Chicagoist: NYC vs. Chicago: Showdown in the Papers

Anonymous

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:14:50 -0600

chicago may smell like chocolate, but new york smells like MAPLE SYRUP. Yeah, but we KNOW why we smell like chocolate. /Another victory for Chicago. //The best pizza deal is still up in the air.

Zak

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:34:00 -0600

I'm with vit. There are great things, and obnoxious things, about both Chicago and New York. The really important thing is that we are both better than L.A.

bopo

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:13:45 -0600

Like most people here have said, this isn't really worth commenting on, but it did remind me of one of my favorite David Sedaris quotes: "Visiting Americans will find more warmth in Tehran than they will in New York, a city founded on the principle of Us versus Them. I don’t speak Latin but have always assumed the city motto translates as Go Home or We Don’t Like You Either."

br

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:59:52 -0600

I'm actually amazed that anyone in NY media would have taken the time to comment on this stuff. Even a has-been like Cindy Adams. Most New Yorkers (I am a former one myself) don't think about Chicago, or pretty much any place other than New York, as important. To a New Yorker, New York City is the center of the universe. It's arrogant and self-absorbed and ultimately part of what makes New Yorkers New Yorkers. It's also, ironically, a very provincial way of looking at the world. I personally feel that New York is a terrible place to live anymore. It's become a playground for the rich (Brooklyn included) because of the cost of real estate. Once we started seeing mommies holding Starbucks and pushing baby strollers on Avenue B, it was all over. And to cinch the deal, Debbie Harry now lives in Connecticut.

MikeH

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:49:05 -0600

I know everyone is sick of this debate, but if I may just throw my two cents in... As someone else has already mentioned, not only did we invent the skyscraper, but we have perhaps the MOST recognizable skyline in the world, and that is due to careful planning. New York just thows buildings up all willy-nilly without any regard for how it will affect the general aesthetic, and it shows...

vit

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:45:38 -0600

Oh geez, I wish they'd give it a rest, this arguement is silly, and pointless. I love nyc (in fact i'm hoping to go there in a couple of months), but I love coming home to chicago, we should band together and take on the rest of this weird country, not be quibbling amongst ourselves on how to do urban living right.

MLH

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:33:20 -0600

This little spat demonstrates that there's no reason to read Cindy Adams' column, or indeed Roeper's. We should probably ignore Sneed, as well, just to be on the safe side.

Willie P

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:57:33 -0600

Cindy Adams? I wasn't even aware she was still alive. I recall an SNL skit many years back when they did an "Only On New York" gossip bit and Nora Dunn came out as Cindy Adams and lamented on how Greta Garbo had just died and "It seems like only yesterday I was going through her garbage." She's in a gossip rag anyway so we should just be the bigger townspeople and let it go. They can have their higher profile crimes and their bigger political scandals. The important thing is we still have the better pizza.

NSH

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:48:25 -0600

Who really cares?

jeff

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:37:36 -0600

I forgot to add we have the most bars per capita.

jeff

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:33:33 -0600

That article makes her look bad. Who cares if you city has 100 great resaurants or 50, you're not gonna go to all of them anyways. New York is bigger because it has almost 3 times the people there in only 1.5 times the area. That just means that everyone is living on top of everyone else. Besides she was a little one sided there. Which city invented the skyscraper? who does them the biggest and best? which city is the only one with two original baseball teams? Which has the largest source of fresh water in the world? Chicago has the most business travlers in the country, not new york. I really can't stand east coast arrogance thats why i love it here.

navin

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:29:58 -0600

Too bad TAL will soon be moving to NYC. What a drag.

Anonymous

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:26:54 -0600

Wow, Cindy Adams is a horrible writer. Must have been a slow gossip day, eh? Glad to see there are writers who get paid so well to cover such important topics.

douglas

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:10:23 -0600

chicago may smell like chocolate, but new york smells like MAPLE SYRUP.

Matt Walker

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:01:37 -0600

Do I need to mention that Chicago in terms of Restaurants has the top new restaurant in America, Alinea, and the Second Best Restaurant in the Country, Charlie Trotter's, which is second only to the French Laundry? This stuff is all stupid anyway, nevermind.

Mr. Smith

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:41:52 -0600

What's the deal with the NYC vs. Chicago fight lately? There was that package in Chicago magazine this month and this goofy article in USA Today last month.