A
cool borough, but the Bronx is still
better because
1) The Bronx has City Island.
2) We have a zoo and a botanical garden.
3) The Manhattan numbering system continues into the Bronx, and unlike Brooklyn, we don't have 5 different confusing numbering systems at the same
time.
4) The Bronx is one-quarter park space. Take that, Prospect Park!
5) The Bronx has more waterfront area.
6) The Bronx (Hunts Point) is the birthplace of hip hop. Amusingly the Bronx is also home to places that are so much the opposite of that, like
Riverdale.
7) You actually can picture where you are in the Bronx, unlike Brooklyn which has that back-end feel to it.
I was walking in Brooklyn on 86th
Street then all of a sudden it was East 59th
Avenue and then that intersected with Bayridge 781st Boulevard. How
confusing.