images via wikipedia [#,#]

In today’s Seattle Times Danny Westneat asks [#] :

Is Bellevue a “new Brooklyn?”

I admit that I’ve visited Brooklyn (population 2.5 million, founded 1646¹) more times than I’ve set foot in Bellevue (0.1 million, incorporated 1953), but I soldiered on past the ridiculous headline to get find the argument linking the borough to the suburb edge city. Wait for it, B is a new B because there are immigrants and lots of non-White people there! Why, Westneat found someone complaining about pizza in “New Yorkese”.

Please bring your favorite refutation or defense of this hypothesis to the comments section or tonight’s meet-up at the Green Room. Awards, in the form of cheap beer, will be presented for the best entries.

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1. wikipedia says, seven years before New Amsterdam, btw. [#]