• miss you, brooklyn

    Blogger Boy Needs You For Girlfriend's Brooklyn Birthday

    Our friend-in-blogging Ryan, who, with his girlfriend, created and maintained the wonderful, now-defunct LOLSecretz, needs our help. You see, said girlfriend has moved from her beloved Greenpoint, Brooklyn to the wilds of Connecticut and misses the gray city and its Morlock inhabitants dearly. So, for her birthday, Ryan has placed a life-sized cut out of her on a street corner in Greenpoint and asks that friends and strangers pose for a photo with "her," and send it in. That way she can feel like she had a big ol' party with friends (...and complete strangers...) in fair Greenpoint. Sounds crazy and sort of cute, right? Full details after the jump. More »
    06/16/08
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    Comment by gawksFromaRock: @BadUncle: make sure you send her the frottage cheese, too. more » | Other threads

  • hair

    Williamsburg Mullet Guy Seeks Love

    You may remember Chris, the Williamsburg gentleman with the controversial haircut pictured at left, who was just this past February spotted in the wild by our own intrepid Hamilton Nolan. And you may also be a woman aged 21-35, within 10 miles of Brooklyn, and optionally an assertive, sarcastic "braniac" with piercings. If so, perhaps Chris, aka LowRezChris on Match.com, could show you why they say he puts the "party" in the phrase "party in the back?!" More »
    04/28/08
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    Comment by BlinkyMcChuck: He is just so, so alive. more » | Other threads

  • hipsters

    Brooklyn Hipster Kickball: The Prom Pics

    It's totally fun to point and laugh at Williamsburg as a post-collegiate paradise that takes kickball and Japanese sneakers way too seriously. However, keep in mind: when looking through these photos of last year's Brooklyn Kickball Dance, you may have the same realization I did: Damn, used to date that guy. Related: is the "Brooklyn Kickball" ankle tatto real? More »
    04/09/08
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    Comment by persephone: faux gangsta lesbians! more » | Other threads

  • shut up, brooklyn

    Hipster Kickball Scandal: Dive Bar Served with List of Demands

    Last week, we published the longest rant about hipster kickball in Brooklyn in the history of hipster kickball. It turns out that there's more to the story: BKKB co-founder Kevin Dailey, 38, has written a somehow more outrageous letter. This time it's a list of demands to Williamsburg dive bar Turkey's Nest, the closest bar to McCarren Park. (He was referred to as "Kev" in the previous screed.) Highlights and allegations? "What I make in one week of kickball is less than the margarita machine generates in one hour." Also, "Over those four years, kickball has made the Nest hundreds of thousands of dollars." More »
    04/09/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by Fofofofo: I believe that this is what everyone wants to see... Kevin's MySpace: [www.myspace.com] more » | Other threads

  • hipsters

    Trouble Brewing with Hipster Kickball League

    "I signed up with some friends to play kickball in McCarren (because running and drinking outdoors is fun!)" writes a tipster. "I was worried that I wouldn't be diehard enough for the people who normally turn out for this league, and Christ Almighty, I think I was right. The E-mail below is from a self-described "league vet" who needs to get a fucking life..." The email below proves that people have no idea how difficult it is to organize a Brooklyn kickball league these days... More »
    04/01/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by missbheave (is not convinced): @moff: sponsorship = they let them have some old ketchup packets or something. more » | Other threads

  • shut up, brooklyn

    Confirmed: Hipsters Whine Loudest

    Williamsburg and Greenpoint are the whiniest neighborhoods in Brooklyn. In less than a year, the tedious havens of under or over-employed post-college entitled brats/ Gawker employees made 8,900 complaints to 311, beating the #2 neighborhood, Canarsie/ Flatlands, by 500 complaints. Between drunk hipsters making a mess and Polish landlords getting mad and reporting the mess to the city and hipsters then reporting their Polish landlords' minor code violations to the city in revenge, this was inevitable. [Brooklyn Paper]
    03/14/08
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    Comment by Cheap Shot: 311 is a joke. more » | Other threads

  • shut up, brooklyn

    Report: Williamsburg Not As Cool As It Was, Earth Revolves Around Sun

    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?!? More »
    02/22/08
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    Comment by riskybusiness: @In Other News...: just checkin'. i was in arrochar briefly this past saturday morning. one of my best friends who... more » | Other threads

  • mystery solved

    Mystery Williamsburg Hair Man Found!

