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I can not argue with a single selection. On the Internet. Posted by n0rmalize
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This is why I avoid 80th and 81st St. Posted by El Guapo
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This list was obviously compiled by a bunch of williamsburg residents. Posted by sunstroked
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Yeah. Williamsburg is not the totality of Brooklyn. Posted by ZachDionne
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#29: Argyle Road between Beverley and Cortelyou - Best Block for pretending it's the 1870s. Fact is, none of these houses were built until 1901. Posted by JuneCleaved
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@JuneCleaved This is true. But I would submit the architecture is looking back rather than forward— hence the Victorian vibe... Posted by Jonny Diamond
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Great list... but in agreement with everyone else who thinks it is way too Billyburg heavy. Posted by Regs
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@Jonny Diamond How 'bout plain old 1900. Some of those Argyle Road houses are actually a little forward looking for the High Victorian era. Posted by JuneCleaved
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@JuneCleaved How about 1895? Oh what a year that was... Posted by Jonny Diamond
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As for #29, shouldn't the word 'pretending' in the heading count for something in these guardedly revisionist stabs at architectural history? Said block isn't dubbed 'Best Block for Canonically...
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The people who write and read this magazine live in just 3 neighborhoods and seem to huddle only in the safe centers of them, with the occasional 'dangerous' jaunt to an underground party or on a...
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@originalbklynhipster-- Amen! I'd argue that some of the best blocks to live in are in Midwood or Manhattan Beach, some great dive bars are on Gerritsen Avenue, more diversity on Coney Island Ave than...
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lol - thank goodness the bankers are moving into williamsburg... we will add class and maybe even a decent place to eat Posted by fatcat
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The $1700 dollars, post-college-pretentious-non-contributors pay for their closets in Williamsburg, could really be used in their hometowns in the Corn Belt. I suggest they start contributing to...
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these people move to brooklyn because of its "charm" and then proceed to change everything often resulting in making it unpalatable to several generational inhabitants their infusion/intrusion almost...
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A suggestion for a new category. "Greenest Street." Posted by peppertree5706
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#13: It's East 23rd Street, not 23rd Street and Place, not place (obviously just typos?) #24: The triangle's name, though most people seem not to know it, is Fowler Square. Posted by Anonymous
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Changes are happening don't know if it's for the best, but one thing I will always have in my memories is growing up there in the 1950s and 1960s where the neighborhood was like a family. But with...
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