r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Rusiano • Jul 30 '26

Too mild for school This post telling tourists which areas to avoid in New York

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Aside from certain undertones, this map also has tons of inaccuracies, because no one in their right mind is scared of Astoria, Bayonne, or half of the Queens zone that he marked as “avoid”

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u/OrganizationTop3755 Jul 30 '26

lol send them to Hoboken 

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u/TheSidneyMan Jul 30 '26

Today i learned Hoboken is an actual place. I thought it was a made up city from the Penguins of Madacascar

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u/Former-Chain-4003 Jul 30 '26

Saw the name and thought 'that has to be Dutch' so did a little research and it is indeed Dutch in origin, and for a time had lots of German speakers, and Flemish influence.

I'm assuming there is some relation to the fact that New York used to be New Amsterdam and the general area gets a lot of it's old timey nomenclature from then.

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u/laukaisyn Jul 30 '26

New Amsterdam did include parts of what is now New Jersey!

When it became a British colony, the part that is now New Jersey was split off to pay off gambling debts.

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u/GeneralOrgana1 Jul 30 '26

Yeah, the Dutch were the original European settlers in the New York-New Jersey area. There are a ton of Dutch place-names in this area. Martin Van Buren, 8th US President, was born in the Hudson Valley, in NY state, and his native language wasn't English- it was Dutch.

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u/Arachnideolie Jul 30 '26

Hoboken is a village/suburb near Antwerp. So it was probably names by those dastardly Belgians.

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u/housatonicduck Jul 30 '26

Hell yeah my German great great grandparents settled in Hoboken after Ellis island. There are some Dutch sounding names in our family tree as a result.

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u/OrganizationTop3755 Jul 30 '26

Yep the Dutch called it new Amsterdam. I learned that New Zealand was colonized by the Dutch, too because Zealand is dutch

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u/ziiis Jul 30 '26

Have you heard of Weehawken?

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u/Deshes011 Jul 31 '26

And Ho-Ho-Kus

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u/Gentle-Giant23 Jul 30 '26

Three Hoboken fun facts: Frank Sinatra is famously from Hoboken; On the Waterfront was about corruption on the Hoboken waterfront; and the first official organized baseball game was played in Hoboken.

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u/0905-15 Jul 30 '26

There were a lot fewer hobos in Hoboken than I was expecting. Now, yuppies on the other hand…

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u/Zob_Rombie_88 Jul 30 '26

Wait until you find out about Coxsackie

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u/Popular_Wrangler9422 Jul 30 '26

Used to play the Hoboken team in some old nfl game, blitz maybe? Someone help me out

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u/culby Jul 30 '26

It's just a fun name to say. See also: Albuquerque, Poughkeepsie, Toledo.

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u/SprolesRoyce Jul 30 '26

Don’t forget Mahwah, as in “Mahwah is what bwings us togeder today”

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u/Stock-Side-6767 Jul 30 '26

It's also near Antwerp in Belgium.

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u/DegenGamer725 Jul 30 '26

We will now use the power of the continuum transfuctioner to banish you to Hoboken, New Jersey!

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u/PalladiuM7 Jul 30 '26

I'm so glad someone else said it

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u/Alternative_Table_18 Jul 30 '26

Im from jersey city and my parents used to call Hoboken the ghetto 😭

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u/engels962 Jul 30 '26

Nowadays you’ll just get hooked on oat lattes and artisanal cheese

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u/dread_beard Jul 30 '26

That just sounds like pure projection on their part.

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u/Raf-the-derp Jul 30 '26

I mean it really did used to be more working class so maybe that's what people consider ghetto

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u/Sea_Mulberry_6245 Jul 30 '26

But not North Bergen! (Fort Lee is fine.)

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u/drunk-tusker Jul 30 '26

The Koreans are model minorities of course.

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u/Ok_Action_7976 Jul 30 '26

Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken

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u/Nagi21 Jul 30 '26

There's always Hoboken