>> Brooklyn, he said, is still “the coolest place on the planet.” >Does that include Brownsville and East New York? Most people who say that are neither from

>> Brooklyn, he said, is still “the coolest place on the planet.” >Does that include Brownsville and East New York? Most people who say that are neither from New York nor have ever been to either Brownsville or East New York, though they may have seen a documentary that described them (and continued to pretend that places like that don't exist in their sacred, hipster Brooklyn). Brooklyn is cool, don't get me wrong, but "the coolest place on the planet"? Surely not. You don't hear the sound of someone getting murdered by gunshots 1000 ft away from you while smoking a cigarette on the stoop in "the coolest place on the planet" (true story) (I'm not a native new yorker, but have lived here, in three of the boroughs, for 15 yrs)