A Note from a Place Better than the Boroughs

Leave it to Gawker to write this completely unoriginal piece about Kansas City’s revitalization. It sounds just like everything else on Gawker, as if it were written by a basement-dwelling, wanna-be hipster who thinks that his 212 area code qualifies as coolness.

While I appreciate Gawker thinking of KC as “Missouri’s largest city” – uh, did you forget the home of the arch? – calling it the “11th borough” is not only crass, it’s downright insulting to think that Brookside, the Old Northeast, Westwood, the Country Club Plaza, or a dozen other Kansas City locales aren’t better than the likes of Queens, Brooklyn, or fuck it, Manhattan. Equally obnoxious: the comments. They’re likely written, as one co-worker suggested, by the douchebags Gawker hires to leave comments.

One longtime local, having stumbled across Gawker’s shit trail today, offered this reaction: