best borough of nyc

No Connecticut, no cred.

whichever one has girls

None of them do. There are only vultures, carrion, and desolate whispers.

New jersey

voted manhattan, suck it marty markowitz

Brooklyn in 1999

^^^ otm

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the sixth borough (a/k/a Hudson County, NJ):

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Voted Queens but basically anywhere that isn't Brooklyn.

off to the armpit of Staten I w/ you

brooklyn backlash official for 2012

Man, I hated Brooklyn from 1993 to 1997, I was so ahead of the whole Brooklyn hating curve that all those hipsters are just getting into now.

I bet you'd like different parts of it better!

what was wrong with it, too affordable?

my first exposure to Brooklyn was 1996; it basically represented my platonic ideal of what A City should be and one of my biggest personal regrets is that I never pulled my shit together enough to find work in NYC and move there

I lived in Queens, then, which was just infinitely superior. And also cheaper.

I guess outside of random trips with my family that I don't remember to visit old family friends, I probably first hung out in Brooklyn in like 2000? 2001? I had a few friends who were ahead of me in school and moved to Williamsburg and Park Slope, and not long after that I started playing shows at various crappy Williamsburg venues. TBH I didn't like Williamsburg at all back then and still don't even though I live there now. It used to look like something from an apocalyptic video game. Now it still does but with ugly oversized condo buildings arbitrarily placed hither and thither.

voting Manhattan cause I've lived here for so long (and living here for so long is how I can afford Manhattan)

you're sort of obligated to vote for your home boro, no?

i don't hate brooklyn but i voted for QUEENS cuz it has the best food.

Hartford tbh

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I was hoping this would start a brooklyn vs manhattan war but nobody lives in manhattan anymore

It used to look like something from an apocalyptic video game. Now it still does but with ugly oversized condo buildings arbitrarily placed hither and thither.

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hah

anyone dare me to summon alex in nyc

plz

voting manhattan for height

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curious

hahaha

queensers always on the internets

eff u

Ridiculous challopsing itp

staten island challopers know how its done

God dammit i was going to do this.

I complained about new york a lot last year, but every night i can’t help from staring at the skyline from the (uninsulated, drafty) window of my (tiny) bedroom. There is real sublimity to manhattan. I feel line one would have to be very insensitive to not be moved (at some level) by such a dense concentration of humanity.

The answer is brooklyn though. Brooklyn is the best borough by far.

I was hoping this would start a brooklyn vs manhattan war but nobody lives in manhattan anymore

Queens is sooooo much better than Brooklyn.

queens brooklyn manhattan the bronx staten island

agreed, though there are times when manhattan pushes back past brooklyn.

I've been in queens for 8 years now and really like it, but sometimes I feel a little challopsy saying it's "better than brooklyn." I mean it's certainly better than brooklyn for me, a dad who wants to be able to afford to live somewhere that has a decent school, and obviously there is tons of awesome shit about queens that I could spend paragraphs raving about, but if I had brooklyn money I might still live in brooklyn

queens, manhattan, brooklyn, bronx>>>>>>>>Staten Island.

I mean, let's face it, there is some stuff about queens that kind of sucks. Queens Boulevard is horrible. Many neighborhoods are badly laid out and have ugly buildings. Many neighborhoods are underserved by transit. We have a lot of shitty chain-restaurants and half-assed malls. Maybe some of those things are true in some parts of brooklyn as well, but there is a big chunk of brooklyn that is not like that.

queens 12

otm

manhattan 11

christ, fuck no, not even in 2012

i've lived in astoria for almost ten years and fuck yeah it's better than brooklyn

Many neighborhoods are badly laid out and have ugly buildings. Many neighborhoods are underserved by transit. We have a lot of shitty chain-restaurants and half-assed malls.

In short, parts of Queens want to be the suburbs. Parts of Brooklyn do, too, but they still have better train service and no massive redevelopment projects to make the environment out of scale. In lieu of malls, they just doubled down on the SUVs and Blue Lives Matter bumper stickers.

most people mean north of prospect park brooklyn when they say brooklyn and west of flushing meadows queens when they say queens. I think that's fine as a convention, both boroughs have multiple identities and it's hard to make any sort of claim that encompasses both long island city and howard beach. (whereas 90% of manhattan is the same neighborhood)

I need a new 1987-cheap boro

my situation in brooklyn is so unreasonably fortuitous that if it ended i'd probably just leave nyc or even america

queens sounds amazing, for people who go outside and do and (especially) eat things. i am proud to live near queens; less so staten island

I'll have to vote for Queens first because I live here, Brooklyn second because I like to go out there (but mostly North Brooklyn, especially Greenpoint because that is the easiest to get to for me), third Manhattan because that's where I see movies sometimes, fourth the Bronx that I almost never make it to but I suspect has a lot of great things in it (excepting Yankee Stadium), and fifth Staten Island because of course. Withstanding my personal preference, I do believe that Manhattan is still the star and the other boroughs satellites, though Brooklyn has so much cultural cred now than it did say 20 years ago. I think that Brooklyn is the aspirational borough, Queens is the attainable borough, and Manhattan is the borough that no one that I know seems to live in anymore.

queen's

who the heck was that staten island support coming from does anyone on ilx even live there

Staten Island would be fine if it was unpopulated.

https://queenseagle.com/all/2019/12/19/queens-man-impeached

now i want to make staten island happen.

i have a distant cousin who claims to live in the st george neighborhood of staten island and claims that it is cool.

who the heck was that staten island support coming from does anyone on ilx even live there

maybe the Wu-Tang Clan lurks

SI has some stuff to recommend it. Good Sri Lankan restaurants. A restaurant where the cooks are always an Italian grandma and a grandma from another region of the world.