Zooey Deschanel Stands Up For LA, Hates NYC Snot

Doesn't this random outrage every time someone insults NYC just prove her point that this city does indeed suck? If NYC is perfect, than we wouldn't give a shit about a truthful observation.

how difficult is to take the truth about NYC: totally filthy, and this is not only talking about tangibles.

YES, bring back the East Side/West Side rivalry! My hand signals are ready!!

l.a. is giant suburb. nyc is a city. some people are suburbanites at heart. some are not. and your snot wouldn't be so black, if you had to spend most of your time outside your home inside a car.

NYC needs more bike lanes-yeah that is the fix

all i want to say is that i would give it to zooey deschannel no fucking doubt. she is absolutely smoking.

Amen matty, that is really the issue. A cute & famous girl reopening this endless NYC/LA dispute is nothing new, but she is cute and we should stick to that.

Love is blind. I think all the people who truly love NYC are willing to overlook all of her faults and embrace everything that makes her special. And if other people don't like it, they can haul their mom-jean wearing, suburbanite asses back over the Hudson where they came from.

Like I said, keep drinking the Kool Aid.

God forbid wanting to change something about "her" (this city). So, let's play with your analogy here, shall we? You're with a gal and she's hot but doesn't really ever go down on you, but you like a little oral sex from time to time! So, instead of asking her to change her ways and maybe give you a little south action, you make excuses for your prude of a girlfriend because love is blind.

Or how about this one: your girlfriend is really hot, she's arty, awesome and all your friends seem to like her, but she farts a lot in public and on subways and during sex even. Love is blind, right? Overlook it, right? Don't ask her to clean up her farting, just deal with it, right?

I agree with Neckbeard, admit that the city isn't perfect. I bet that if you do, you might be able to change it therefor making it closer to perfect. I get so sick of this love is blind bullshit when it comes to this city.

Well I'm sick of people moving in trying to create another Seattle. Due to ill-conceived urban development theories in the mid-20th century, we're stuck with a population that is either too poor (read: powerless) to make a substantive change in infrastructure or environmental policies or is rich and detached to give a shit (they go to Hamptons when the smog gets to them). Evidence of this: we have a mayor that gets driven in a fucking SUV to the 59th street subway station.

And I don't know what Kool Aid you think I've been drinking. I lived in the Bronx in the 80s and 90s when things really sucked. So I know how bad it can get and how much better it is now. But I'm sure you know all about these since you're so ready to be outraged about the fucking cesspool we live in. Do us all a favor and skip down Santa Ana Boulevard at 3am with Zooey.

LA is a joke. Beverly Hills is about the size of 5 city blocks and Rodeo Drive is a strip mall. The air quality in LA has the consistency of pea soup. Face it, Except for Chicago and Philly they all wish they were NYC.

Today I passed countless McDonalds, 3 Chipotle Mexican Grills, 2 Best Buys, 1 Olive Garden and who knows how may Starbucks. Get over yourselves, NYC is not that special.

Too way people on Gothamist are know it all or feel elite because they live in New York City, while anything outside of NYC is in "alien land". No city is perfect and NY is dirty like any other city in America. If you want "clean" living move to the country; city life is dirty.

Please. If LAist ran an article everytime some elitist, transplanted New Yorker in the entertainment/media/art scene talked shit about LA or Hollywood, there wouldn't be anything else to write about.

One person says the city is dirty and everybody is up in arms?

Look, I moved to New York from my hometown of LA a while back and I love it here, but I think its time for New Yorkers to admit that 1. New York isn't perfect and 2. LA isn't as big of a shithole as you all seem to think it is (though it tends to be the transplants who talk shit about LA, most native New Yorkers seem to have a secret respect for it)

A comment from Jen Chung? Dear Jen, you rule and I always look forward to your posts.

i think the fact that the editor of gothamist posted in here shows that this article is important to them for some reason.

and i think part of the annoyance of the article doesnt have much to do with some airhead "actress"'s opinion of NYC...

... it has more to do with the fact that she's some airhead "actress" whose parents are both in show business and can probably attribute most of the little success she has to nepotism. Then again if you just googled a very large part of "celebrities" these days, you'd find that this is the case pretty often - try it.

... and maybe more to do with Gothamist doing two stories on her within a week, calling her a "friend of Gothamist", and the big questions as to why.

How does nepotism work for internet blogs? Does a person like Zoo-face help to ring in advertisers er sumthin? Is she dating some ad exec? There has to be a hook somewhere.

maybe it is just some BFF action

... or maybe there really aren't more interesting/important people to talk about or more important or interesting things going on in the world right now

I never heard of this Zoo person but sure as shit karma will come back on her when she tries to apply to get that coop apartment in NYC she always dreamed of in a few years.

“I think there are so many films that romanticize New York in that way"

which films? what way? huh?

How about Elf? Anything is possible in NYC: Will Ferrel finds his long lost father, helps save Santa from the evil Central Park Mounted Police and marries Zooey Deschanel.

Maybe because they are both Jewish?

Who the hell is "Zooey" Daschanel and who cares about her vacuous opinion?

Stay in LA and do us all a favor "Zooey."

I never heard of this bimbo actress till now. Had to ruin it for me.

If I cared what her snot looks like, I would have given her that $20 back in the day...

Being that this woman clearly has never stepped into the sun ... why are we to care about her opinion ??

I'll take my subway filled city over the traffic nightmare that is LA any day of the year.

Who cares what some talentless, vacuous "actress" whose only mode of expression is blank, doe-eyed stares thinks?

Never, ever insult NYC!! Doing so is like the time J. Depp called America a puppy. Off with her head!!

NYers need to believe that this city is perfect or the level of rage will rise even higher and all hell will break loose.

The Kool Aid they serve in both LA and NY is equally as strong, however.

every city is dirty, get over it. doesn't LA have worse pollution and smog than NYC?

there bitch, we win.

Saying LA is better than NY is like saying the smell of shit is better than the smell of piss

I'm more concerned about stepping on the former than the later. Aren't you?

I'll say this much: NYC snot is like pure snow compared to Beijing snot, which is soot black (Beijing eye boogers are also black).

Well, it's not like she's wrong. This city, & many, many of its people, are filthy & disgusting. Blowing their noses by pressing against the side & letting the snot spurt out onto the ground? Clipping toenails on the subway? Saw both of those things today in the span of of about 30 minutes. Doesn't say a lot about this cesspool.

NO ONE CARED ABOUT "THE FRIEND OF GOTHAMIST" STORY THAT WAS DONE A WEEK AGO. AND NO ONE CARES NOW.

Chances are there will be another story next week about how she was misquoted or someshit. Why is Gothamist shoving this twat down our throats?

Spare us your phony outrage.

thank you, zooeydeschanel's publicist

" It’s dirty, and if you blow your nose, there’s dirt coming out.” ...And when you blow your nose in LA, cocaine comes out.