My Three Cities

Over at Hesitating I’ve written about “my three cities” before. That post was about a game I play — trying to figure out what relatives a city would be. Example: San Francisco is a nurturing mother, New York is a strict father and Los Angeles is a bastard child.

Another fun game is to figure out what neighborhoods correlate. Last time I was in Los Angeles I realized that LA neighborhoods are pretty unique. Hollywood is kind of like Times Square, Venice a bit like Coney Island, but somehow LA neighborhoods stay uniquely LA in my mind.

At Overstated someone has made a great comparison between SF and NY.

It’s a good list. Funny enough, they put Berkely and Morning Side
Hieghts as similar. I guess I’m attracted to those liberal hippie
schools.

And in SF I lived in the Western Addition — which they put as Carol
Gardnes. I don’t know CG to well, so I can’t really confirm. But I
could definitly see them matching up. There is no Greenpoint analogy
(le sigh) but I can defintly confirm that Williamsburg is the Mission
of NY.

As you can tell from this post, I’m still missing the west coast, and the Bay Area in particular.