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The Dubious Spread of ‘Très Brooklyn’
[…] A brief reminder of what Brooklyn used to be: “unsophisticated and unfashionable, the butt of the kind of jokes now directed at New Jersey.” Also, ”synonymous with crime, drugs and welfare.” But flash forward to 2012 and now it’s a “brand,” according to one Brooklynite quoted. Even if there are still murders, poverty, crime, and so on. Even if there are many, many different parts of Brooklyn, in which many, many different things happen, things other than artisanal pickle-making.
Read more. [Images: Flickr/Wally Gobetz, BushwickDaily.com]
Artisanal pickle-making is nothing to dismiss, Atlantic.
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Wait wait. There are things happening in Brooklyn OTHER than artisanal pickle-making?
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so it would seem that Moskin totally fabricated the widespread use of the term among young Parisians… I don’t understand...
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Neighborhoods change.
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Artisanal pickle-making is nothing to dismiss, Atlantic.
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My area of Brooklyn hasn’t gotten gentrified yet but all the people that were pushed out of their neighborhood is...
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I find this all tres degueulasse!! The redevelopment of Brooklyn is uneven at best and as the last part of the article...
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This is getting ridiculous. I’m moving to Staten Island
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