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Cornell's Famous "West Bushwick" Writer Moves to San Francisco; Your Fault
Remember the famous "West Bushwick" item from last year? It started as a post by Doree Shafrir in response to a story Cornell student Erin Geld wrote for the Daily Sun, the littlest Ivy college's student paper. Geld stayed with friends in a nonexistant neighborhood she referred to as "West Bushwick" for the weekend and was overwhelmed and intimidated by her perceived coolness of it all. She marveled at the big lofts, the "spooky lots and the occasional shady passerby," and the fashion parade of Bedford Avenue. She came to the conclusion that she wasn't sure if she would be able to handle living in such a crazy place after graduation! Well, guess what: now you've gone and done it. In Newsweek, the same writer blogs that because of the response to the "rather neutral" item on this website, her column was "TORN apart" in our commenting section, a "New York hipster club." This "hipster attack" from commenters "managed to chase me to California." More »
urban anthropology
"I Love the Ghetto": Bushwick Hipsters Explain Their Outfits
Bushwick, Brooklyn. Hope to working-class and poor folks, a large Hispanic population, white college-grad hipsters and their holy grail of communal living, the McKibbin lofts. (1 month of free bedbugs included.) Rents are cheap, for now. Expectations, however, are high. Bushwick, the lifestyle! Bushwick, the brand—it's all there on BushwickBK.com. And these young people would like to explain their clothes to you! More »
urban anthropology
Filthy Hipster Dorm Infiltrated
A daring Times reporter infiltrated the bedbug-ridden, crime-infested, lame-party-throwing McKibbin lofts in Bushwick. Was it dirty and gross like you might expect? Oh yes, very very much so. Also, saddest thing ever, there was a 61-year-old living there, with his wife. Unironically. Because it's the cheapest place in town. Where to begin? With the urine, I guess: More »
creative underclass
Hipster Porn Flick Seeks 'Bushdick' Actors
What do you do when you need to find some good stars for your upcoming porn film, but are too cheap to put a free ad on Craigslist? Hang a flier on a pole in Bushwick, of course. And to maximize responses, just leave space at the bottom for everyone interested in starring in your low-budget fuckfest to write in their name, "Length, Girth," and email or Myspace address. Don't worry, your friends will respect you in the morning. It's a perfect opportunity for you indie rock kids in "Bushdick" to earn some extra cash between jobs. Click through for a bigger picture, and to read the enticing pitch: More »
urban anthropology
Hipster Lofts Will Afford You "Respect and Dignity," Little Else
A Craigslist ad advertises our favorite Bushwick loft space, the McKibbin lofts! Those kids are always up to something, whether fighting bedbugs or fighting the police. The ad, for the 255 McKibbin (248 are the ones with bedbugs) neglects to mention the building's lame "Sausage Parties, a recent flyer for which read, "Sausage Fest testosterone and PBR fueled nights on the town with lukewarm passion and a taste for the tepid. Come to 255!" For $2150 to $3000 a month, we'd like Champagne parties! According to the building's Wikipedia page, an apartment of theirs exploded in 2005. But those problems are easily overcome with a little catchy ad copy: More »
the poors
Feuding Hipster Lofts Allege Lame Parties, DJs
248 McKibbin, the almost certainly filthy hipster-warehouse living space that was once infested with bedbugs and also fought the police, posted a Myspace rant against their neighbors, 255 McKibbin, chiefly concerning the quality of their parties. An exerpt from "RANT: Big parties at 255 McKibbin" follows. More »
escape from new york
Kansas City Is The New Greenpoint
If you're like us, all you know about Kansas City is that it was nuked by the Russians in 1983 (in some made-for-T.V. movie we saw on the SciFi channel the other night). But they've rebuilt! And they're having a renaissance! Creative types priced out of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Providence, Wilmington, and Columbus, Ohio are flocking to Missouri's largest city, leading some wags to call it "the 11th borough." More »
the plague years
Bedbug Population Explodes At Bushwick Hipster Ground Zero
We declare the infamous hipster loft building at 255 McKibbin Street to be an official no-go zone. Over on the building's MySpace—the building has a MySpace!—the tales of bedbug woe throughout the building are pouring in. It is time to fully quarantine the area. Put up the barbed wire and the guard towers!
