When you think of 'neighborhood' feels...usually Brooklyn over Queens? (neighborhoods, live)

[Tiger Beer]

Just thinking...when I think of neighborhood feels....usually I think of Brooklyn. Why is it that Queens doesn't seem to register as much in that way? Maybe because the ethnicies are more mixed in together? Or structure of the neighborhoods in some way? I don't know, but just thought I'd throw it out there for discussion...

[overdose]

maybe cuz of the way its sectioned. The sections of queens are called "towns" (at least thats what I've been told) and those towns are really big. Example: Flushings. Or, it could be you need to cahnge your way of thinking because most Queens residents are closely identified with their neighborhoods.

[jcoltrane]

Probaly because Brooklyn is older and the neighborhoods more established than those in Queens. Also that much of Queens is suburbanized and relatively young. Certain of the older and more urbanized areas have as much neighborhood identity as those in Brooklyn.

[twist07]

Queens is more spread out, and alot of neighborhoods don't have clear borders or boundaries, like you don't know where one ends and the other begins. For me everything from Sunnyside to Corona seems like a blur, Jackson Heights, Corona, Woodside, Elmhurst and East Elmhurst etc...But as far as Brooklyn goes the enclaves are clearly defined and each neighborhood may have its specific neighborhood establishments and because the way the streets are laid out they have clearly defined boundaries (though sometimes debatable). Other tangible things about Brooklyn is the fact that different neighborhoods have different architecture, like brownstones are synonymous with Brooklyn and really attributed to the whole "stoop" culture. Thats just my take on it...

[queensgrl]

Hmm ... I consider Queens to have more of a neighborhood feel. I know where every neighborhood begins and ends -- prob because I've lived here as an adult for 20+ years and I enjoyed reading Hagstrom maps. Gentrification in Bklyn has made boundaries very fuzzy. I used to know what every neighborhood was what but not anymore. They have even created new neighborhood names in Bklyn to erase the past.

[Infamous92]

No I think Queens is more neighborhood oriented, there's such a wide diversity of neighborhoods from upscale suburban, to urban and gritty, to beachy, to high rise, to low rise urban, to suburban, to desolate, etc.