Manhattan V. Brooklyn: Ready, Steady, Go!

Overview of a Rivalry

Central Park. McCarron Park. Pianos. Pete’s Candy Store. Brooklyn Brewery. Heartland Brewery. Greenwich Village. Williamsburg. Park Slope stroller brigades. Park Avenue stroller brigades.  Cock those muskets. Start your engines. Swipe your Metrocards. You tell the world what’s so great about your Borough! (And what’s so lame about mine – but watch yourself – My island’s where the big ape swings…)

The problem is that Brooklyn used to be a city unto itself, and has never quite recovered from being integrated into Manhattan as a borough. I dated a born & raised Brooklynite and his family had a map of Brooklyn when it was a singular entity, and whenever the topic of Brooklyn as a city came up it was extremely easy to offend because real Brooklynites are still bitter. It’s like asking an adult to go and sit at the kiddie table for Christmas.
Can’t we just say they’re both great for different reasons?
Can’t we agree that there are too many hipsters in Williamsburg, and that the hipster is the lumbering, Mastodonic beast that won’t die, but needs to?
GOD I hate hipsters.
For that reason, New York City wins. Simply because Brooklyn is in fact awash with hipsters, whereas in NYC they sort of get lost in the flood of diversity.