Comments on: Some Yahoos Map Southern Brooklyn http://www.bksouthie.com/2009/11/some-yahoos-map-southern-brooklyn/ The South Brooklyn blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sheepshead Bay News Blog http://www.bksouthie.com/2009/11/some-yahoos-map-southern-brooklyn/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Sheepshead Bay News Blog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:04:52 +0000 http://www.bksouthie.com/?p=739#comment-165 Not surprising. It appears very few Brooklynites really know the borders of their neighborhoods, and even less so of other neighborhoods. And in New York City, the boundaries shift, old names fade away, and new ones pop up quicker than lightning (one of the papers did a story about this last week, quoting Gravesend's Joseph Ditta, who we interviewed here and discussed the history of his 'hood: http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2009/08/gravesent-brooklyn-joseph-ditta-intervie/ ). Some neighborhoods are just... I don't know - forgettable? If any of my readers see this, I'll be crucified, but I have to say Homecrest is a good example. It's been absorbed by Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park and Midwood. Just yesterday I was on Avenue U meeting with a potential advertisers. "Wait," he said. "Is this even Sheepshead Bay?"... "Well, technically it's Homecrest, but we cover it."... "Huh? What's Homecrest."... "Nevermind. It's Sheepshead Bay. We cover it." Still, there are actual agencies that keep records of "official" neighborhood delineations. Yahoo should've hit them up. It would've made the function way more useful. Now, on a side note in this already long comment, I've noticed sites like Chowhound and UrbanSpoon make nabes like Gravesend bigger than they are. Restaurants that are definitely in Sheepshead are labeled Gravesend. They'll make corrections if you point it out - but who has the time for that? Not surprising. It appears very few Brooklynites really know the borders of their neighborhoods, and even less so of other neighborhoods. And in New York City, the boundaries shift, old names fade away, and new ones pop up quicker than lightning (one of the papers did a story about this last week, quoting Gravesend’s Joseph Ditta, who we interviewed here and discussed the history of his ‘hood: http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2009/08/gravesent-brooklyn-joseph-ditta-intervie/ ).

Some neighborhoods are just… I don’t know – forgettable? If any of my readers see this, I’ll be crucified, but I have to say Homecrest is a good example. It’s been absorbed by Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park and Midwood. Just yesterday I was on Avenue U meeting with a potential advertisers. “Wait,” he said. “Is this even Sheepshead Bay?”… “Well, technically it’s Homecrest, but we cover it.”… “Huh? What’s Homecrest.”… “Nevermind. It’s Sheepshead Bay. We cover it.”

Still, there are actual agencies that keep records of “official” neighborhood delineations. Yahoo should’ve hit them up. It would’ve made the function way more useful.

Now, on a side note in this already long comment, I’ve noticed sites like Chowhound and UrbanSpoon make nabes like Gravesend bigger than they are. Restaurants that are definitely in Sheepshead are labeled Gravesend. They’ll make corrections if you point it out – but who has the time for that?

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