The Evolution of the New York Times Brooklyn Trend Piece
- Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times
June 20, 2012: Rockaway Boardwalk as Catwalk
Summary: A trip to the beach these days is another opportunity to feel bad about your outfit, because nothing is scared anymore.
Representative Quote: “it’s only in New York on the way to the sole gorgeous sand strip in the world lying beneath the J.F.K. flight path that one will encounter a pack of smartly dressed women with full-sleeve tattoos who are volubly — and with their generation’s blithe disregard for social niceties — squawking at myna-bird speed about their shopping and money and boyfriend habits, and even more intimate things.”
Takeaway: These reporters have an unreal ability to find the very worst people, and get them to say the very worst things, while posing for pictures. We are all monsters.