"A profitable chapter might be written, modeled after the famous essay by James Russell Lowell, and renamed 'On a Certain Condescension of New Yorkers Toward the City of Brooklyn.' But I'll not write it. I am too busy exploring — yes, literally exploring — the sunny, serene, and spacious borough across the East River to bother over its defense."
— James Huneker, "Mysterious, Beautiful Brooklyn," 1915
