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So What’s the Deal with “Jefftown” and Should You Hate It?

Recently, Gothamist's Rebecca Fishbein wrote a guide summing up the new and old food places in "Jefftown" using terms such as "barstaurantification" and "hip spillover from Williamsburg," leading a couple thousand people to simultaneously go eat good food off the Jefferson L stop and feel some seriously contradictory emotions of hate towards "Jefftown

So What’s the Deal with “Jefftown” and Should You Hate It?

So What’s the Deal with “Jefftown” and Should You Hate It?

Recently, Gothamist's Rebecca Fishbein wrote a guide summing up the new and old food places in "Jefftown" using terms such as "barstaurantification" and "hip spillover from Williamsburg," leading a couple thousand people to simultaneously go eat good food off the Jefferson L stop and feel some seriously contradictory emotions of hate towards "Jefftown

So What’s the Deal with “Jefftown” and Should You Hate It?

Recently, Gothamist’s Rebecca Fishbein wrote a guide summing up the new and old food places in “Jefftown” using terms such as “barstaurantification” and “hip spillover from Williamsburg,” leading a couple thousand people to simultaneously go eat good food off the Jefferson L stop and feel some seriously contradictory emotions of hate towards “Jefftown.” And while we do love Rebecca, who actually wrote a couple of great posts for Bushwick Daily, and we even love Gothamist for the heat it produces over some seemingly ordinary subjects such as a bite of delicious food, we must ask: “What makes us give names to neighborhoods, and is it a good thing?”

I don’t know but I do have a theory. I think that giving a name to your neighborhood is akin to giving a name to your lover after, ehm, a…

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