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Manhattan...pretentious wannabees who will never make it in life living in some rent controlled rat filled cubicle and bragging they live in a great city
Bronx: It's nothing but poor Puerto Ricans living in the projects. Wrong. They're there, but so are a lot of other folks.
Manhattan: There is no middle class there. Wrong. There is. But a lot of it is not white or lives north of 96th st.
Brooklyn: Just hipsters and Yuppies and hoodrats. Wrong. There is a middle class in Brooklyn too.
Queens: You live there when you just can't do any better. Wrong. Lots of variety,vibrancy, and reasonable cost housing.
and last but not least
Staten Island: Not really part of the city and too far away from everything. (OK. So that one is NOT wrong!)
If Staten Island fails the "real NYC" criteria suggested above simply because people can't walk to it from another borough, then the criteria chosen is particularly flimsy. They're islands, and "real New Yorkers" (more than 50%) take public transportation when they're going from one borough to another.
It's not the most popular notion, but I've always held that The Bronx was the real "not real New York" borough, owing to the fact that it's on the United States mainland, more-or-less separated from Westchester on a technicality.
I mean, Westchester Square and Eastchester are neighborhoods in The Bronx. Yuck. It used to be part of Westchester. It probably should still be Westchester. At no time was Staten Island ever a part of New Jersey, or were Brooklyn or Queens part of Nassau County.
Bronx: It's nothing but poor Puerto Ricans living in the projects. Wrong. They're there, but so are a lot of other folks.
Manhattan: There is no middle class there. Wrong. There is. But a lot of it is not white or lives north of 96th st.
Brooklyn: Just hipsters and Yuppies and hoodrats. Wrong. There is a middle class in Brooklyn too.
Queens: You live there when you just can't do any better. Wrong. Lots of variety,vibrancy, and reasonable cost housing.
and last but not least
Staten Island: Not really part of the city and too far away from everything. (OK. So that one is NOT wrong!)
Actually, there are barely any Puerto Ricans in the Bronx lol. Most of the Hispanic population are Dominicans (No offense to anyone). That may have been true back then when the Puerto Ricans moved to NY around the time that the Italians & Irish moved to NY. However, I think most cultures/nationalities when they moved to NYC have lived in the projects. When they are starting from nothing.
If you go to the U.S. forum, a lot of posters don't think there's really much to New York beyond 110th Street to Battery Park. The rest of it is pretty much worthless.
The part they do know (and like) is largely defined by the following:
Cabs/Transit
Chic Restaurants
Liberal Politics
High Culture
Elitism
bronx creates
brooklyn takes
manhattan makes
queens fakes
staten jakes
I remember that from the 80's
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