The Times sort of has a thing for declaring places "The New Brooklyn" or "The Next Williamsburg" or "The Bushwick of Kuala Lumpur" etc. and people have started to take notice. Including, now, the Times. "[R]eally—is the allure of Cape Town best measured by its resemblance to Williamsburg?" Standards editor Philip B. Corbett writes. "[L]et's think twice the next time we're tempted to declare someplace the new Red Hook." Easy to say now, but just wait until somebody opens a bakery in Cincinnati. [NYT; previously]
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