What's your favorite borough?

What's your favorite borough


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#43
Dan Dunford, that was an impassioned argument. However, impassioned arguments, while sweet to the ears, can deceive. Beware of well-wrought Bronx-praising phrases! Go Brooklyn!

Brooklyn has a well-wrought carousel.

 
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Dunford

Among Men, Dunford
#44
Brooklyn is so much more than Williamsburg and Park Slope. It's also Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights, the other neighborhoods in and around Prospect Park (the good ones, yo), especially the ones close to the subways. It's not so much Crown Heights (unless most of you Brooklyners visit there regularly) though! Watch out for Crown Heights!

I live in Albany, but home will always be the Bronx. Everybody feels that way about some place - correct me if I'm wrong, MJC, but don't you feel that way about Philly?
 
#45
Most of the people I know who grew up in Bronx (particularly the South) moved the hell out as soon as possible...and strangely enough moved to Albany.

You can't characterize a borough on less than 10 percent of the population or the reaches of their gentrification. Enjoy the other 90 percent worth the hella' commute.

I lived in Crown Heights for a year. It might not be the cleanest neighborhood, but don't knock it till you've lived in its classic brownstones and sampled the cuisine and booming native art scene.

Brooklyn: Ain't what you want, baby...It's what you need!
 

LuluB

PUPPY HEAD!
#46
Dan Dunford said:
3. A lack of PBR-swilling, Von-Dutch-wearing, trend-fucking hipsters. We keep it real.
as i pointed out to tony in the rnc protest thread, real hipsters have long ago abandoned their von dutch. gee dan, what has albany done to you?
 

VarietyUndrgrnd

@the Parkside Lounge
#47
Mullaney, is there room on this thing for a Fashion Moderator who could change all Von Dutch references to Jordache or whatever the shit is popular now?

If so, I second Kula.
 

Brownstone Brat

Hates the LAX-JFK redeye
#53
Two Brooklyns?

You're kidding, right?

Stop with this Real Brooklyn vs. Fake Brooklyn bullshit.

Brooklyn is Brooklyn. I've lived there all my life. My father's lived there all his life. Everyone I know from Crown Heights, Sheepshead Bay and Ditmas would never make a distinction between their Brooklyn and mine (Park Slope) except that where I am has better subway access and fewer old age homes.

Stop posturing and just vote for our friggin' borough please.

(FYI...the fake hipster brooklyn diatribe REALLY pisses me off.) :love:
 

Brownstone Brat

Hates the LAX-JFK redeye
#55
Tis true, Dr. G.
I was born at New York Hospital.
But my parents rectified that situation as soon as they could.

I will ammend my statement thusly: I have lived in Brooklyn for most of my life. My father has, too, lived in the fair borough of Brooklyn for most of his life. While I was reared a Park Slope Princess, my father spent his youth in the rough and tumble neighborhoods known as Crown Heights and Kensington.
 

Alex

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#57
Queens has diversity but Brooklyn has character.

Manhattan can never be "over rated" but the fact that it does overshadow the rest of New York City does piss me off... kinda like when people call the Queens Borough Bridge the 59th St Bridge.

Even though I am from Queens I vote for Billytown because it has less dead people. I guess if I’m lucky enough to push up the daisies from Calvary cemetery I’ll change my vote.
 
#58
Alex said:
I guess if I’m lucky enough to push up the daisies from Calvary cemetery I’ll change my vote.
My grandparents are in Calvary! Woo hoo, but they are from Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I guess the only way they would want to live in Queens is dead.
 
#60
I voted for Manhatten and I fully agree with you Robert, that Brooklyn could take any of the other boroughs in a fight. I looks to me that it is a close call between Manhatten and Brooklyn with only 5 votes separating them thus far.
 
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