What's your favorite borough?
- Thread starter dggoldst
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Pardon me, but this is where I say:
Who the fuck voted for Staten Island?
Is that a bit? Please tell me it's a bit. You'd have to be blind and deaf to actually prefer Staten Island. I have reason to believe that staying on Staten Island too long will actually numb your senses. It will make you go crazy. It will suck any goodness from your life. It will cut you open and disect you like a frog, only you'll be so very much alive.
I :love: Manhattan.
Who the fuck voted for Staten Island?
Is that a bit? Please tell me it's a bit. You'd have to be blind and deaf to actually prefer Staten Island. I have reason to believe that staying on Staten Island too long will actually numb your senses. It will make you go crazy. It will suck any goodness from your life. It will cut you open and disect you like a frog, only you'll be so very much alive.
I :love: Manhattan.
I've dated a couple of girls from Staten Island and I found it to be a pain in the ass to get there, and I'm a native New Yorker.
Unless you're a mobster and want to live in million dollar homes by the water, then S.I. is the place for you.
I'm with Brooklyn, all the way, with Manhattan coming in second in my heart. I kinda like Queens but only the parts you can reach directly by subway. No subway-bus-another bus transfers, please. I can't stand that either. Though Corona/Jackson Heights is my favorite neighborhood in Queens. Easily accessible and cheap. Almost got a spacious 1 BR apartment there -- covered whole top floor in a 6 story home -- for $850 p/month before my then girlfriend decided that she'd rather live in Spanish Harlem for $150 p/month more (Manhattan was the only boro for her).
Yeah. I don't think I'd ever live in the city.
If a friend had a sweet UWS apartment for a sweet price and I was about to have to find a place and he offered it to me, I might take it just to avoid the ordeal of finding a place in a preferable borough (this almost happened once).
But otherwise, Brooklyn please.
Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Heights: Manhattan has nothing on these.
If a friend had a sweet UWS apartment for a sweet price and I was about to have to find a place and he offered it to me, I might take it just to avoid the ordeal of finding a place in a preferable borough (this almost happened once).
But otherwise, Brooklyn please.
Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Heights: Manhattan has nothing on these.
I used to disdain Queens. Then I started visiting the corridor from Woodside to Flushing under the 7 train, eating all kinds of crazy amazing food, some of which you can't get anywhere else in the country, much less the city. And then Brooklyn Heights started to look a lot more boring, and a lot more expensive.
Now I love Queens, and I live there.
Now I love Queens, and I live there.
By popular demand.
The Bronx. Gold, silver, and bronze.
I could give you a million reasons why Manhattan and Brooklyn are awesome, and a couple of hundred reasons why Queens is awesome. Hell, I could even give you three reasons for Staten Island. Why, then, the Bronx?
1. We started hip-hop. I am serious. Hip-hop in all of its forms - rap, R&B, dance, etc. - is probably the most definitively American and popular art-form to emerge from our country since Elvis shook his hips. And it started in the South Bronx, in 1975, at the fingertips of Kool DJ Herc. The other boroughs have helped further it along, but the Bronx originated.
2. The New York Yankees. Love them or hate them, they are the most successful professional sports franchise in the country. And they do it in the Bronx, and have since the days of Highland Park.
3. A lack of PBR-swilling, Von-Dutch-wearing, trend-fucking hipsters. We keep it real.
4. Within walking distance of each other: the New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx Zoo, and Fordham University. Nature, animals, and esteemed academia.
5. The Grand Concourse. The most vibrant street in the city, hands down. Also, architecture lovers, it's one of the foremost central locations for Art Deco buildings in the country.
6. Because while all of you people who cry "Manhattan, Manhattan!" or "Brooklyn, Brooklyn!" may genuinely love where you live, years down the line, you will move.
I have lived in the city long enough to know that areas like Park Slope go through ups and downs, and with those ups and downs come migrations. Your neighborhoods will become less desirable. The bars where you drink your Sierra Nevadas will close. The restaurants you know and love will disappear. It's how things work in New York City. You may think to yourself, well, Park Slope will never change. It will. Trust me. Change is inherent in New York City. That said, if you settle in the Bronx, you settle in the Bronx. You've already warmed to this notion, and you're fine with it. The trendy areas of Brooklyn and Manhattan are, eventually, bedpost notches. They're places you once lived. The Bronx - and to a lesser extent, the various townships that make up the borough of Queens - is different. Manhattan is a collection of businesses. Brooklyn is where the kids go to try to stay hip and young. The Bronx is neither of these things. The Bronx is a home. Try though the other boroughs might, by and large, they can not, and shall not accomplish this.
The Bronx. Gold, silver, and bronze.
I could give you a million reasons why Manhattan and Brooklyn are awesome, and a couple of hundred reasons why Queens is awesome. Hell, I could even give you three reasons for Staten Island. Why, then, the Bronx?
1. We started hip-hop. I am serious. Hip-hop in all of its forms - rap, R&B, dance, etc. - is probably the most definitively American and popular art-form to emerge from our country since Elvis shook his hips. And it started in the South Bronx, in 1975, at the fingertips of Kool DJ Herc. The other boroughs have helped further it along, but the Bronx originated.
2. The New York Yankees. Love them or hate them, they are the most successful professional sports franchise in the country. And they do it in the Bronx, and have since the days of Highland Park.
3. A lack of PBR-swilling, Von-Dutch-wearing, trend-fucking hipsters. We keep it real.
4. Within walking distance of each other: the New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx Zoo, and Fordham University. Nature, animals, and esteemed academia.
5. The Grand Concourse. The most vibrant street in the city, hands down. Also, architecture lovers, it's one of the foremost central locations for Art Deco buildings in the country.
6. Because while all of you people who cry "Manhattan, Manhattan!" or "Brooklyn, Brooklyn!" may genuinely love where you live, years down the line, you will move.
I have lived in the city long enough to know that areas like Park Slope go through ups and downs, and with those ups and downs come migrations. Your neighborhoods will become less desirable. The bars where you drink your Sierra Nevadas will close. The restaurants you know and love will disappear. It's how things work in New York City. You may think to yourself, well, Park Slope will never change. It will. Trust me. Change is inherent in New York City. That said, if you settle in the Bronx, you settle in the Bronx. You've already warmed to this notion, and you're fine with it. The trendy areas of Brooklyn and Manhattan are, eventually, bedpost notches. They're places you once lived. The Bronx - and to a lesser extent, the various townships that make up the borough of Queens - is different. Manhattan is a collection of businesses. Brooklyn is where the kids go to try to stay hip and young. The Bronx is neither of these things. The Bronx is a home. Try though the other boroughs might, by and large, they can not, and shall not accomplish this.