New York Times journalists “now seem to be using Brooklyn as the measuring stick or point of comparison for everywhere,” Times Standards Editor Philip B. Corbett writes.
Times stories have likened a Queens neighborhood and Cape Town, South Africa, to Brooklyn recently, and Corbett links to an Atlantic story by Bourree Lam that lists a lot of instances of the crutch.
“[L]et’s think twice the next time we’re tempted to declare someplace the new Red Hook,” Corbett writes.
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