WHO CARES ABOUT BROOKLYN HIPSTERS?
JUST A BUNCH OF LOSERS THAT CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE WHERE THEY REALLY WANT... MANHATTAN!

and that was when brooklyn became uncool again

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Wasn't "the moment" in Willaimsburg about 5 years ago?

a hipness meter?

Neighborhoods come and go, but ridiculous quotes from douchebag developers are timeless.

Well, I live on the far south side of the north side, and I can say this: I am way cooler than any of you hipster douches who post here all the time about how you couldn't get tickets to some hipster douche Jack White/Editors co-headlining gig at Southpaw. Seriously, go suck a ball... douches.

woohoo! long live losers in camo pants and trucker hats who think they're artists! hint: sometimes gritty really only means dirty.

Anyone who knows anything about what's great about williamsburg (history, character, dirtiness) wouldn't want anything to do with those condos.

And they don't seem to be filling up too fast.

F*ck Williamsburg! Now and forever!

What idiot is going to pay $950K for 1,500 sq feet condo apartment overlooking MaCarren Park! Can I sell you another piece of property in Brooklyn. It won't sustain. But the developers will try and ruin the whole thing. As a polishborn-american who's seen the change in the area since the early 70's and actually swam in McCarren Pool it will be interesting how the next 10 years develop (pun intended). Cross McGuniness Blvd, that's where the moment is being created now.

bayridge is the place to be...no doubt...Foley keeps it real.

None of them are no longer hip. Too many transient hipsters have moved here. They want their Whole Foods, they want their Trader Joes. Now my NYC looks like the midwest.

You transient tourists will never be true New Yorkers.

I personally challenge everybody in Williamsburg to a game of volleyball against me and my gang from Prospect Heights to prove once and for all that we're the best neighborhood in Brooklyn. See you on the court suckerzzzzz!

They both have their merits. Who gives a shit anyway? Live where you want, live where you are comfortable, live in a place that makes you happy, not because someone else wants tells you it's cool to live there.

the douchebag who wrote that lives in williamsburg. carroll gardens wins.

I'm staying in manhattan. who needs to live in a neighborhood where a bunch of rich kids are trying to hide their trust fund status? at least the people around me seem to be working for their earnings.

Staten Island kids. Get while the gettin' is good.

For quality of life Park Slope beats Williamsburg, Carrol Gardens & the LES. Better restaurants, stores, Park (Prospect), and a growing local music (Southpaw, Barbez, Brooklyn Lyceum, the Hook) & fashion (5th ave) scenes. But the best part is when you're there it feels like an actual neighborhood instead of some wanna-be hipster cliché from 1999.

It's so cute when some "native New Yorker" namechecks "trucker hats." It's like saying us ladies still wear bustles.

huh, so the Hook is now in Park Slope?

"At least the people around me seem to be working for their earnings."

Now, what kind of research are you doing to prove this? The way they dress? Do you care so much about this that you observe your neighbors to see if they look like they are working for their earnings? I think it's laughable when Manhattanites accuse Williamsburg of being a community of trust fund kids when Manhattan is home to NYU and Columbia, two of the biggest pools of trust fund children in the entire city.

can't well all agree that many in new york have so, so, so much money that they didn't work personally for? all throughout the lovely boroughs of manhattan and the western edge of faire brooklyn? does it make a difference? is it better to work very, very, very hard as a corporate lawyer for monsanto than to live a life of relative leisure thanks to your daddy doing the hard, corporate lawyer-ing? and anyway, fuck this, what does this have to do with bloc party!!!

this entire discussion is hilarious.

I'll tell you what this has to do with Bloc Party: Some of the people with so, so, so much money in this city are going to pay scalpers handsomely to get tickets to the Bloc Party show at McCarran Pool, shutting out some people who merely have so, so much money.

Hip? hipness??
As a person who lived in the North(Williamsburg) and now in the South(Bay Ridge), I have to say that seeing the pain etched in peoples faces in Williamsburg was enough to make me laugh, being a synical Scotsman. By pain, read confusion into whether their clothes/hair/bag/hat was in tune with the latest hipness wart on the arse of some so called scene setter. Go look up Individual in the dictionary.

I did not post the statement about Williamsburg, on May 17
Spooner oldham

I did not post the statement about Williamsburg, on May 17
Spooner oldham

please remove all statements in my name from your site,
as I never made the statements in the first place.
Thanks,
Spooner Oldham

please remove all statements in my name from your site,
as I never made the statements in the first place.
Thanks,
Spooner Oldham

unless there's someone out there with the same name,
I've never posted anything on this site until now.

Spooner Oldham

unless there's someone out there with the same name,
I've never posted anything on this site until now.

Spooner Oldham