Brooklyn: the Ugly Duckling Borough?

Before declaring it the place to be, some Brits color Brooklyn as the "dowdy sister; solely the route to JFK Airport; the Tooting of New York—where people live by necessity, and work to escape from;" and of course a place for pimps and mobsters. But that was all before celebrities moved there. [via Animal]

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Now of course it is Queens that gets all the dissing.

cant we just send the tourists to staten island? someone start a camapaign on how awesome that island is please.

NYC in a foeign publication, eh...

--Movie and actor reference, check

--The Mob, check

---Sarah J. Parker, check

Visiting Brits can find the real NYC in...

www.forgotten-ny.com

"Foreign," for the spelling nazis.

www.forgotten-ny.com

You could have copped out by saying you meant feign.

Does anyone really give a rat's ass what the Brits think of Brooklyn?

Good. Maybe this will keep some shallow tart or git away from here.

"Brooklyn is the route to JFK"? Yes, and Britain is the flyover state to the real Europe.

I thought JFK was in Queens. WTF

It is in Queens. I guess they're talking about taking the A train or a cab to JFK from lower Manhattan.

Hmmm, when I think of Europe I think of France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland *not* Britain.

'Nuff said.

Which is pretty much in sync with the opinion of some Britons who are convinced they live on a vast continent in the middle of the Atlantic far away from the wogs, frogs, despots, papists, and the Eurozone. Maybe it's an island thing.

As usual Queens is left out.

Meanwhile, in London's West End, another party of drunken revellers shits and pisses in the streets. Tra La La...

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