I remember when I first moved to Brooklyn — anything past the Bedford stop might as well have been Suffolk county, and once I memorized my path to and from the Atlantic/Pacific station, I dared venture almost nowhere else. It was silly and sad, really. And that’s why I’m not quite as damning as many online commenters toward poor Bonnie Lee, who wrote up some really terrible summations of her newly adopted borough’s ‘hoods for the Brooklyn Examiner. Not only were they plain wrong (no white people in Windsor Terrace?!), they also betrayed her own naivete and proved just how soaking wet she was behind her Brooklyn ears. Why was she writing this guide to the multifaceted county of Kings?
