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Story of the year: NY Times discovers Brooklyn

Did anyone else fall in love with Brian Williams for his diatribe about the New York Times discovering Brooklyn? ("There are young men and women wearing ironic glass frames on the streets! There are open air markets, like trading posts in the early Chippewa tribe, where you can make beads at home and then trade them for someone to come over and start a small fire in your apartment that you share with nine others! Artisanal cheeses! For sale, on the streets of an entire American borough!")

http://www.brokelyn.com/the-brian-williams-new-york-times-video-annotated/

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uptowngirl Jan 27, 2011

@BroadwayBk that was way funny...

Uraniumfish Jan 28, 2011

So cute.

JenMac Jan 28, 2011

That is priceless. I love how dry his delivery is. What a wanker that writer is.

BroadwayBK Jan 29, 2011

Right? I gotta get to one of those flash artisanal markets....

Uraniumfish Jan 30, 2011

Is it safe to venture out to Brooklyn? Aren't the inhabitants...savage?

uptowngirl Jan 30, 2011

@Uraniumfish ha!

BroadwayBK Jan 30, 2011

Whilst hanging out in Williamsburg, my friends who reside in the city always make jokes about being shot.

NeverSleeps Jan 31, 2011

Agree with JenMac, I love his dry delivery and how he just keeps going! He had to have practiced that ahead of time.

JenMac Jan 31, 2011

I wanna get on the flash artisanal market too! Hit that up and then stare at the cool inhabitants with their horn rimmed glasses and foreign adornments.

NeverSleeps Jan 31, 2011

I really think he's captured the spirit of hipster irony as well.

BroadwayBK Feb 01, 2011

I wonder if the NY Times will ever write another article on the magical wonders of Brooklyn?

hhusted Feb 02, 2011

I watched the video and had to smile. It was funny in a way. Brian's take on Brooklyn. I haven't been to Brooklyn in over a year. I have heard people say to stay away from Brooklyn or you'll get shot. But the way he describes it makes you want to take a look.

ajadedidealist Feb 02, 2011

I usually love the New York Times. God bless its coddled Manhattanite highbrow irrelevance! (no, in all serious, I read The Ethicist and Social Qs religiously!)

BroadwayBK Feb 02, 2011

@hhusted Obviously you don't read the New York Times if you still think you're likely to get shot anywhere in Brooklyn. I mean, it's not impossible, but.... @ajadedidealist Both great columns. My religion tends to stick with Modern Love and the entire Sunday Real Estate section.

uptowngirl Feb 02, 2011

@BroadwayBK I have been subscribed to the online edition of the NYT for years and read everything and anything. Love Thomas Friedman and of course the real estate section..

hhusted Feb 03, 2011

@Uptowngirl and BroadwayBK: I do have a subscription to the online version of the NY Times, but haven't been to the site in over a year. I just don't get time to.

JenMac Feb 03, 2011

Or, any other publication, obviously, if you think you'll be shot in Brooklyn any more than you would be in Manhattan. Yep, the perilous danger and exotic flavors of Cobble Hill. And, the stroller brigade in Park Slope? They may as well be guerillas . . . . it's a war zone out there. Don't let the brownstones fool you kids.

uptowngirl Feb 03, 2011

@JenMac LOL

hhusted Feb 04, 2011

@JenMac: Drug zones are everywhere. They will get you, so you better stay off their turf, if you don't want to get hurt. :)

JenMac Feb 04, 2011

Ahahaha! hhusted, I'm pretty sure you can shot outside of a "drug zone" too. After all, John Lennon was shot outside of the Dakota, and I doubt there are many cartels in that neighborhood.

NeverSleeps Feb 05, 2011

The NYTimes discovered Bed-Stuy: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/love-family-and-change-in-brooklyn/?src=tptw Some of these pics date back to 2006, so I guess the paper knew about the neighborhood even then. Some really beautiful pics.

JenMac Feb 06, 2011

@neversleeps: so, then is this the north brooklyn renaissance according to NYT?

uptowngirl Feb 06, 2011

@Neversleeps those are some gorgeous photos! thanks for the link.

BroadwayBK Feb 06, 2011

@NeverSleeps Those are some awesome pics. Can't believe anyone could make Bed-Stuy look so good; I think I'm going to have to check out that guy's show this summer.

Uraniumfish Feb 06, 2011

So I thought Brooklyn was emptying out in the great Manhattan land grab, now that the recession is driving Manhattan prices down people are crossing the water? Is the NYT not in on this?