Hipsters
News Click: We're the Graffitiest!
"Dickchicken" tag. -- Photo by SReed99342
Graffiti complaints are on the rise in North Brooklyn, and as this Daily News article (for a change) correctly attests, part of that rise is due to less tolerant residents trying to take their neighborhood back.
“You can’t turn a corner without seeing graffiti around here. The city cleans it up and the kids just come and do the same thing all over again,” complained Patricia Bradford, who lives nearby.
“It’s not fair,” she said. “I live ...
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'Flavor': The Most Outrageous Euphemism
Some of Bushwick's "flavor": Chinese food dumped in the same spot on Central Avenue for years until a black slick of filth forms. The rats ... -
Paper Hag: 80s Has-Been Deigns to Visit Bushwick
"Downtown" culture magazine Paper cautiously tip-toed into Bushwick this month and hosed the place down with their embarrassingly self-unaware trademark "edginess." The article is by ... -
Next Wednesday: Hipster Mortgage Night
All the anti-gentrification fist-pumping in the world is not going to keep your rent from going up. Instead, use the most powerful and actually effective ... -
Floridians Say Bushwick Is Hot
click to enlarge A friend in the hood whose aunt lives in Martin County, just past the civilizational borders of South Florida -- NOT a cosmopolitan ...
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Art Fag Scared Off by All of Bushwick's 'Real'
I guess it's a NY Mag Tuesday: This guy is the ultimate hipster douche. He moved to Bushwick in search of a mock of 1970s Soho? Ugh. And then was shocked to learn that you need to be somewhat alert -- take those ipod buds out -- so that people don't use surprise attacks to mug you? UGH. And then ... -
NYT's City Room: Is China East30 Williamsburg?
DeKalb and Cypress. Is it Bushwick? Is it Ridgewood? Is it BOTH? *head explodes* A few people sent me this bit from the New York Times' insipid "City Room" blog: Is Ridgewood the New East Bushwick? Fucking gag me. Nothing could be more expressive of the Times' complete disconnect from most things non-Manhattan than their inability to grasp the concept of ... -
Bathtubs in Kitchens? I Think Not!
Bushwick Avenue brownstones. Photo from Forgotten NY The cool folks at Reclaimed Home, a site for people renovating their houses on the cheap, gave a shout out to Bushwick today...such as it was. News flash: Bushwick is not being newly populated only by hipsters. In fact, it's probably being evenly newly populated by whites and (non-white) Mexicans. But I already digress. ... -
Best Minds of My Generation... in Bushwick?
Thirty years ago, Bushwick burned; today, it's being slapped with a disorderly conduct summons. I know that I probably shouldn't lambaste people in search of love but I just can't help myself. Doing some research on Bushwick last night (yes, actual research), I stumbled upon the following Craigslist "Missed Connection": mckibbin lofts roof party the cops broke up - w4m - ... -
In Bushwick, Crap Sales Are No Crapshoot
Welcome Molly, a student at Columbia Journalism, to the blog. She'll be posting original stories she digs up on her new beat: Bushwick. They'll be newsier than we're used to here. -- Jeremy Outside her McKibbin Street loft in Bushwick last Saturday, Hester Sunshine was selling her life away. "Buy my crap – I need to go to London," the tall, tattooed ... -
An East Villager Discovers Bushwick
Photo by Steve Reed I think it's funny when hipsters from an earlier generation, many of them among the first to begin moving to places like the East Village in the early 80s, finally make the trip out to that place past Williamsburg they have been hearing so much about. Steve Reed made his trip of discovery this weekend, and aside ... -
Homebuying for Hipsters, Bushwick Edition
The Brooklyn blogosphere loves to make fun of the Benjamin James project to get hipsters to buy homes. Aside from the transparent Virgin Mobile-"You Rule"-reminiscent corn this entails, it really is a great idea. And it's a template that should be expanded for other groups. Homeownership isn't some exclusive club for the rich, even in New York. It's nothing glamorous, ... -
Bushwick Food Coop
For some more up-to-date info on forming a Bushwick Food Co-op, please see the thread in the forum. The co-op described below was never formed. So I went to the meeting for setting up a Bushwick food coop on Sunday. I had never been to Asterisk, which seems like a great place for the parties they have there on occasion...except it ... -
Art: English Kills All Sense
A herd of us went to the opening at English Kills Art Gallery on Saturday. We were all at a party on Knickerbocker and Starr but wanted to take a field trip to check out the art. It's funny watching the poorly-hidden terror of a group of art fags and hipsters as they lose one or two of their flock ... -
Sick of The Archive
My partner Luis was pissed that I gave The Archive such a bad review in my upstart café review blog -- "it's all we have!" -- but I'm just so sick of this half-assed steamer of a café. Hopefully you'll forgive me. My friend Margaret says "I can hear this place's asshole tearing from Miami." Maybe the proprietor will hear ... -
