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    Baruch Herzfeld —

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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    01:42 PM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    Sure... but who's gonna press the crosswalk button for them on sabbath?
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    11:56 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    Aren't they starting this fight a couple years late? They lost Williamsburg to the hipsters long ago. Defend Ditmas Park!
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11:38 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    So, no truth to the rumor that Williamsburg will host the finishing leg of next year's Tour d'Diaspora?
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    10:58 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    Yeah, it's just like Howard Beach. 'Cept without the, you know, fatal beatings and stuff. But other than that...

    Hyperbole much?
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    Image of hamburgerhotdog hamburgerhotdog
    10:56 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    Given all the tax shelters and shady business (ahem, you seem to not mind taking hipsters rent money and constructing crappy, blight to the eyes buildings for them to inhabit not far from your precious enclave) the hasidim operate under while expecting preferential treatment on pretty much everything and exclusion from what is a Brooklyn-wide transportation program that many have fought long and hard to implement for the better of the whole, I really have zero sympathy for this crap. Move to the Catskills. Really, just go away.

    Sorry, that was one hell of a run-on sentence but I have first hand experience on this one...
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    10:38 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    As long as there's no vag or peen flying in the breeze, no one should get to tell people what to wear while on a public street because of their stupid religious restrictions on who they may look at. We understand that it's no boobies for bubbehleh, but a bit of neighborly freedom is in order.

    Do we take a scissor to their lank Nellie Oleson curly things? Try to get them to jazz up their look with a snazzy tie in an actual color? Force them to remove their LOLHatz? Try to get them to replace their coke-bottle glasses with actual ironic Coke bottles in Peter Max frames?

    We do not.

    Free the hipsters!
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    11:32 AM

    @BettyCrocker: I'm torn here. The hipster sounds like an entitled, moronic douchebag. But he's actually right. DAMN DAMN DAMN.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11:49 AM

    @Go Like Hell Machine: I agree that they're annoying. But we're all New Yorkers, and thus should be used to being annoyed. Besides, when I see one passing by with a pair of Cavaricci pants that I threw into a bin by the Roslyn Junior League in 1987, it makes me laugh.
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    Image of AliHajiSheik AliHajiSheik
    11:54 AM

    @BettyCrocker: Yeah, this is America. Your religious objection to hipster's pasty poorly tatooed skin has no place in our civic decisions.

    Fuck those guys through a hole in a sheet.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    12:12 PM

    @BettyCrocker: Ah, see, I'm in Denver, which is the land of lumberjack hipsters in my father's old flannel shirts.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12:16 PM

    @AliHajiSheik: Lives of splendid isolation can't really be had in NYC. This is what the Hasids seem to want, but it's just not possible. By contrast, the hipsters venture out of their clove cigarette scented nests at every waking moment, intent on sharing their bitterly ironic personas with one and all.I suppose another difference is that while a hipster might refer to me as a "gay suit i-bank enabling tool sucking at the teat of one of many blood funnel squids", he won't try to tell me what to wear in public or sandblast my jogging path.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    10:35 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    does anyone want hipsters in their neighborhood?!
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    10:58 AM

    @GreyHammer: Coffee shops and failing dive bars.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11:00 AM

    @A Message To Rudy: touche.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    10:32 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    And how do the developmentally fashion challenged Hasidim rights triumph my rights?

    Welcome to America and the 21st century.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    10:27 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    All those hipster girls in their mini skirts, high heels, heavy make-up and boob-jobs, showing so much skin even in the coldest weather, on their way to the numerous clubs in downtown Brooklyn. Yeah. The Hasids sure have the case there.
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    10:44 AM

    @Niko Bellic: This.

    But Baruch Herzfeld, who has tried to bridge the gap between hipsters and Hasids with a bike-rental program, said safety is not the issue so much as xenophobia.

    And this (from the article). Apart from building brick walls to seal out omgz!gentiles, I'm not sure how much the Hasids expect us to do to accommodate them.
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    Image of hamburgerhotdog hamburgerhotdog
    10:59 AM

    @pureblarney: Endlessly. That's your answer.
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    10:20 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    I'm sure one of those groups must find all those beards, fedoras, and lack of deodorant objectionable.
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    10:59 AM

    @TableNein: Bravo, kind sir. I saw what you did there.
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    Image of The One The One
    10:18 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    The Satmars should remember that they were once the interlopers in Williamsburg. They did their most obnoxious best to impose their values and lifestyle on the people already living there.
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    Image of Bindlestiffy Bindlestiffy
    03:10 PM

    @The One: If by obnoxious best you mean offer cash inducements for others to leave? What will the hipsters do, pass out starbux coups?
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    Image of The One The One
    03:34 PM

    @Bindlestiffy: No, I'm talking about the early 50s, when they first came to the U.S.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    10:10 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    That's nothing Mormon underwear can't solve.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10:03 AM

    In reply to Baruch Herzfeld —
    That seems a little weak, spiritually speaking. If the mere sight of lady arms and ankles disturbs your faith, maybe you aren't actually that faithful or committed to god.

    You can't be a person of faith sealed away from sin. If you don't understand your sacrifice, it's meaningless.
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    Image of fatmonalisa fatmonalisa
    10:30 AM

    @Pope John Peeps II:

    Thank you Timothy Leary
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10:39 AM

    @fatmonalisa: Hmm? I don't get the reference.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    11/09/09

    In reply to Williamsburg Drummer Dies in Freak Accident
    BizWeeker Jon Fine posted this vid of his old bandmate on his Twitter page.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    11/09/09

    In reply to Williamsburg Drummer Dies in Freak Accident
    Touching tribute to Fuchs on LCD Soundsystem's Facebook page: "we're all totally stunned and shocked here. we lost a dear friend sunday morning, and we're devastated. jerry, drummer for turing machine, the juan maclean, !!!, maserati and 10,000 other lucky bands also played drums with LCD for some of the first LP tour, but that doesn't matter. jerry was more a great friend than... anything, and that includes how truly incredible of a drummer he was. we miss him horribly." #obits
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