Hrag Vartanian

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Everyone Wants to Be Brooklyn

July 8, 2008 by hv

The Brooklyn brand keeps growing…it’s kind of freaky and I for some strange reason came across five separate ‘brooklyns’ so I thought I’d make a list and include a few others I could remember:

  • Oakland, CA is Brooklyn West (though Oakland…according to Wiki…really did once have a ‘hood called Brooklyn);
  • but wait…Katy Perry (of “Kissed a Girl” fame) was quoted recently as saying, “I live in Los Feliz, which is basically the Williamsburg, Brooklyn of California.”
  • Japanese kids are Bedford Ave obsessed;
  • Staten Island’s St. George neighborhood is dying to be Williamsburg II;
  • the Toronto borough of Scarborough, according to one Toronto columnist, claims that his city’s borough of Scarborough is the Brooklyn of Canada, while a Montrealer suggests his city is;
  • one blogger thinks Tel Aviv is the Brooklyn of Israel;
  • another thinks Wales is the Brooklyn of Britain;
  • one American in France writes that Marseilles is the Brooklyn of France;
  • a Queens housing development in Jackson Heights is hailing itself as the new Brooklyn;
  • Philly wants to looks like Brooklyn; and
  • let’s not start about pizza…I mean there’s even a tour here!

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Filed Under: American, Brooklyn, New York, pop culture

Comments

  1. Paul says

    July 9, 2008 at 6:34 am

    Ha. Don’t believe the hype. I can’t verify the veracity of most of these, but take it from me, Wales is NOT the Brooklyn of Britain.
    However, Broadway Market almost certainly is the Bedford Avenue of Hackney.

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