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I grew up in Queens. I went to NYU and worked in Manhattan for several years afterward.
Queens and Manhattan are the only boroughs I'm familiar with. I've only driven through the rest, without ever getting off the expressway.
If I can choose to live anywhere in NYC, I'd live in Queens. Queens has nice houses with green lawns. Manhattan is a concrete jungle -- all apartments and co-ops and row houses.
Manhattan: Pretentious gay men, hoardes of annoying white girl transplant from Iowa types living together in the same studio apartment and rich absentee Chinese buyers causing rents to skyrocket. Cool to visit, horrible to live in.
Brooklyn: Tacky obnoxious Guido's, murderous/blood-thirsty black thugs and now the transplants have started oozing into the borough...no thanks!
Bronx: Poor/lazy/dumb housing project people, immigrants, junkies and fat washed up hot-headed puerto rican women in cheap clothes.
Staten Island: Tacky overly-flashy obnoxious annoying Guido's in a boring area with nothing to do and no subway service. Forgotten borough.... Jersey can take it back.
Queens: Kinda like the suburbs but without the niceness/affluence/open-space and kinda like the rest of the city but without the amenities (NW Queens being the exception). The worst of both worlds.
Last edited by MemoryMaker; 08-01-2015 at 05:44 AM..
You mention the "Guidos," but what about the many Jewish (native born and Russian immigrant), Korean, Dominican, Indian, Pakistani, Greek, etc. etc. neighborhoods?
What about the nice, affluent, open-space areas of Queens (e.g., Forest Hills Gardens, Jamaica Estates, etc.)?
And Manhattan certainly has more demographics than pretentious gay men, white girl transplants, and absentee Chinese landlords.
If I had to live in any other borough, I'd leave NYC instead. My view is deer, trees and sunsets from the balcony (connected to an entire house which I own), as opposed to bums, criminals and crowds of smelly, skelly, annoying humans (sometimes barely).
History? Fuggedaboutit! Brooklyn has Prospect Park, the only place where George Washington truly got his ass kicked by the Brits. The revolution would have ended there and then but the overconfident effete slobs let him get away to fight many other days.
Hold up there! Don't you dare take credit away from the original G.W. for his amazingly daring nighttime retreat through the fog, across Manhattan, up to Harlem. It was and still is one of the greatest retreats of all time (Dunkirk comes close), and allowed Washington to contain the Brits in lower Manhattan for a considerable time after. The plan even included a regiment which stayed behind on a certain suicide mission to fake the British into thinking that the Colonials were still manning their posts to buy Washington more time to move the bulk of his men. Those who stayed behind spent the rest of the war in prison ships. Well, those who didn't die due to the horrible conditions.
The British most certainly did not allow the rebels to flee. Howe would have crushed every last one of them had he the chance.
Hold up there! Don't you dare take credit away from the original G.W. for his amazingly daring nighttime retreat through the fog, across Manhattan, up to Harlem. It was and still is one of the greatest retreats of all time (Dunkirk comes close), and allowed Washington to contain the Brits in lower Manhattan for a considerable time after. The plan even included a regiment which stayed behind on a certain suicide mission to fake the British into thinking that the Colonials were still manning their posts to buy Washington more time to move the bulk of his men. Those who stayed behind spent the rest of the war in prison ships. Well, those who didn't die due to the horrible conditions.
The British most certainly did not allow the rebels to flee. Howe would have crushed every last one of them had he the chance.
Not taking anything away from George, getting across the East River was extraordinary, but Howe could have finished him that first day if he pushed on. Instead Howe seemed to think GW was beat and it would be finished off the next day. Maybe so early in the war Howe thought he could get a surrender and not have to kill any more of what were then still British subjects, though quite naughty ones. He may have been thinking down the line to yet more bad feelings if he annihilated Washington, which would make him a better politician than a general, no one really knows what was going on in his head, but he blew it.
Manhattan. The outer boroughs wish they had the superiority and the relevance Manhattan has.
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