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A friend in the hood whose aunt lives in Martin County, just past the civilizational borders of South Florida — NOT a cosmopolitan area, in other words — showed me this clipping from the local paper that she sent him. We don’t know which paper it was, and none of the text comes up in a search. I knew South Floridians were already aware of the “coolness” of Bushwick — my mom tells me her friends say buying a house here is “brilliant.” But I didn’t know it was all, Miami’s equivalent of Mystic, CT sending reporters to “get the local scoop.”
Anyway, they got most of their facts right. Bushwick Car Service (718-497-7148) are the people to call when you need a car, though I suspect they were chosen for the article because of the name. They also got where to eat and drink off the Morgan stop more or less right.
The worst of the worst is the names they made up that they claim are actually used to describe Bushwick (or the Morgantown area) — Bushburg (okay, a few douches have used that), Willwick, Billwick, Buburg, and WesWick. Buburg!? The fuck. If anyone does use these alleged nicknames, I do not want to know. As you may have noticed, the focus is on the Morgan area, but then the park down on Knickerbocker is mentioned, and that’s solid Jefferson stop territory.
Props to the Stuart yahoos for making fun of hipsters, I suppose… I feel a little bad that they can’t get a break even from people who think West Palm Beach is a no-go ghetto zone.
Jimmy Legs January 23rd, 2008 at 10:15 am
i admit defeat, ‘BuBurg’ trumps ‘SoBu’ in sheer lameness.
that reminds me, i need to put those finishing touches on my manifesto.
Dresden January 23rd, 2008 at 10:42 am
This was in some pull out mag in the New York Times back in the fall. Some style section thing. They sold the article to a paper in Florida. No uncommon.
dietsch January 23rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
Any fucker who uses Willwick, Billwick, Buburg, or WesWick around me is getting punched.
Jeremy January 23rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Ah, thanks for the explanation, Dresden. That makes it even more inexcusable.
Greg ONeill January 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I live in the area. We’re starting to call it Bourgewick. See why? I have a beer belly and I don’t dress like Kurt Cobain.
Jeremy January 23rd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Bourgewick = brilliant.
Dresden January 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Marxism applied to today’s world seems a little dated, no?
JB January 24th, 2008 at 9:22 am
This was in the New York Post’s Page Six magazine about a month ago, not the NY Times. Perhaps they snagged a copy of the Post in Florida? ‘Tis possible.
Jeremy January 24th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Marxism applied to today’s world or any world is dated and stupid, I agree, Dresden. Good thing the word “bourgeois” has a meaning and usage independent of such a retarded ideology, so nobody here is guilty of such an infraction.
Armstrong January 24th, 2008 at 10:42 am
how many years away are we from a time when “Bourgewick” actually has relevance? or do I need to spend more time in the Morgan-ville area and less time on working class Knickerbocker?
Jeremy January 24th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I think he’s just saying that there are “regular slobs” living in Bushwick, too, not just the edgy, hipstery, artsy, gay, etc. Despite being homosexual, I consider myself to have rather bourgeois ways. Let’s call it “urbane bourgeois.”
Dresden January 25th, 2008 at 9:25 am
I’m clearly of the ruling class, if there is one that isn’t made up of about 12,000 rich white old men.