The neighborhood X/Y game
I can't get some marvelous reportage in the Globe the other day out of my head. In his story about the North End's flaming manholes of death, reporter Michael Naughton brilliantly described the area:
The neighborhood, which is popular with tourists looking for an Italian meal, is also home to a number of college students.
Why can't we do that for every other neighborhood and town in the area?
Allston/Brighton: The neighborhood, which is popular with motorists cutting through to Newton, is also home to a number of college students.
Roslindale: The neighborhood, which is popular with tourists getting lost on the way to the Arboretum, is also home to a number of Albanians.
So what other "The neighborhood, which is popular with X, is also home to a number of Y" constructions can we think of? If you guys come up with enough, we could forward to the Globe city desk for use in all future stories they write with the assumption readers need help with local neighborhoods.
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Brookline ...
which is popular with wandering Jews looking for a good bagel, is also home to a number of aggressive wild turkeys.
Arlington ...
which is popular with bicyclists and rollerbladers, is also home to a number of soccer moms.
The Fenway
which was formerly popular among institutions with agressive expansion plans, is now "home" to very few permanent residents.
Morrissey Boulevard, Across from Boston College High School
The neighborhood, which is popular with young Globe reporters
desperately poring over copies of "Boston's Neighborhoods for Idiots",
is also the workplace for a number of former New York
Times executives.
North Allston
North Allston, which is popular with Harvard's many property acquisition companies, is also home to a number of families who seem to like living there.
Central Square
which is popular with crackheads looking for handouts, is also home to a number of foreign Harvard graduate students.
Harvard Square
which is popular with Japanese tourists and suburban teenagers looking for street cred, is also home to a number of professional panhandlers.
Davis Square
Which is popular with college students and middle-age hipsters with kids, is also home to Somerville's only mass-transit stop.
South Boston...
Which is popular with people of Hispanic descent from Lawrence Massachusetts, is also home to a pissed off twenties professional who had his car stolen on a Monday night.
South End
South End: The neighborhood, which is popular with jaywalking moms pushing baby strollers, is also home to a number of fine restaurants.
The South End
The neighborhood, which is popular with commuters cutting through the neighborhood on their way to the Southeast Expressway, is also home to many flaming manholes.
flaming manholes? Isn't that the North End?
LOL
Way over your head LOL...and a bit inappropriate!
I shouldn't be laughing, but I am
Well played, politically incorrect South Ender, well played.
Jamaica Plain, which is
Jamaica Plain, which is popular with ladies looking for other ladies, is also home to a number of street thugs and some yuppies.
Watertown...
The suburb, which is popular with locals looking for Armenian groceries and decent riverside bike paths, is also home to a number of college students.
SoWa...
...which is popular with real estate sharpers trolling for yupster cash, is also home to a number of bums.