which restaurants in Kansas City he would recommend.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Bushwick. oh come on! Just b/c the writers are too ridiculous to live in other cheap nabes doesnt make Bushwick #7.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
Ah, yes, ranked by Midwest transplants. Notice how all the neighborhoods with the highest concentration of people ACTUALLY BORN IN BROOKLYN!!!!! are ranked near the bottom? So this is the hipster ranking based on people born out of state, loving cycle lanes, drinking PBR, wearing thick frames, with the thinnest arms, self identifying as "creative", listinging to crappy music, having read neck beards, wearing itchy wool hats and scarves in summer, riding a fixie, with loud clubs and restaurants than will close in a year? I , I also compared this to the most snooty expensive trendy coffee and the ranking came out exactly the same. Whoever took this is full of s&*t, they have never been to most of the neighborhoods.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
"Bias towards white and wealthy"....Ah yes:
#1 Greenpoint, Land of the wealthy
#2 Clinton Hill and Ft. Greene, land of the white
#3 Ditmas Park, gentrified overdeveloped hellhole....
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
This reminds me of Funston's big board on Yahoo Fantasy Baseball. I love it.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
How is Prospect Heights not #1???!
I live in Fort Greene BTW.
Re: “The Brooklyn Neighborhood Power Rankings”
@ CT
"Using a very scientific approach, we judged neighborhoods on criteria like food and drink, accessibility, culture, infrastructure, affordability, and our deeply held prejudices about the time we’ve spent there."