    The unknown haircut man of Brooklyn, previously known only by this crude drawing, has been located. He's currently sitting right next to me at Cafe Grumpy in Greenpoint [UPDATE: He's gone!]. His name is Chris, and he has never heard of Gawker. Good for him! After the jump, an actual photo reveals the man behind the mystery. More »
    02/18/08
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    Comment by BroderickHalona: Next thing you know, people are going to start saying that mustaches are back. more » | Other threads

  • sex

    Williamsburg "Herpes Avenger" Is Fighting STDs With Fliers

    "Do you live in the Williamsburg Greenpoint area? I know you probably love it. I love it too. But you should be aware of some things. Living here is much like living in a college dorm. It's a hotbed (no pun intended) of sexually transmitted diseases. But it doesn't have to be like this." We agree! Well, maybe up until the last sentence. Anyway, one woman has made it her mission to stop the spread of herpes by, for starters, making it impossible for the guy who gave it to her ever to get laid again. More »
    10/23/07
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    Comment by Trackback: Young sexuality is different now than it was a generation ago, and probably a generation before that…it goes... more » | Other threads

  • new york: the film set

    Greenpoint, The Heart Of 'The Lipstick Jungle'

    Last night, apartments in what is known locally as the ugliest building in Greenpoint were seriously papered. Were they eviction notices? Utility shut-offs? No! Just a note from Candace Bushnell and friends. More »
    10/23/07
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    By Sheila

    Comment by meh!: Who is Sheila? I've been away too long. more » | Other threads

  • cheese glorious cheese

    The Third Annual Casserole Party At Brooklyn Label

    Last night at new Franklin Street neighborhood institution Brooklyn Label, a lot of messy-haired people got in touch with their Midwestern roots by eating concoctions with names like "Texas Casserole Massacre" and "Practically Perfect Pairing." Organizer Emily Farris, whose casserole cookbook comes out next Fall, was in high spirits. "I am running around like a crazy lady!" she said, doing just that. "I have to get some waters for my judges!" The water-needing judges included Adam Roberts, author of "The Amateur Gourmet," and a lady who is a sous-chef for the Food Network. Not a judge: Jordana Rothman, who writes about food for Time Out New York. "I'm not bitter or anything," she explained. "But I decided not to enter a casserole, either. Hmmph!" Also not bitter: The casseroles! More »
    10/17/07
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    Comment by TimeWarnerRhymeAnaheim: Well I thought "Crock Pot" summed it up. But I can make a mean tamale pie! more » | Other threads

  • sidelines

    Is Your Super Not Fixing The Bathroom Because He's Busy Making Softcore Porn?

    Greenpoint's landmarked Astral apartment building looks great from the outside, but on the inside it's a bedbug-ridden toxic mold trap with actual mushrooms growing out of the waterlogged walls. Why is it so ill-maintained? Well, according to blogger Eefers, who just escaped the decrepit building, "I look out my kitchen window into the building's 'courtyard' and see the super accompanying a young woman dressed in stilettos and a bathrobe to the "work" shed. He is carrying a camera... Apparently the super runs an amateur pornography photo business. Apparently he also does this during business hours, when he could be fixing my bathroom." At least he displays some standards of professionalism in his sideline business, though! "If you are interested in working with me Please send me a message i will try my best to get back to you soon as possible. I DONT TURN DOWN TFP IF YOU GOT A LOOK I CANT REFUSE. (But my Rates are Reasonable) Models Must Arrive on Time,with Clean Hair and Nails Done. Please put your cell phone on vibrate during the shoot ..."
    10/15/07
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    Comment by djjamestaylor: That guy just hangs out all day. When he's not hanging out in front of the Astral entrance on Frankling... more » | Other threads

  • from the mailbag

    A recent visitor to groovy downhome Greenpoint restaurant Queen's Hideaway writes: "I was eating there this weekend. The back garden was full of kind of Greenpoint hipster. All of a sudden a mouse runs right across the pavement followed in quick pursui t by a cat. The cat caught the mouse and began toying with it. For 15 minutes, the cat batted around the little creature, inflicting non-life threatening but painful wounds. All the customers looked on in horror as the mouse was tortured ultimately to death. The waitress looked on apathetically. After the cat had lost interest and left the mouse to die on the pavement, someone asked, 'Can you please clean up the mouse?' And the waitress huffily responded, 'What do you want me to do? It's still kind of alive. I can't sweep him up.' Everyone just waited a few more minutes as the mouse died. Finally she swept the corpse away."
    10/03/07
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    Comment by Senor_Wences: @mediamendicant: How about instead replacing "cat" with "Greenpoint's authentic Polish heritage" and "mouse" with "Jews hiding in a barn outside... more » | Other threads

  • hawkings

    Beirut Plays Secret Show For Greenpoint Music Snobs

    Last night whilst we were pondering the finer points of coq a vin on 'Top Chef,' a small but serious contingent of Greenpoint hipsters (they're just like Williamsburg hipsters but taller, slightly less preposterous and more rugged) were enjoying a drink-laden and secret show by Beirut, Zach Condon's Balkans-Brooklyn indie-folk-whatever band. But the hipsters had a dirty secret. More »
    09/20/07
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    Comment by goldsoundz: The Flying Club Cup is one of the best albums of the year. Those unconvinced of his talent should check out... more » | Other threads

