I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
I grew up in Brooklyn.
I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before it became gentrified. I lived on 120th St. between Fifth and Lenox Aves. in a little brownstone. I knew the neighborhood was changing when they started putting trees in the middle of the block.
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs.
A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.