Where Brooklyn At? It's Southeast Of The Second-Best Borough In NYC, By Andrew Zimmer Andrew currently calls Williamsburg home, and, although all his friends and his job are in Manhattan, even that is not enough to fight the pull of an apartment across the street from a place where they make all their sandwiches out of waffles.- Brooklyn has fewer tourists, and fewer people walking incredibly slow on the sidewalks who will think you're mean because you accidentally brushed against their Hollister bag.
- Manhattan restaurants "import" products from Brooklyn, then brag about it.
- The Knicks are a perennial disappointment. The Nets may not be world-beaters either, but at least everyone can agree they have way better hats.
- Maybe not by as much as it used to be, but the rent is still lower.
- There's a significantly smaller influx of New Jersyians on the weekends; it's basically impossible to get to Brooklyn from Hoboken.
- Literally every single bar and restaurant in Brooklyn has some sort of outdoor space; in Manhattan, the second any place with a rooftop opens, it's flooded with a million dudes sweating through their rumpled Men's Warehouse suits who don't even like the way they look, despite the guarantee.
- All of the people that make all of your restaurants and bars cool -- despite the lack of outdoor space! -- live in Brooklyn.
- There's less constant, grating construction. If your Manhattan apartment or office building didn't have scaffolding around it when you started reading this sentence, it does now.
- You can't even see your own skyline, which is admittedly amazing.
- You don't have any slogans when you depart Manhattan as cool as: "Leaving Brooklyn. Oy vey!"
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