…my friend Shallon sneered, “I didn’t move 3,000 miles across the country to tell people I live in Brooklyn.”

Looking down your nose at Brooklyn went out of style 15 years ago, Shallon. So did the Manhattanite’s guide to “hot” Brooklyn neighborhoods school of journalism.

More important question – who is the branding genius at the Greenpoint Hotel who didn’t research the history of … the Greenpoint Hotel? (As best I can tell, the new Greenpoint Hotel will be on West Street, in some part of the Greenpoint Terminal Market property. GTM was formerly the home of the American Manufacturing Co., which made rope and other nautical supplies.)