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Leaving Brooklyn
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Jen Chung
Published Jul 22, 2003
Modified Mar 6, 2008
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Published Jul 22, 2003
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That Marty Markowitz - he's always coming up with some new and crazy idea. Like signs at Brooklyn's exit points that say, "Leaving Brooklyn...Fuhgeddaboutit." The NY Post reveals the wacky Brooklyn borough president's thinking - "Once you enter Brooklyn, there's no good reason why you should ever leave" - and goes on to point out that many Brooklynites (and sports teams) do leave in fact, and it's possible that one in four Americans has roots in Brooklyn.
The signs will be up by the end of the week, so anyone taking the Gowanus Expressway and Belt Parkway approaches to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge or the Belt Parkway and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near the Queens border can check them out.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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