Wow, don't know that bar in Flatbush where only non-whites go, however, been to a couple of mostly white bars on the upper east side that have been pretty dangerous with the white preppy boys who can't handle their drink...seriously, if you're stupid, reckless and walk around scared cause you're "not in your area" or jump every time a non-white person passes you by too closely, you will get your ass kicked, probably not so much cause you are white, but because you look like an easy target. Generalizations are dangerous, so laugh at the "funny", but also learn from it.

Some of you are missing the point- this isn't about the places that are "safe" for white people to move, this is about how to keep white folk from GENTRIFYING the rest of brooklyn and queens. this is indeed about race, but this is not racist. it is honest and truthful satire.

So as a "true NYer" you would have no problem strolling around 145th and Lenox after midnight, hanging out in East New York, buying a round of beers in Flatbush? Just stop it. There are neighborhoods where white people feel uncomfortable because they're not welcome, it's a fact; if you are a "true NYer" you would know this.

Funny (?)...whatever, I'm glad that Washington Heights is still not recognized as "white" although it's become pretty gentrified. I'm all for stopping the map there...as for "places to find 'reasonable rent'...really? Upper West Side, "reasonable"? I guess if you're into paying $2500 for a closet. This is def not a New Yorker's subway map, a true NYer goes anywhere, anytime, and can mingle and hang with the worst and best of them....Loser. Honestly, if this is "your" New York, you are seriously missing out, maybe a place like Madison, WI would suit you best.

Funny (?)...whatever, I'm glad that Washington Heights is still not recognized as "white" although it's become pretty gentrified. I'm all for stopping the map there...as for "places to find 'reasonable rent'...really? Upper West Side, "reasonable"? I guess if you're into paying $2500 for a closet. This is def not a New Yorker's subway map, a true NYer goes anywhere, anytime, and can mingle and hang with the worst and best of them....Loser. Honestly, if this is "your" New York, you are seriously missing out, maybe a place like Madison, WI would suit you best.

Now, I'm no expert, but I don't think Bay Ridge was ever that Italian.

By Politburo

[76] | 01/14/08 01:17PM

HAHAHA really, though? Starting a blog will solve my disgust with what passes as journalism in the digital ether? At last I checked, this was a news blog and honey, this article ain't news. I guess i'll never understand why this drivel passes muster as being important. Everyone else's articles posted on Gothamist aren't pulled from the ass end of other blogs. They're actually doing work!

And if you read my statement carefully, I did NOT say that Gothamist has singlehandedly ruined journalism. Now THAT would be a ridiculous claim.

MAP OF HIS MIND

This puke guy

An obvious flipee

Has left out

Mississippi.

"i'm bored of hearing about the white and priveliged ad naseum. who the FUCK cares?! Blogging such as this has ruined journalism for people who care about their communities and the world outside of Williamsburg."

What a fuckin joke. If you are so bored, stop coming here and start your own blog. That's the magic of the internet. People mindlessly bitching or making ridiculous claims like 'this blog has ruined journalism' is the unfortunate downside.

"Jennifer breathes in the stuff that makes New York unique"

And racist and divided and scared.

She probably closes her eyes as her New Haven line train goes through Harlem and the Bronx when she visits mommie and daddy.

What bullshit. I'm white and my stop ain't on there. Another asshipster trying to divide people.

Transplanted twenty-something hipsters are boroughphobes. Their reality comes from Freinds and Seinfeld.

Obviously it's a fairly decent article if we're going by the metrics people use to determine the validity of online media: reads, comments and recommends. If nothing else, it makes for interesting discussion material and is humorous as well.

Who gives a shit about some hipster transplants stupid map? Only another transplant like Jen Carlson.

why are you idiots blaming Jen? you should be thanking her for bringing it to your attention. if you're really that outraged about this silly little map, then go yell at the guy who made it, you big babies: "whaaaa, my stop isn't on the map. whaaaaa, a post on gothamist is actually about nyc. whaaaa, hipsters don't visit my neighborhood & drive the rents up."

seriously, you guys need to stfu & gbtw.

C'mon now, Jen C 's a nice girl. She's not as creepy as her pic would indicate.

Cut her some slack would ya? By the looks of her, I would say she's on lithium and Zoloft. God knows what would happen if she got her feelings hurt!

and privileged. wouldn't want to be typed at for poor spelling.

ahem, nauseum.

Jen Carlson loves to "write" (about) boring stories about boring white people—their bands, their clothes, their love affairs, their extracurricular activities, and now this idiocy. Yes, i have a sense of humor, but wow, i'm bored of hearing about the white and priveliged ad naseum. who the FUCK cares?! Blogging such as this has ruined journalism for people who care about their communities and the world outside of Williamsburg.

I guess there's a distinction between white and white trash, perhaps? In that case, this map certainly makes sense. Note that the Giuliani constituency would fall in the latter category as the map seems to indicate.

Hmmm...."white trash"?