This Checklist is the New Brooklyn
Kandy Harris | February 4, 2015Somebody at All Over Albany must have been reading our minds, because they recently posted a checklist “for Upstate Place/Rust Belt City is the New Brooklyn articles.” And by gum, we think they’ve got it. Here are the first few bullet points from the list:
“❑ (This Place) is The New Brooklyn.
❑ It’s so cheap compared to New York.
❑ And it’s post-industrial. This was a factory!
❑ No, seriously, guys, like, it is so cheap. They’re practically (or literally) giving away properties.”
It gets better from there. Our thoughts and feelings on the overdone, over-pummeled dead horse cliche that is [Fill in the Blank] is the New Brooklyn can be summed up thusly by the author of the checklist:
“Other [articles] are just irritating, in that all these diverse places end up being defined in reference to Brooklyn. The praise delivered often has a faintly condescending tone. And the problems inherent in these cities’ growth is glossed over.”
And that’s putting it mildly.
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