Good news, New Westminster – Vancouver’s version of the trendy borough. The Wall Street Journal thinks Brooklyn “is its own industry now, its own mind state, style and bottomless source of cliches, existing independently, no longer in the shadow of the concrete and glass across the river.”
And what has led to such a precipitous judgment?
Hockey.
Now there’s a hockey team, the New York Islanders. They announced it Wednesday, in a hurried early afternoon press conference inside the lobby of the Barclays Rusty Turtle. This is not an announcement that will make you break upcoming plans. The NHL is amid a lockout and not skating, and even if they go back to work, the Islanders aren’t coming for two more years, after a final pair of zombie seasons in Nassau Coliseum.
Yesterday’s announcement was basically the equivalent of parents assembling their children into the living room and excitedly announcing that the whole family is going to Disneyland…in 2015. …
Brooklyn may be getting a hockey team, but that’s not really the story. The story is that a hockey team is getting Brooklyn.
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