Comments on The Invisible District of Brooklyn In Seattle
Brooklyn Avenue Northeast, bitches!
Represent!!
Legend has it when the early white settlers started envisioning a city in West Seattle, they named the place "New York Alki", and that Alki is Chinook for "eventually", or "by and by". Hence Brooklyn to continue the theme.
Central Park and Seattle!
Maybe they should have started work on a subway back then, too.
Heck, they built an elevated rail system and a monorail, but you Big Talk No Action people killed those ...
Oh, and it's not well known, but after my dad got out of the USAF, I was a New Yorker until I was 2.
When Moore laid out his plat, Brooklyn was not a "district" of New York but a separate city, the third-largest in the United States.
Many cities have a neighborhood named Brooklyn east across a body of water, including in Los Angeles (east over the L.A. river) and Oakland (east over Lake Merritt.)
Many cities have a neighborhood named Brooklyn east across a body of water, including in Los Angeles (east over the L.A. river) and Oakland (east over Lake Merritt.)
Hm.
Anyway, when I read the above mentioned article and two other really great ones in this week's Stranger by a certain writer, I noticed myself saying a little prayer I'd mumbled before on a few Wednesdays:
"Jen Graves, please don't ever leave The Stranger."
I like authors and columnists who are thoughtful and invested in seemingly every paragraph and subject. Don't stop writing about art. Art needs the dialogue. You make your world better.
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