Do you really live in Brooklyn? 19 ways you know you truly live in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Bridge, which you might see sometimes if you live in Brooklyn! via Flickr user David Papworth
Brooklyn! Everyone wants to live here these days, but how can you be sure you really live here? If you’ve experienced any of these things that only a true Brooklynite has, you know that you definitely do!
1. Your license says “Brooklyn” in the space where the city goes
via Flickr user luismontanez
2. When you leave Manhattan to go home, you take a train marked “Brooklyn”
via Flickr user Gane
3. When filling out forms, you put “Brooklyn” in the town box
via Flickr user Bernt Rostad
4. Or, you put “Kings” if the form asks what county you live in
via Flickr user Salim Virji
5. If someone asks you “Hey, do you live in Manhattan?” you say “No, I live in Brooklyn.”
Photo via Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
6. When people at a concert say “It’s nice to be here in Brooklyn,” sometimes you clap
via Flickr user exilism
7. You are eligible to vote for Brooklyn borough president
via Flickr user Shanti
8. When people ask, “Which Whole Foods is in your borough, the SoHo one or the Brooklyn one?” You say “The Brooklyn one”
via Flickr user Will Hedington
9. The geographic location of you home on a GPS system shows you to be east of Manhattan and Staten Island, and west and south of Queens (except for Rockaway, which you are north of)
via Flickr user Burkhard Schmidt
10. When a friend says “My friend is moving to Brooklyn, you live there, right? Do you know anything about it you can share with them?” You respond: “Yes”
via Flickr user Baptiste Pons
11. When you see a news story about something happening on or near the block you live on, the block is in Brooklyn
via Flickr user Loic Lagarde
12. Your area code is 718, and you don’t live in Queens or Staten Island. Unless you’re still on your parents’ family plan, in which case never mind
via Flickr user Clement Belleudy
13. When people say “the park” you immediately think they mean Prospect Park, because that’s the closest park to you
via Flickr user Will Marlow
14. You read Brokelyn dot com to find things to do in the borough in which you live
via Flickr user Ludovic Berton
15. If someone asks where you live, you say “Brooklyn.”
via Flickr user David Wilson
16. When you log on to weather dot com and put in Brooklyn, you get mad that it gives you the weather for Brooklyn, Ohio because that is not the Brooklyn where you live
via Flickr user Kevin Christopher Burke
17. The bus line you take to get home is identified by B[NUMBER]
via Flickr user Aliane
18. When you step out the front door of your house in the morning, you are standing on a piece of land that is legally part of Brooklyn
via Flickr user Ed Costello
19. When people you know see Brooklyn locations in TV or movies, they ask you “Hey, do you live near that? That’s in Brooklyn” or “Have you been there before? That’s in Brooklyn”
I guess it's cool to live in Brooklyn or something
oh my god. i appreciate this so much.
it's like every dumb "true brooklynite/new yorker" list is about yuppies, transplants, white people, and/or jaded cynics.
If you can expand this into a five minute bit, I've got an open mic slot with your name on it.
Pretty unfunny, even for satire
if you think this is the best thing ever you are the worst thing ever
is the Bronx not 718 anymore?
Ah, there's that dry Brooklyn wit we all know and love so much!
i know i live in brooklyn because when anyone includes photos of my hometown borough, they only include the bridge, as though thats the only thing to see in the world's greatest borough.
some other ideas
-grand army plaza
- promenade
- museum
- botanic gardens
- coney island
- sheapshead bay
- flatbush avenue
- eastern parkway
- ocean parkway
- kensington
- brooklyn college
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19 ways you make buzzfeed look impressive.
I guess it's cool to live in Brooklyn or something
oh my god. i appreciate this so much.
it's like every dumb "true brooklynite/new yorker" list is about yuppies, transplants, white people, and/or jaded cynics.
If you can expand this into a five minute bit, I've got an open mic slot with your name on it.
Pretty unfunny, even for satire
if you think this is the best thing ever you are the worst thing ever
is the Bronx not 718 anymore?
Ah, there's that dry Brooklyn wit we all know and love so much!
i know i live in brooklyn because when anyone includes photos of my hometown borough, they only include the bridge, as though thats the only thing to see in the world's greatest borough.
some other ideas
-grand army plaza
- promenade
- museum
- botanic gardens
- coney island
- sheapshead bay
- flatbush avenue
- eastern parkway
- ocean parkway
- kensington
- brooklyn college
This is simply brilliant.