The original poster then suggested that people who have kids should move to Long Island. Later, someone else opined that dog owners should move to Long Island. (No one from Long Island has weighed in yet.)
The joke is on all of them – they do live on Long Island.
According to the New York Post, in order to separate from the confusion of being mistaken with Long Island, officials and business leaders are looking to change the name of Long Island City to the “trendier “abbreviation “LIC.”
Maybe part of the reason it is confused with Long Island is because it is part of Long Island. It has been since “L.I.C.” was founded as an independent city in 1870.
Right up my alley:
While we all love jumping on the poor guy who tries to annex McCarren Park for Williamsburg, the truth of the matter is that neighborhoods grow and contract like families and are based on common consensus rather than the legal boundaries that govern more exact areas such as congressional districts and zip codes. So, we’re going to hit you all up for a little consensus.
(P.S. – a little less than a third of McCarren Park is in Williamsburg.)
Kevin Walsh takes a close look at long-gone streets in Greenpoint. A bunch of these streets never existed other than on a map (certainly the little streets northwest of Commercial, and probably the streets between Manhattan Avenue and Whale Creek).
No explanation for the two Meseroles, though.
The heat must be getting to the Brooklyn Paper:
Yep, that was Don Draper taking in the summer breeze from one of the best places around — a Williamsburg stoop.
Technically, it was Jon Hamm, who was not filming for Mad Men. And the stoop was at 365 Grand Avenue (at Gates), which most Brooklynites know is not in Williamsburg (that would be Grand Street).
Don Draper, being a Manhattanite, probably wouldn’t know the difference. But you’d think the Brooklyn Paper would.
This Neil Smith? I guess I have to take him seriously.
(Hopefully I’ll more to say on the whole article later.)
