northside and southside williamsburg were most recently artist, polish and puerto rican nabes of brooklyn that are now filled up with wealthy white suburban kids aka the hipsters. beyond that, certainly there is plenty of inspiration here for making ohio's gentrifying urban nabes fun & attractive places. before the pics if you are having any trouble with the 'ol hipster moniker, this info link may help  :laugh: :

http://www.hipsterhandbook.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

new stuff sprinkled around

 

 

 

 

 

 

this tavern was owned by mae west's family & she grew up here

 

 

 

 

the uk's streetsy was here

 

typical of industrialized stuff bet bedford (the main drag) and the east river

 

kent ave runs along the east river

 

 

 

 

 

lots more graf around

 

 

park on the river

 

 

 

 

williamsburgh bridge

 

wow a really old one is left here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some of the polish nabe hangs on here and there

 

 

solo ping pong con cerveza

 

green pockets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice idea

 

 

 

i love old store/barber shop fronts like this, they are getting rarer

 

iconic russian orthodox church on mcarren park

 

 

massive construction is happening all around mcarren park

practically a whole new city's worth of apt buildings, it's jolting to see

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice siding!

 

old mcarren park pool is used for music concerts

the city is going to bring it back online as a pool someday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now there is a view  :clap:

 

 

let's get a bodega in here before the end of part one  :laugh:

 

and a slice joint

 

 

you can bet this realtor is busy

 

*** stay tuned for more of hipster :wink2: heaven in part two ***

 

Wow looks like a really cool place. I like that yellow condo tower that's going up. The definition the hipsterhandbook gives is similar to one of the definitions on urbandictionary.com I remember the less than 2% bodyfat reference. So true. also referring to them as the "next evolutionary step from emo" lmao.

hey david did you miss the one i put in just for you? hint=#7 up from the bottom. heh.

hey david did you miss the one i put in just for you? hint=#7 up from the bottom. heh.

Gnarls Barkely!  :]

no doubt that gnarls show was deck!  :mrgreen:

 

I went party-hopping there last Friday night and was back for more Sunday, Jesus, what a bunch of a clowns.  Everyone looks the same and the feeling is tense.  The scene on the L platforms is absolutely comic (I'm sure someone is making a clandestine documentary).  I remember going to visit some artists there in 2000, there was tumbleweed blowing around, people were still renting entire floors of the warehouses for like $800/mo.  Last time I was in the neighborhood in 2003 there was some action but since then the transformation is absolutely incredible.         

Well, another NYC neighborhood bites the dust. Williamsburg is just the latest in the never-ending cavalcade of once "marginal" (read working class/ethnic/or light industrial) areas to fall prey to the predatory real estate industry. Following in the footsteps of Soho thirty years ago (now basically a shopping and tourist district for rich Eurotrash), and the East Village (overrun by young yuppie wannabes who twenty--even ten--years ago would have never dreamed of living in an area so "dangerous"-- and who have driven the rents up to obscene levels. And don't get me started on what a despicable frat-boy party mob scene the weekends have become!), Williamsburg was an escape for legitimate artists looking for relatively inexpensive studio/living space, fleeing the outrageous costs of Manhattan. I hope these self-styled "hipsters" realize that unless they become investment bankers they too will be priced out of the neighborhood in due time (unless, of course, daddy gave them an especially big trust fund--which, I suspect, is how half of them afford to live there in the first place!)

Is this the neighborhood where Last Exit to Brooklyn was set?

^ jeff "last exit" was set in 1950's red hook, brooklyn.

 

you can see a few pics of the red hook waterfront in the ny water taxi thread i did earlier, that was a water taxi stop. funny thing is that red hook today is one of the places the artists went to when they left these now gentrified nabes of williamsburg.

Hipsters will ALWAYS follow the artists, and red hook is already absorbing some of the williamsburg crowd.  interstingly enough, i have a friend who just moved to Manhattan from the Burg b/c it is getting so overpriced.