WHEW: At least the New York Times hasn't compared Detroit to Brooklyn

By Michael Jackman

Oct 15, 2014 at 9:56 am

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Or maybe it has, but, if so, it hasn't appeared on the radar of Bourree Lam, a guy who chronicled all the places he could find that The New York Times has compared to Brooklyn. Good news for Detroiters who declare, “We don’t want to become another Brooklyn.” It would appear that, even in the fevered imagination of the Gray Lady, we're not in the running, nor even three yoga studios away from that.

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Michael Jackman

Born in 1969 at Mount Carmel hospital in Detroit, Jackman grew up just 100 yards from the Detroit city line in east Dearborn. Jackman has attended New York University, the School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University and Wayne State University, though he never got a degree. He has worked as a bar back, busboy,...