[iamdamian]

Something's off about this list. I can't find Brooklyn Syndrome on Wikipedia and think the description is confusing.

The main source I found on Brooklyn Syndrome is from the Names journal [0], which has a nearly identical description.

I wonder if this article is a direct copy of that journal article with lazy paraphrasing from the Atlas Obscura writers to avoid plagiarism. If so, this makes me wonder how much of Atlas Obscura was created this way.

[0]: (PDF) https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/2019/2018/40...

[pahbloo]

Maybe this entry is fake, just thrown in there to catch any future copycats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

[dghughes]

> I can't find Brooklyn Syndrome on Wikipedia

Maybe nobody added it.

[dimal]

A quick google found this [0], a citation from 1943. Seems to check out, but the source says it's kind of a joke term.

https://www.sciencenews.org/archive/brooklyn-syndrome

[ctrlp]

Could easily have been named Borough Syndrome