TomBellino posted of an image of a section of Los Angeles County with crudely drawn circles separating the đô thị into supposed equivalents of new york City’s five boroughs.
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It placed “Staten Island” over the West Valley, “Queens” over the central and east Valley và Burbank, “Manhattan” on đứng đầu of everthing between Santa Monica to lớn downtown, “Brooklyn” of course became Los Feliz to Northeast L.A., & the Bronx was all of South L.A.
The caption on the post reads “*braces for dragging.*” và dragged he was.
In two days, the image got 2.7K retweets và 20K favorites, and was still skyrocketing until Tom Bellino deleted it. A small ratio of users applauded the New York-overlay maps of L.A., but Bellino mostly faced ridicule and shade from L.A. Natives and lifetimers, who mocked the image as yet another on a long list of embarrassing and inaccurate cultural statements about Southern California from arrogant East Coasters.
After deleting the image, Bellino wrote on Twitter: “Reading the replies to this, I see that a lot of people were angered & hurt by it. I am truly very sorry for being cavalier about something lượt thích this that could be representative of segregation, redlining, etc.,” he said. “That was not at all my intention in making it.”
In an interview Tuesday evening, Bellino told L.A. Taco that the contentious drawing came from a place of “being sick on his couch after spending a lot of the weekend in the Valley.” Bellino made several connections based on “the general vibe” of the San Fernando Valley since it reminded him of Queens, where he spent some time. Bellino, an urban planner, is actually from Chicago.
He says he wanted to expand beyond the cliché of “Silver Lake is like Brooklyn,” and wanted to see what the rest of the thành phố would be like “if he went with that theme.” “It isn’t at all khổng lồ say that thành phố new york is the context in which you should view L.A., since some things are comparable & some things are just not,” Bellino said.Nonetheless, the map went viral, as it seemed lớn strike a nerve about an influx of people from thành phố new york City contributing lớn the phenomenon of native Angelenos & longtime residents being priced out of their neighborhoods.
Bellino’s image inspired a slew of other New Yorkifications of major American cities, including Chicago, the Bay, và even Miami. As might be expected, there was blowback on those fronts as well. (And a purposefully nonsensical one of thủ đô new york from anonymous poster Militant Angeleno.)
Today, while we accept Bellino’s general apology about the map, he still deserves lớn be dragged a bit more for it … So as a staunch, born-and-raised Angeleno, here are five things it got wrong.RELATED: The Glory Days of L.A. Public Transit in 1926, Mapped
Lost your chance there, buddy, if we’re gonna take it there. I would have given you that one. But come on! The SGV is totally Flushing, Queens, the most Chinese place in contemporary New York. You are now banned from eating xiaolongbao, dim sum, và Szechuan food everywhere forever.
It’s a much more comprehensive approach with many valid points, too. “Of course, L.A. Doesn’t have the defined central municipality & boroughs as thủ đô new york does, và there are many lifestyle differences between the two metros. But when you look at L.A.’s historic development patterns và the current functions of its various regions, they mirror those of thủ đô new york City khổng lồ a surprising degree,” argued writer Jason Lapota. Not sure, but take a look.
The thumping heart of central L.A., Koreatown is our biggest asset in terms of food, culture, geography, and entertainment. Sorry, no place in new york even comes close. It’s actually more dense than most of New York, so take that. Koreatown offers so much sensory pleasure, you have undoubtedly thought about how L.A. Is the best đô thị imaginable while deep in your beef, soju, and karaoke euphoria — nothing beats K-Town.
All marginalized immigrants who live on the edge of a thành phố are not the same.
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A first-generation Sinaloan-American living in Huntington Park is very different than a second-generation Dominican-American residing in the Bronx, sorry. Los Angeles is Los Angeles & will never be New York, no matter how bad you want it lớn be. This map is clearly not for people who know the joy of driving down Whittier Boulevard lớn East L.A. To have some of the best fish tacos outside of Ensenada, or down Pacific Boulevard to have outstanding Texas-style BBQ proudly cooked in Huntington Park, until it turns khổng lồ Long Beach Boulevard down all the way to South Los Angeles. On trips like that, you are reminded that L.A.’s Los Angelesness is and will be forever.
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