Brooklyn's Top Five Most Precious Neighborhoods
Many sections and residents of Brooklyn resemble life-sized Cuteoverload moments, except more annoying and even more precious. The Times Real Estate section recently visited Samantha and Jordan Green and their two little 'uns, Duncan and Reeve. They were Los Angeles transplants to Park Slope who became lost in the sea of preciousness that is their new home. And so they moved to Windsor Terrace.
Windsor Terrace is apparently a slightly less precious land—in the words of Mrs. Green, "a little more real."
To preempt any more confusion and feelings of less-thanosity among Brooklyn newcomers, we're formally petitioning for the creation of the Brooklyn Preciousness District, comprising of Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Windsor Terrace, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. To create the district, we've cross-indexed anecdotal samplings of the number of yoga centers, free-trade coffee shops, weekend yard sales, little girl lemonade stands, New Balance sneakers, NPR tote bags, and army-green bugaboos.
Our rankings:
1. Park Slope
Represented here with puppy and baby, it represents the apotheosis of preciousness.
2. Windsor Terrace
Represented graphically by Husky McHuskisons, a little less precious and a little more "real." Still, highly dangerous—yoga ever more prevalent.
3. Boerum HIll and Carroll Gardens are tied for third place. Carroll Gardens is burdened with a current rise in "young fashions," while Boerum Hill suffers from artsy magazine publishers and actor-writers.
4. Cobble Hill, not yet graduated into the realms of preciousness of pups and kittehs, is repped by a wittle bunny. —Josh