  • team party crash

    A Party: Diesel Sells The Tastemakers On 55DSL

    Last night Doree and camera-man Nikola Tamindzic headed to deep Greenpoint for a party celebrating the opening of the Manhattan 55DSL store. (See how that works now?) 55DSL is Diesel's younger, cheaper line, and so they got a big yellow schoolbus to ferry people from the store over the water to Studio B, where they could revel in sharing the evening with hundreds of their closest friends who looked exactly like them and listen to the British band Klaxons do their dance-music thing. Nobody danced. They just stood around looking cool. Then they went back to Manhattan, where we hear that the after-party at Hiro Ballroom was "okay." The kids are so verbal.
    04/13/07
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    Comment by spielarama: drunk hipsters into nu-rave are really fun to be around....especially when they all stumble into your local hangout when you... more » | Other threads

  • brooklyn

    Beautiful Greenpoint Condo Is Toxic, 'Vice' Warns

    Well, look at that! 'Vice' is doing a public service announcement about all the nasty-ass crap that's in the air and soil in Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Not that that's news, exactly, but we do like their implication that anyone buying one of those lovely million-dollar lofts springing up in the neighborhood is just asking for a great big case of cancer. They've got the obligatory quote from the hardened longtime Greenpoint resident, who tells the camera, "If I had that type of money I would be so out of here it wouldn't even be funny." Of course, they can't resist introducing the whole thing with a quickie anthropo-cultural tour of the area: "If you've been kicked out of art school anywhere in America in the past three years you're more than likely tending bar somewhere in the neighborhood." Or pretending to, at least. —Doree More »
    04/09/07
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    Comment by GreenpointArchive: The oil story is 30 years old and was never hidden. The clean up has been going on since the... more » | Other threads

  • galleycat

    Please Use AvantGuild Monies To Buy A Clue

    An article about how Marisa Meltzer and Kara Jesella came to write their almost certainly awesome book How Sassy Changed My Life is over at Mediabistro, and though it's not available to the common folk due to their AvantGuild paywall, Ron Hogan of Galleycat gives a sense of its contents: "As Meltzer describes the process, 'It's one of those things where you can't believe your job is to sit and drink tea in Green Point and discuss Kim Gordon and the 90s, and her incredible importance.' Hell, I'm practically an expert at all that, except the Green Point part; clearly my problem is that I've been giving it away... " Disturbing as the thought of Ron Hogan "giving it away" is, it's not the most disturbing thing about that sentence. Green Point? Is this some nefarious Greenpoint rebranding that's underfoot? It's enough to make someone want to move to Gowanus. Er, Red Hook. Redhook? More »
    03/29/07
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    Comment by RonHogan: "Disturbing as the thought of Ron Hogan 'giving it away' is..." For the record, no one tried. See? I AM an expert... more » | Other threads

  • the poles

    Greenpoint In Laziest Riot Ever Over Polack Slur 'Toon

    New Yorker editor David Remnick told the Daily News that the joke in this recent cartoon is that 'Zbigniew' is difficult to pronounce. But residents of Brooklyn's 'little Warsaw' beg to differ. "The people from different nations, they drink, they get drugs; so why did they make the joke about Polish people?" asked Greenpoint music store owner Anna Doda. The New Yorker's form letter response says that "the tacit assumption ... is that the child is not of Polish origin." Oh really? When contacted for comment, the group of red-faced bums who sit in a pile of their own filth on the corner of Greenpoint and Manhattan Avenues all the time getting into drunken fights, singing, and occasionally crying, were like, "Bleaarrrrrghhhhh!" So... yes? Wait—no? More »
    02/22/07
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    Comment by Seeräuber Jenny: If the caption had said: "My parents named me 'Mawrdew Czgowchwz...,'"* it might have been funny. *For pronunciation, search for... more » | Other threads

  • greenpoint

    Polacks vs. Hipsters: IT'S ON

    Wonder how our fave Greenpoint gentrifier, Haverford alum David Langlieb, feels about those damn Polacks' latest efforts to rain on his gentrification parade. At a meeting last week about concerts in McCarren Pool, neighborhood activists, some of whom weren't even Polish, ganged up on a Parks Department representative over last year's indie-rock-heavy lineup, "a problem he hoped would be solved through outreach to Colombian pop and Polish music promoters." But some activists were not to be mollified:
    The triumvirate of Estrada and neighbors Stephen Szczepanek and Harrison Williams, who were also on-hand, repeatedly stated that a total moratorium was the only solution. "These concerts have ruined our quality of life," Szczepanek said. "We have to close our windows, and [even then], the glass shakes. We want all the noise to stop."
    We'd like to propose a kielbasa throwdown between Langlieb and Szczczczczpanek, to take place in McCarren Pool, at a time to be determined, as this is the only way we'll ever know who the real men of the neighborhood are. More »
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    Comment by flyover: mmmm My mom makes homemade periogis twice a year - it takes her all day but they are THE SHIT. ... more » | Other threads

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