Does any sense of "Brooklyn as a city" still exist?

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by acpii

I also suspect that anyone born and raised in one of the five boroughs (and doesn't travel much out of the borough) has the same sense of their borough being it's own place/city or whatever word we're using to describe being from "somewhere".

Aren't people from "Q-boro" considered "thorough"? If you're from "Bed Stuy" aren't you "do or die"? People from "BX", "The X", or "The Boogie Down" aren't from any ol' Bronx, they're from The Bronx, no? I think I'm in the small minority that actually says they're "from Manhattan", not NYC, LES, SoHo, Tribeca, UES, Harlem, etc.

University was the first time I mixed with people from Long Island and more often than not they lead with "I'm from Long Island" not the village, hamlet, or town they're from.

I can't speak for every other neighborhood or borough. The sense I get from Harlemites is that they take pride in being from Harlem, but don't really consider it its own sort of faux/quasi-independent thing the way Brookylnites do. The fact you have a team called the Brooklyn Nets or the Brooklyn Dodgers or the Brooklyn Cyclones speaks to that (though I suppose there's the Harlem Globetrotters). The other boroughs just have New York teams that happen to play in those boroughs.

[BajanYankee]

What other place in the U.S. (that wasn't its own jursidiction) has had its own Big Four professional sports team? The pic says it all, no?



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[11KAP]

Brooklyn was the big apple before it was a borough of nyc, but you don't have to let it go all the way to your head. We still love the rest of ny.

[Bronxguyanese]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

What other place in the U.S. (that wasn't its own jursidiction) has had its own Big Four professional sports team? The pic says it all, no?



http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecac...ts-01-2014.jpg

Hey Brooklyn. Have a Bronx Cheer!


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