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The Vickys: can you be paternalist without being patronising?

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In praise of Brooklyn

by | May 18, 2012

This is a bit of a diversion from the normal Global Dashboard diet, but as a Brooklyn resident I cannot help reproducing parts of a sterling defense of NYC's better borough from 1946, dredged up by the Paris Review: Walt Whitman described Brooklyn as “the city of...