Comments on: I (Heart) Brooklyn

By: Angelina

Angelina — Fri, 12 May 2006 19:06:00 +0000

I AM B&T AND I FUCKING LOVE IT. Anyone want to step outside and have words?
Besides, everyone who's anyone knows that Manhattan is the new New Jersey, duh.

By: Poodith

Poodith — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:47:00 +0000

I love Wikipedia but it is sometimes wrong. As a matter of fact, just last week we had to correct some errors on the Guilford Railroad page.

Train geekery aside, perhaps you should edit the Wiki and exempt Brooklyn from the Bridge and Tunnel definition and see if public consensus occurs.

Being a Country Mouse I don't really know who's correct here. To satisfy my own curiousities, I do have an email in to 11 year Lower East Side Veteran KerriBlack for an expert testimony on B&T eligibility.

By: Adrianna

Adrianna — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:32:00 +0000

People are much more civilized in Brooklyn… and the restaurants are better. You’ll love it!

By: Jennie SMASH!

Jennie SMASH! — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:05:00 +0000

From Wikipedia:

The earliest known instance of this phrase in print is below.

December 13, 1977 edition of the New York Times, pg. 83:

"On the weekends, we get all the bridge and tunnel people who try to get in," he said.

Elizabeth Fondaras, a pillar of the city’s conservative social scene, who has just told Steve Rubell she had never tried to get into Studio 54 for fear of being rejected, asked who the bridge and tunnel people were.

"Those people from Queens and Staten Island and those places," he said.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 May 2006 13:55:00 +0000

Bridge and Tunnel "...used by residents of Manhattan to refer to the large amount of people who commute into the borough from the nearby area..."

By: Jennie SMASH!

Jennie SMASH! — Fri, 12 May 2006 13:31:00 +0000

Good lord, anonymous, try not to be so nakedly jealous. And ignorant, come to think of it. No one who actually lives in New York thinks Brooklyn is B&T.

By: Drunken Mouse

Drunken Mouse — Fri, 12 May 2006 11:45:00 +0000

WHAT THE FUCK?! Are you serious?! Dood, that is bullshit! You should not pay them the last month's rent just for endangering your person.

Angelina: Stop hatin' Dead Sty.

And B&T commmenter. Brooklyn has never been part of that ilk except in the mind of delusional Sex in the City wannabes, who aren't from NYC anyway and share more in common with the Jersey, Staten Island, Long Islanders that trek into our city to be the butt of real New Yorkers barbed wit, judged against our standards of style and tasteful behavior.

When were open shirts and spikey, gelled white-boy fades in style? Never.

SMASH is more NYC than people who have lived here for years!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 May 2006 06:50:00 +0000

Wow, not even a year and Manhattan has already spit out Smash like a watermellon seed. Now that you are relegated to the ranks of the Bridge and Tunnel crowd, I guess it will be harder to make derogatory New Jersey comments stick.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 May 2006 17:44:00 +0000

Yes, no post is complete without a reference to bum crap.

By: angelina

angelina — Wed, 10 May 2006 17:08:00 +0000

POSH SLOPE?

Well, la dee fucking da!