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Heartbreaking news out of Brooklyn: Williamsburg has changed. It seems the HIP young hipster area is "no longer a neighborhood, but a destination for debauchery." And the L train to Bedford Avenue—it's no longer a seedy underground passage to hipsterdom. Now it's just a gateway to formerly desolate streets "packed with giggling outer-borough and outer-island 20- and 30-somethings on a night out." [NY Observer] Crap! When did this happen?!?
Nicole Brydson from the Observer used to live in Greenpoint, and now when she goes back, she's not even the only one! Or as she wryly puts it, "I've recently found myself traveling north to Williamsburg and Greenpoint for a night out more often and apparently, I'm not alone!"
Trendwatch! SEA Thai restaurant is so bridge-and-tunnel! Greenpoint has clubs and a bowling alley! And Nicole tells us that, at long last, "with its mix of hipster residue and tragically suburban folk, Bedford Avenue finally completed its transformation into the new Avenue A." Tragic. Let's hope word of this doesn't get out to the hip young hipster crowd attending their musical shows around the neighborhood. It would make them so mad!
Having gotten fed up with all the stumblebums and glitterati roaming the streets of Greenpoint, she says she's now "totally content to return to my quiet, peaceful neighborhood" of Prospect Heights. That's cool but, is your old apartment available? I really want to get in on this Greenpoint thing before it gets spoiled!
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Can we get a new "Shut up, Brooklyn" tag?
Same as it ever was... SAME.AS.IT.EVER.WAS!
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Brilliant
W'Burg last death throe was the shuttering of the seedy bodega right at the corner of 7th and Bedford.
Apparently a store cannot sustain itself on the sale of Sparkz Energy Drink alone.
I hear that Nassau county is going to be really hot soon.
... and Galileo was eventually pardoned by the Catholic Church.
@Nic Fit: yeah, Hempstead is totally the new Williamsburg.
One day, Bushwick, you'll get your chance to shine. Just wait...
@Nic Fit: Kew Gardens is where it's going to be at next.
BREAKING NEWS: East Village delis are being overrun with packs of NYU students, many in snuggly pajamas, sweatshirts and slippers.
@Hamilton Nolan: I hope that means yes...
Keokuk, IA is the new Williamsburg.
@mitchel_stevens: they're already there. and by they I obviously mean Hipsters.
@Nic Fit: For sure. Mike Comrie and Hillary Duff are to that area as Ledger/Williams were to Brooklyn. The Marriott bar across from the coliseum is the new Plush.
Sunset Park. Shhhh....
Don't tell anyone, but there's a bar a couple blocks off the New Rochelle Metro North station that offers a beer called Pabst Blue Ribbon at a low, low price.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Yes! I think it was Mel Brooks who said, paraphrased, "Brooklyn is a great place to be from. Got it? From."
So, you write an article complaining about the influx of outsiders, and you're a reporter who no longer lives in the neighborhood but goes to "visit".
Admit it. Your youth is gone.
@Nic Fit: Psssht, Nassau's so over- Huntington's the new L.E.S. and Riverhead is totally the new b'burg.
But Hamilton, you're already there! From what I hear, you're the hippest guy on Newell Street!
@hypocriteoath: True. The Tight Pants Invaders are already DJing and flipping off cameras on every street corner in Bushwick.
Gowanus is totally the New...uh, Old Gowanus.
To me, anything that keeps the B&T crowd on the other side of the Bs and Ts is a sweet deal.
@flipper baby: Don't say anything but Bethpage is the bomb lately...
Can I get a rent reduction then?
...and that makes us Manhattanites the new bridge and tunnel :-(
As far as I can tell, I'm still in the vast minority of non- polish peoples in my Greenpoint 'hood. And I love it. Polskie Obiady and stuff. Babushka.
is it wrong of me to wish this writer bodily harm?
Have you heard of this "Bushwick?" It's blowing up!
Kids actually go to the McKibbin lofts to take pictures on the roof now, so they can post them on facebook and make it look like they live there. It's like guidos posing next to Ferraris that aren't theirs, but with wannabe-hipster NYU students.
I wouldn't deal with an L train ride into that filthy neighborhood for anything less than Clive Owen dipped in chocolate.
It's still the best place in the city to find someone who will fuck without a condom.
Guys: on the down low... the next "hot" nabes will be Kips Bay (Manhattan), South Jamaica (Queens), Country Club (the Bronx), Arrochar (Staten Island), and of course Starrett City (Brooklyn). Buy... land... NOW!
@City_Dater: "This is mental! I'm fucking Clive Owen!"
Being tired of Williamsburg was sooo 5 years ago. All the cool kids are complaining about Ridgewood.
Funny that up until recently Brooklynites WERE b&t.
Saturday Night Fever, what?
better be mindful of all that fuckin' you're doing without a condom. you might end up in philadelphia.
In 10 years they will look at Williamsburg as "the birthplace of the Hipster™"
@Nic Fit: No No..Le Frak City - conveniently right off the LIE.
@JorgeLuisGorgeous: Stay the hell out of Ridgewood! Leave those poor Polish people alone, they already got kicked out of Greenpoint! What are you trying to do? Drive them to Montauk?
I'm movin' out to the Pink Houses.
@In Other News...: Have you ever been to Arrochar or was it just a funny name you happened upon while gazing at a map?
@In Other News...: Nowhere in SI will be cool this century.
@ShrugsAndKisses: Don't even joke about that. The Keokuk rockabilly guys are beyond insane.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: thank you for saying it.
Just stay out of Bushwick you yuppies! Deeeefffffendddddddd!
@aisatsana: [moneyries.blogspot.com] i posted a pic of all the "snow" outside the mckibbin lofts this morning.
@JorgeLuisGorgeous: Ridgewood? Why would anyone want to live in Ridgewood (let alone complai about it)?
Seriously, the best place to bitch about is Astoria.
@hypocriteoath:
then the battle is lost. to flatbush--eh, wait, second thought i'll stick around.
@moneyries: @aisatsana: Bush- wick? Do you mean East Williamsburg?
Seriously, is it too late to hand Brooklyn back to the British? Maybe then we can get some good curry houses and national health care. (LOVE the new tag, BTW.)
@riskybusiness: Annadale... Travis... Mariners Harbor... used to live there dude. Like Tom Hanks on Cast Away, I made the most of it.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: You have obviously never been to the Outback across from the Staten Island Mall. If ever there was a next Socialista...