Tonight's CNN Debate Attempts to Capture the Look and Feel of Brooklyn

Live from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

For tonight’s Democratic debate, CNN did not want to merely host from Brooklyn, it wanted to set a scene, to assert the debate’s Brooklyn provenance. In both a metaphorical and visual sense, the Brooklyn Navy Yard is the perfect location from which to make that happen.

New York City in general, and especially the Brooklyn of recent decades, has alway existed in tension between the old and the new. It is a fight that tends to favor change, change that is unwelcome in at least equal measure to when it is appreciated.

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