BEDBUGS are a MAJOR ISSUE!!! [248 McKibbin MySpace]
shopping
New York's Women Are Enslaved To Kim France
Boutiques! They're in, New York mag tells us this week. Generally found in such areas as the West Village, Cobble Hill, and Williamsburg, these usually woman-owned mini-stores cater to a particular population of twenty and thirtysomething women. Not quite hipsters, not quite preps, not quite socialites (or wannabes), these women—who toil in such industries as publishing (book and magazine, of course), advertising, and PR, with the odd teacher or non-profit employee thrown in (and maybe a lawyer looking for some weekend outfits)—will spend hundreds on the perfect pair of boots, or on a handbag. They own premium denim, but not anything immediately recognizable from the back pockets. They wear skirts and dresses, but avoid looking overly "girly." It's because the prevailing aesthetic among this demographic has become dictated almost entirely by Lucky magazine.More »
young americans
Eric Hielscher, Google Intern, Makes It In New York
Former Minnesotan, total vegetarian, and current Google intern Eric Hielscher has been at his job for a couple weeks now, and he's been blogging about his experiences moving to New York and starting a new job. He met "a nice ex-Puerto Rican (lots of them in NY)" who helped him move! It's a familiar tale, to be sure, but one that is getting played out in the way that only an intern for one of the richest companies in the world, who grew up in an 800-person town in the Midwest, can play it. More »
great opportunities
Sex Parties In West Bushwick!
An appealing "roommate wanted" post that's been up and down on Craiglist—$1200 a month, large room with terrace, near the Grand St. L train—this last week has an unusual "catch." Yeah, just a sex party once or twice a week. Don't be so uptight! Fortunately, your future roommate is both a registered E.M.T. and has a great bio online! It's endlessly fascinating.[Warning! Audio + Crazy!] Bio [Danny NYC]
$1200 Male Roommate Wanted: Duplex Loft, 2 terraces, utilities included [Craigslist]
remainders
We Are All West Bushwickians
glaring omissions
Glaring Omissions: Maybe We Should Care About 'Trace' Magazine, But Then Again, Maybe Not
Glaring Omissions reproduces tips received from readers in the last week that weren't covered on Gawker, either by accident (it happens!) or by design (it happens more often).
brooklyn
McKibben Lofts Mysteriously Migrate, Hipsters Lose Netflix In Tragic Aftermath
The two loft buildings on McKibben street—in the lands between the Morgan and Montrose L stops—rise like beacons of Manhattan developers' real plans for the wilderness of Brooklyn. But now this site, where the hipsters frolic in American Apparel and party until dawn appears, has strangely been uprooted, leaving many of its inhabitants confused. More »
williamsburg
Bad Buzzword Alert: 'Downshifting'
"Downshifting" is the new term that everyone is using —okay, so far, that two Observer reporters are using—to describe the phenomenon whereby people who actually live in one neigborhood exaggerate their proximity to a rougher area. Apparently, Erin "West Bushwick" Geld isn't the only person who's blurring the Bushwick-Williamsburg divide. Other culprits include Graham L stop-area waitress Xeniz Viray, who thinks her neighbor-friends "downshift" because "Bushwick sounds edgier than Williamsburg," and the Bushwick Country Club, a Williamsburg bar. But do a few map-illiterate dummies constitute a trend? Well, maybe ("Carroll Gardens," "Red Hook," and "Gowanus"-wise, especially), but downshifting isn't working for
williamsburg
Meet The West Bushwickians
We hear that the "West Bushwick" gang, with whom we are now obsessed, threw a party this weekend. (For latecomers, the tale of madness and gentrification began with an investigation by a Cornell reporter.) Until we hear about that fiesta, we'll have to make do with a Facebook photo album named "West Bushwick," in which there's some great shots from their parties last fall. This picture is helpfully labelled "living room, almost the cover of the latest rapture album." Please be cautious of these extremely hip children! More »
subway
Remainders: All the Crap That's Fit to Link
• Go forth, little mischief makers, and make your own subway sign — just because you can. [Subway Fun]• If you read that Times article about a month ago about the magically irritating converted schoolhouse shared by a bunch of creatives in Bushwick and thought, "Hey, that's neat," now's your chance to move in. You're an idiot, but, hey, we're not judging. [Craigslist via Lindsayism]
• How she gets the scoops: Daily News gossip girl Jo Piazza is a kissing bandit. [NYO]
• Three of the top seven most emailed Times articles pertain to macaroni and cheese, and yet we wonder why America is the land of the obese. [NYT]
• Only the brave should listen to the new Kevin Federline track. We, as we've noted before, are total pussies. Knock yourselves out, though, and tell us how it goes. [Yahoo! Music]
• Whether or not author JT Leroy is real, at least the experience of figuring him out is decidedly surreal. [Guardian]
