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Old 03-16-2015, 04:00 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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What are the stereotypes of all Brooklyn neighborhoods that you have heard in the past?
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Old 03-16-2015, 05:39 PM
 
Location: New York NY
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These are the stereotypes that I've actually heard people say

Park Slope: Where Yuppies go to breed
N. Willamsburg: Hipster Paradise
Ft. Greene: Blipster Paradise
S. Wiilliamsburg: Hasidic Heaven
Crown Heights: Where Jews Meet Jamaicans
Bay Ridge: Brooklyn's Republican Stronghold
East New York: One Giant Slum
Coney Island: One Giant Slum With A Beach and a Roller Coaster

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Old 03-16-2015, 09:24 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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I wonder what stereotype Bath Beach and Gerritsen Beach gets.
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Old 03-16-2015, 10:05 PM
 
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These are the stereotypes that I've actually heard people say

Park Slope: Where Yuppies go to breed
N. Willamsburg: Hipster Paradise
Ft. Greene: Blipster Paradise
S. Wiilliamsburg: Hasidic Heaven
Crown Heights: Where Jews Meet Jamaicans
Bay Ridge: Brooklyn's Republican Stronghold
East New York: One Giant Slum
Coney Island: One Giant Slum With A Beach and a Roller Coaster
dont forget:

Brownsville: the South Bronx of Brooklyn (never ran never will)
Bushwick: a latino and black slum turned hipsterland
Flatbush: Caribbean immigrants and their bad arse children
Canarsie: when caribbean immigrants achieve their middle class aspirations
Bensonhurst: where Italians hate black people
Brighton Beach: Little Moscow
Borough Park: Jews. Lots and lots of Jews.
Red Hook: where ikea meets project housing
Bed Stuy: where gentrifiers (black and white) live next door to rough and ratchet black people
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Old 03-17-2015, 07:50 AM
 
Location: USA
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I wonder what stereotype Bath Beach and Gerritsen Beach gets.

working class whites.
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Old 03-17-2015, 07:51 AM
 
Location: Manhattan
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Brooklyn Heights...nice place to live (a true stereotype, like many are.)


Rest of Brooklyn: terrific, improving, gentrifying...(a not so true stereotype.)
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Old 03-17-2015, 11:52 AM
 
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Sunset Park: crowded, smelly, and noisy
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Old 03-17-2015, 01:14 PM
 
Location: Newark, NJ/BK
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Flatbush: Caribbean hood (ala Crown Heights) without Jews
Prospect Heights: Yuppie, Buppie, and West Indian Swirl
Gowanus: The Neighborhood That Stinks (literally)
Spring Creek: The nice part of ENY
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Old 03-18-2015, 04:48 PM
 
Location: Bronx
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What are the stereotypes of all Brooklyn neighborhoods that you have heard in the past?
Bensonhurst: Where Lo Mein meets Pasta
Canarasie: A middle class version of Flatbush
Brownsville: Worse than the South Bronx
ENY: Like the South Bronx, but only worse
Bed Stuy: Harlem
Greenpoint: It used to be Polish
Midwood: Where is that again?
Gravesend: Who's buried there?
Bay Ridge: Allah Akbar and Saturday Night Fever
Coney Island: Where Brooklyn Ends
DUMBO: The Disney movie?
Brooklyn Heights: Where priced out Manhattanites come to live.
Williamsburg: The New East Village and LES
Bushwick: Hipsters Vs Hispanics
Sheepsheads Bay: A white hood.
Brigton Beach: Mother Russia
Fort Green: Hipsters, churches and housing projects
Crown Heights: West Indians and La la, la la la la lahaaaaaa, la la lahaaaaaa , la la lahhhhhh
Sunset Park: Chiapas, Oaxaca and Pueblo
Borough Park: Mozel Tov
Park Slope: My children only eat organic.
FlatLands, its very flat.
Flatbush, bumba clot that's where me nanny ther
Red Hook: Swept into the sea by Sandy.
Beach Gate: Like the suburbs but only worse!
Prospect Park: Crowded, intimate version of Central Park.

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Old 03-18-2015, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Bergen County, NJ
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dont forget:

Brownsville: the South Bronx of Brooklyn (never ran never will)
Bushwick: a latino and black slum turned hipsterland
Flatbush: Caribbean immigrants and their bad arse children
Canarsie: when caribbean immigrants achieve their middle class aspirations
Bensonhurst: where Italians hate black people
Brighton Beach: Little Moscow
Borough Park: Jews. Lots and lots of Jews.
Red Hook: where ikea meets project housing
Bed Stuy: where gentrifiers (black and white) live next door to rough and ratchet black people
Lol, no brownsville is just sh**ty brownsville.
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