More nice press for the hood, in a piece by Mel Neuhaus on a site called offManhattan, which includes the parenthetical that "an out-of-town guest of ours, enthralled by the cool laid back dining and entertainment nocturnal atmosphere, ebulliently christened the district as The Brooklyn Hamptons."
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Someone in the neighborhood is REALLY working hard to get this area written up in as many blogs, newspapers, magazines, etc. This claim just seems very over the top.
"ebulliently christened the district as The Brooklyn Hamptons."
Well that's the kiss of death.
Flatbush Gardener reports on his blog that in the City section of the morning Times, there is a write up on the "other Victorian Flatbush neighborhoods"
I have absolutely no idea what this means. It just sounds silly.
Ok, now I do really like Ditmas Park,sometimes I even love it a bit, but come on,..."a mini urban wonderland of exciting cafes, restaurants, and shops?" Are you kidding me? Maybe if you've spent the evening in the Farm, and you've had one too many cranberry margaritas, and you left your glasses at home,and you upped your dose of prozac, maybe. I think Mel Neuhaus should ask the overnight guest to stay on for a week or so, and then reexamine whether this is really "the Brooklyn Hamptons." One question, does Mel Neuhaus have any relationship to Mary Kay Gallagher?
Looks like any "positive" mention, no matter how inane, is worth regurgitating on this blog.
The flowery language is just too much. I imagine Mel in a tweed shirt, bow tie, walking stick and monocle. Yeah, it's Victorian flatbush, but I think it's 21st century -- put the stuffiness aside.
"celiath said...
Looks like any "positive" mention, no matter how inane, is worth regurgitating on this blog."
Basically, any mention at all. There's not all that much news around here!
Why are people upset about positive, albeit slightly exaggerated mentions of their neighborhood?
This is the kind of rediculous marketing you would expect of Park Slope.
"The Brooklyn Hamptons" is just retarted.
Whoever IS trying to pump up the nabe on the web and in press and the media is doing a pretty darn good job of embarrassing us.
Stop it already. Let the neighborhood grow naturally. Stop giving the area all kinds of names and hyped up press. Enough already.
The neighborhood can't possibly keep up the pace in the real world with how great it's getting in the cyber world.
Really, by reading blogs and newspapers you'd think this place was gentrifying steadily each day. Yet, when I walk down the street it lookds the same as it did a few months ago.
The neighborhood is a great place and getting better, but stop falsly advancing it onthe computer.
How can you refer to any place as the "blank Hamptons" if the place does not have a beach?
It's nonsence really.
Now that we have a French Bistro, let's start to call Newkirk "Little Paris".
Funny, there is not one single thing this neighborhood has that is comparable in any way shape or form with The Hamptons.
No beach, no beachfront property, no expensive galleries, no really famous celebrities, no jitney to our neighborhood in the summer, no tourists, no nothing.
Someone just made up something that makes no logical sense and then it gets repeated on a blog because it sounds good.
Why not call Windsor Terrace Brooklyn's Monte Carlo?
The silliness that the internet stirs up is just astounding.
"coll laid back dining and entertainment"? Has this person ever been out to eat before? Thre are literally thousands of restaurants in NYC, and Corteyou Rd has two. You can find hundreds of "laid back dining establishments" all over the City. And what kind of entertainment is this person referring to? If sipping beverages on your friends front porch or back yard patio ranks as entertainemt and classifies an area as Hamptonesque, then pretty much any one that lives anywhere with a porcha nd a backyard is living in the Hamptons.
Last I checked This area didn't have a real entertainment venue.
I am looking for all these restaurants where are they? This is a pretty dull neighborhood if you ask me. I always end up going to the slope of the city for drinks. It's a nice nabe to come home to sleep and relax after a long day in the city but really there is not much to do around here other than walk around the hood and hope you don't get mugged.
I love this neighborhood just because there is just enough going on for you to stay local once in a while but close enough to the more trendy neighborhoods where the activities are abundant. I too want the place that I lay my head to be quiet and peaceful.
"The Brooklyn Hamptons" is just retarted.
Whoever IS trying to pump up the nabe on the web and in press and the media is doing a pretty darn good job of embarrassing us.
"RETARTED"!?
Seems a little strange to get so worked up over a comment in a blog that -- I'd imagine -- few people had read or heard of until reading the quote here.
We all saw the "retarted," as well as the "falsly," but didn't think it was that serious. It's a blog.
8:57: Per secion 13 stroke 9 of the Universal Blogging Code, "....the only time it's acceptable to call somebody out on spelling is when, in the course of ripping into somebody else's intellectual shortcomings, they betray their own."
Besides, as the parent of a developmentally disabled, twice baked pastry, I was personally offended by the use of the term.
Good point, Ben. LOL : )
I would be more offended if someone called me a "developmentally diabled, twice baked pastry" than I would if someone called me "retarted."
"the only time it's acceptable to call somebody out on spelling is when, in the course of ripping into somebody else's intellectual shortcomings, they betray their own."
Point taken however...
The statement by Anon. 2:i7 reads;
""The Brooklyn Hamptons" is just retarted.
Whoever IS trying to pump up the nabe on the web and in press and the media is doing a pretty darn good job of embarrassing us.
And of course pointing out RETARTED was to show that the poster was doing a pretty good job of embarrassing him/her self.
BTW - Instead of a pastery wouldn't RETARTED refer to dressing up AGAIN as a tart.
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