We've always wondered what would happen if a cybercrime dragnet collided with artsy Brooklynites. Earlier this week, denizens of one Williamsburg loft complex found out as the feds raided their weed-laced bohemian paradise.
Sunday brought a dipper (not skinny) to the Central Park Reservoir, but Monday brought something a little more death-defying and artful to the realm of public disturbances in the sweltering city: an aerialist on the Williamsburg Bridge tower!
Ah, spring! When a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of licking his dominatrix's boots in McCarren Park. A videographer at Brooklyn's hippest park caught the lovebirds—and the nonreaction of their neighbors—and uploaded it to (what else?) the "Animals & Pets" section of YouTube. Obviously, we've got copious
In the cutthroat market for Trend Stories Centered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, it pays to be the early bird. Not only does the neighborhood, populated by desperately trend-hungry fauxhemians, constantly cycle through the very latest microtrends; but its status as America's prototypical "hip neighborhood" means that…
This government budget crisis has produced at least one very welcome offshoot for Barack Obama: It gives him an excuse to cancel a family vacation to lame Colonial Williamsburg. Maybe that's been the goal all along?
What's the Internet's scariest hivemind like in real life? A bunch of geeky twenty-somethings hanging out in a bar in Brooklyn. This is what I learned last night at the first official meetup for the notorious message board 4chan.
A Duane Reade with a beer bar in it? That's so Williamsburg hipster Brooklyn and other buzzwords!
"If you don't have a bartender at your party, you're a loser," said a guy whose job is "to get models and Saudi royalty into hot clubs," to an NYT Style reporter at a party in a cramped Williamsburg apartment.
Nutria are really nasty creatures, like a mutant gerbil crossed with a subway rat. So it was only a matter of time before nutria fur became a fashion trend. But did you know it's the most "guilt-free" of all fur?
An irate Williamsburg, Brooklyn resident has posted a friendly-but-pointed note on their building's front door, asking a neighbor, whoever it may be, to stop blasting Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" music album in the middle of the day. Seriously. Stop it.
One intrepid reader found Madonna at S Fifth St. and Marcy Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn today shooting scenes for her upcoming movie W.E.. He even filmed a video of her! Our Stalker game has officially been stepped up.
A fire at the 1st Avenue L station has halted service to and from Williamsburg, so now's our chance to pull up Manhattan's anchors and sail away from it forever. Williamsburgians stuck on the island can be put to work.
At 7:49PM last night, the New York Observer made a discovery: "There are different kinds of hotness." Sometimes you want to bang a clean lady. And sometimes you want to bang a "dirty girl," as epitomized by Peaches Geldof, apparently.
Here's to Williamsburg: from gritty industrial backwater to artist haven to fauxhemian playground to yuppie Disneyland, in only a few short years. There's no use fighting it any more, rebel kids. The "boutique hotel with rooftop pool" is coming.
Fed up with "Yuppies"—and the city officials who "allow them into the neighborhood"—some lunatic is injecting Krazy Glue into random bike locks in fauxhemian Williamsburg, for justice. "No bike is safe." Goodness. [Brooklyn Paper; Pic via]
This map of Brooklyn shows the neighborhoods broken down by which type of ethnic cuisine dominates based on the Village Voice's restaurant guide. We're surprised Williamsburg isn't colored cheap-pizza-slices-and-taco-trucks. Here's the one for Manhattan. [Very Small Array, via]
Now that home sales are plunging again and prices are set to plummet, it's time to take advantage of the opportunity to buy yourself a brand new home somewhere terrible. Which of these hellacious real estate nightmares do you prefer?
In a magical neighborhood called Williamsburg, old meets new, religious meets artistic, cultures combine to create a wondrous...ehhh. Old Italians and young Fauxhemians behaving stereotypically, dig it!
Bedford Avenue accessories-and-trinkets shop Catbird seems to have been burgled recently by a tiny accidental crook. On their blog, the store published this mea culpa from a child who walked off with a locket without paying.
