Bridge and Tunnel people

[Laurence Horn]

>Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>>On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:16:56PM -0500, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>
>>>  I would reckon Staten Island as being part of that crowd (at least
>>>  after the Verrazzano was built), but I don't have similar intuitions
>>>  about the other outer boroughs.  I know, you'd usually get to S.I.
>>>  from "the City" (i.e. Manhattan) by ferry, but it does seem sort of
>>>  quasi-Jersey-like, you have to admit.  (Bridge-tunnel-and-ferry
>>>  crowd?)  The Bronx and Brooklyn you'd get to by bridge or tunnel, but
>>>  they're not suburban enough to qualify.  I'm not sure about Queens.
>>
>>??? You're kidding, right, Larry? Queens and Brooklyn are the
>>archetypal B&T crowd. Not suburban enough? Let's forget about
>>those $2M apartments in Williamsburg--by Manhattan standards
>>(i.e. the Manhattan of the 1980s when these terms were
>>especially prevalent) Brooklyn and Queens were way suburban.
>>
>>Satan Island [sic] qualifies as well. It's not how you get
>>there, it's what it's like.
>>
>
>Thanks, Jesse. I was pretty sure of that usage (along with the
>facetious Hoboken), but I'm pretty loath to quarrel with Larry's
>Sprachgefühl.
>
Ach, just being Sprachgefühlisch again--I've been out of the City too
long, it appears...

larry horn