Examination

[cannavaro91]

Hi everyone
I'm from Denmark and I'm going to the examination in English about New York. I have chosen to tell about Harlem and Brooklyn. I was wondering if anyone knows how hard the life in thee neighbours is. If you do, can you please write to me and tell how hard the life is.
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cannavaro91

[clubBR]

lol do your own homework

[ablarc]

have chosen to tell about Harlem and Brooklyn. I was wondering if anyone knows how hard the life in thee neighbours is.
Life in Brooklyn has been getting less hard for years, as more prosperous people have moved in. The same is now happening in Harlem.

http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6870

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[Punzie]

I know a hardship story that takes place in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

It's about a couple. Five years ago, they owned a house on Long Island near a huge mall. The owned an SUV and 2 sports cars.

When they moved to a 4-bedroom co-op in Clinton Hill, they had too many cars to manage. So they had to sell their SUV.

The co-op board would only give them one parking space in the garage. They had to park their other sports car on the street. The car received minor vandalism there, so they had to trade it in for an economy sedan.

Meanwhile, next door in Fort Greene, skyscrapers are being are being erected. The couple anticipates that soon there will be practically no parking spaces on the street. So they are putting their sedan up for sale next month. This only leaves them with one sports car to share... and it's almost six years old.

They tried to barbecue hotdogs on a charcoal grill on the balcony once, and the co-op board slapped them with a fine. They have to stick to the regulation gas grill.

The couple got fined again when they overstuffed a basement washing machine with their apartment's draperies. Also, the co-op board voted that their three Chihuahuas have to be neutered and wear muzzles in the elevators.

Their panoramic view on their 2 balconies on the 23rd floor just isn't the same as a suburban lawn. Truthfully, heights make them sick. So does commuting to Manhattan using mass transit.

To make matters worse, their co-op has quadrupled in market value since the time they moved in. If they sold their co-op, they could afford to buy a McMansion in the 'burbs with a pool, two new sports cars, an SUV, and a boat -- just like all their friends. They're falling behind in their circle of friends, who pity them as a pair of sad sacks.

[Schadenfrau]

Brooklyn's not a neighborhood- it's a borough that contains many different neighborhoods. Parts of Harlem are much different, as well.

[shocka]

lol do your own homework

Why when clearly the most realiable source for this data is a psuedo anonymous message board?

[lofter1]

Make sure you credit wny in your footnotes :p

[ablarc]

Why when clearly the most realiable source for this data is a psuedo anonymous message board?
He could come over from Denmark and investigate for himself.

[Schadenfrau]

Or he could go to the library and read a book, just like students have done since the dawning of formal education. I'd hope that regurgitating anything on this thread would be an instant fail.

[shocka]

Or he could go to the library and read a book, just like students have done since the dawning of formal education. I'd hope that regurgitating anything on this thread would be an instant fail.

I have a teacher friend who told me, in her 4th grade class, she had 3 students who had the exact same wrong information for a paper. She went home and googled the topic of the paper and it was the first search result.

[Punzie]

If you do, can you please write to me and tell how hard the life is.
Do you want us to write passages about New York which you would submit under your name, (which is cheating)?

Or do you want first-hand quotes from us for you to cite in your examination, (which is legitimate)?

[Stern]

I know a hardship story that takes place in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

It's about a couple. Five years ago, they owned a house on Long Island near a huge mall. The owned an SUV and 2 sports cars.

When they moved to a 4-bedroom co-op in Clinton Hill, they had too many cars to manage. So they had to sell their SUV.

The co-op board would only give them one parking space in the garage. They had to park their other sports car on the street. The car received minor vandalism there, so they had to trade it in for an economy sedan.

Meanwhile, next door in Fort Greene, skyscrapers are being are being erected. The couple anticipates that soon there will be practically no parking spaces on the street. So they are putting their sedan up for sale next month. This only leaves them with one sports car to share... and it's almost six years old.

They tried to barbecue hotdogs on a charcoal grill on the balcony once, and the co-op board slapped them with a fine. They have to stick to the regulation gas grill.

The couple got fined again when they overstuffed a basement washing machine with their apartment's draperies. Also, the co-op board voted that their three Chihuahuas have to be neutered and wear muzzles in the elevators.

Their panoramic view on their 2 balconies on the 23rd floor just isn't the same as a suburban lawn. Truthfully, heights make them sick. So does commuting to Manhattan using mass transit.

To make matters worse, their co-op has quadrupled in market value since the time they moved in. If they sold their co-op, they could afford to buy a McMansion in the 'burbs with a pool, two new sports cars, an SUV, and a boat -- just like all their friends. They're falling behind in their circle of friends, who pity them as a pair of sad sacks.

This is sarcasm right?

[Punzie]

... with some exagerration and a decidedly facetious bent.

Did I really have to tell you this?:rolleyes::p

[cannavaro91]

First of all
I will not cheat. I have been on the library and borrowed about three books.
I just asked you guys to get more information.
I have also been surfing about Harlem and Brooklyn on the internet, and by that I think that it will be more helpful if someone told me about his or her experiences, instead of statistics of books.
I am telling about the difficulty of living in Harlem and Brooklyn, so anyone from those suburbs has a better story than books.
Thank you all for respondinghttp://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif
to CLUBBR: I am doing my own homework!!!http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/images/icons/icon8.gif

[Schadenfrau]

Harlem and Brooklyn aren't suburbs- they're New York City. And like I said before, they're very large places where life isn't always as difficult as you seem to think.