Bronx residents attempt to claim Manhattan's Marble Hill as part of borough

[hrmjustin]

DENIS SLATTERY
The battle of Marble Hill rages on!

Denouncing Manhattan as a bastion for hipsters and billionaires, a group of intrepid Bronx residents planted the county flag Saturday in Marble Hill — which is technically a part of Manhattan — and called for the annexation of the community on the 75th anniversary of a similar stunt by the Bronx’s former borough president.

“No longer must you suffer the spoiled ramblings of the effete bourgeoisie and the ever encroaching menace of hipsterism,” roared Isaac Moore, the leader of the so-called revolutionary group the Great and Glorious Grand Army of The Bronx.

After planting the flag, Moore and his compatriots demanded the residents of Marble Hill declare their “loyalty to the mightiest, most glorious and obviously, most handsome, borough and county of The Bronx.”


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/marble-hill-caught-boroughs-article-1.1781901#ixzz318ckT5Mi

[Historic NY]

1. I thought they want the cemetery...

when I read the headline.

http://www.marblecemetery.org/

[hrmjustin]

2. They want the whole thing.

I thought they will get it.