Comments about hipsters

There are 23 comments about "hipsters"

Roger: I'm an artist who is not a hipster. I am moving further east in Bushwick because the rent is cheaper for what you can get, as I'm saddled in debt. I'm half Peruvian......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

rachael: hmmm... many of the comments i've read have either amused me or angered me...but I'll go on anyway... i'm a brooklyn native and originally from east flatbush. my parents left there to move to long island [for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Bushwick Native: Jaybay: What a fool you are moving into Bushwick. You're probably paying a ridiculous sum of money to live in a rat and crime infested neighborhood. Don't think it'll be the next Williamsburg just yet.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

dougieESQ: Bushwick AKA: East Williamsburg...yeah, no thanks. Keep drinkin' the kool-aid hipsters while I stay put in greenpoint....

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

anon (pool-68-237-28-85.ny325.east.verizon.net): yummy taco is the best junk food in BK. Perhaps its the hipsters that are bad and not the food....

in response to: Building Slice by Peter

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: Part IB - Birth - Billyburg's First Hipsters Came From.....Bushwick: Bushwick was mainly pastoral in pre- and post-Revolutionary War Kings County; salt meadows offered excellent grazing. Farming was central to the local economy. However, by the......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

dimeadozen: Thank you to everyone for this discussion especially The Truth and those following who elevated the discussion. I moved to Bushwick very recently and completely randomly. Although I work hard, support myself and am forced......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

colavitos ghost: it's funny about utility lines...if you go to any large, hip metropolitan center (think nyc, san francisco, toronto) you're sure to see loads of pathetic hipsters wearing t-shirts with utility poles/lines screen-printed across them--it's really......

in response to: Detroit Ave., Ohio City by little ukraine

.JAONE XTC: @ dave ..yes min lived with me for a while in 1991...i lived on suffolk st, in the les before all the trucker hat hipsters took it over...hope that helps.....

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

carlos mario: Since I'm writing about gentrification in Bushwick, this all is so interesting, especially the part of the story that The Truth mentions, as it relates to what I'm writing. Roger Starr, planned shrinkage, arson, disinvestment,......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

TheTruth: Yeah, Bushwick was raped. Your metaphor is better, Dave. Bushwick was hustled, pimped, beaten, raped, and left for dead. Now Bushwick is getting the bum-rush. The predatory loan-sharks are stealing houses out from......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Dave: You know, it occurred to me not long after I posted that some of what I wrote would seem offensive to positive Bushwick residents who had been working for a better neighborhood. (Such guiding lights......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

TheTruth: "I see it more as a class war than a race war." "...But that doesn't explain why, poor or not, the residents of Bushwick didn't have enough self-respect to take care of their neighborhood." Dave, did you......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

"Entitled" hipster: I understand the anger against the white people moving in. It does drive up the rent and price out the poorer families. While some are the entitled hipsters you so despise, some are......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

native tonguez: any of you native americans who lived in brooklyn 500 years ago? no? then you really dont have much right to talk. {gentrification} is a touchy subject. but whether youre white, black or latino, you were......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Jack: Heh, didn't realize HTML was disabled. So here's just some of what I wrote at http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2006/04/28/62 I lived in Bushwick for two years before moving to my current neighborhood in Brooklyn. And while living there,......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

LTO: stop jockin,I don't see your name in this review pee wee vermin,go on a vacation,bitch you're lucky I'm not out robbin you hipsters for cigarettes and girlfriends,back off,or should I say jack off?outta towners get......

in response to: Leeto & Beef by Peter

anon (ool-18ba5a46.dyn.optonline.net): gotta love the teen hipsters that are taking over the world and laugh at everything horrible. ...

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

Peter: i imagined it slowly and menacingly rolling through the {east village}, using its windows to condense/reflect/focus sunlight into death-ray beams that it will use to decimate any non post-post-{postmodern} {architecture} whilst zapping all the area......

in response to: Astor Place Silhouette by Peter

NET ONE 156 KRT: Words of the Prophets Take to the Rooftops by Cathy Hong SUBJECT — The Extreme Graffiti Hall of Murals LOCATION — Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens Les had no equipment but a backpack full of spray cans. (He......

in response to: Wherefore ART Thou, Ellis? by GGP

Peter: jeeff: why is neckface so notorious? well, how can i put this delicately... he had a few very visible ups in some really hot spots in brooklyn. add a few graf-scenester/williamsburg hipsters who flicked them......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

Deshant: Not all of Williamsburg has been gentrified as you can see. Talks of displaced SoHo brats and pregnant hipsters make up the Bedford Ave. population but the Orthodox Jewish and Latino population still keep the......

in response to: Walking in Williamsburg 2 by Peter