photo by Brunocerus
Snap! (A Hipster’s Neck With Ease?): You know Bushwick has arrived when Chelsea queens are mentioning our hipsters in a write-up of a Ninth Avenue swimsuit shop. Even if it’s not a flattering mention…
There’s This Thing Called a ‘Map’: Like, Roberta’s is so hard to find cuz it’s like in Bushwick and stuff and it’s like, three trains away or something. Another ditzy glutton complaining about the portions at our venerable pizzeria napoletana.
The OMG-Girl Parade Continues: One former McKibbin resident’s friend defends the lofts’ rep against NYT‘s hallway-pissing claims. But she’s cool, srsly — she deigned to find out the “locals” are called Boricuas, or something! OMG her Spain-ish is so good! Ultimately, on a “serious” note, gentrification has nothing to do with hipsters and McKibbin — it’s like, the real estaters fault! Who all operate in a vacuum, cuz they’re teh evil.
Dresden May 29th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I read that OMG-Girl thing. She’s got the “scoop” on the McKibbin sitch (situation). I know a guy who lives there who owns his own internet technology firm, makes more money than at least four of our parents put together, is about 34, and rents out a 3000 SF loft for him and his cats. He’s the odd-ball in the building, for sure. Spent a lot of time in the building, and it’s pretty much a stupid community of pretentious nothings. You think that’s like Seattle in 1992, you’re wrong… it isn’t Paris in the 20s, or NYC in the late 70s. It is really nothing.
And real estate developers are more creative than anyone in that building. The period.