my additions to NYelectric's list:
i wear "defend brooklyn" t-shirts, when those shirts were made at the request of hood kids in direct response to me moving into their neighborhoods,kicking them out, and raising rent prices in a 20 block radius.
i go to the rub or spank rock parties, or listen to M.I.A. or chromeo for street cred.
i wear matching basketball jerseys and nike dunks, but couldn't tell you what "NBA" stands for.
i can't stand guidos because they are, like, sooo cheesy.
i rail against the presence of the NYPD at the bedford avenue L, yet that substation was built there specifically to protect me after we moved in en masse.
i haven't traded my virginia / wisconsin / michigan / washington / oregon license plates for new york plates cause, hey, you never know when NYC will getthe best of me.
i hate park slope because of all the damn yuppies. what has the neighborhood become!
i tell my friend to take "spontaneous" myspace pics of me every two minutes.
i treat old time polish, italian, or puerto rican brooklynites in my neighborhood like old relics, with a mixture of derision, kindness, curiosity, andindifference.
i brought my midwestern accent with me, and roll my eyes at anyone who "tawks like this."
i cross the street and hope nobody harasses me when all the thug kids get out of HS 640.
i have one prominent, well done tattoo on my arm, and make sure that it gets exposure in myspace pics, or when i'm sitting at the bar at K&M.
And Sheed, I don't know much about Southpaw; certainly not enough to truly abhor it, but generally walking by it annoys me. Park Slope indie yuppies, and some hipsters is mostly what I see. But since my father owns a restaurant and a bar on 5th avenue seeing these people is nothing new, and completely unavoidable for me.
there are actually some pretty cool shows there from time to time. saw the "white rapper show" finale there,
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(and the crowdwas mostly hip hoppers), seen ?uestlove and other hip hop artists perform there, too. i live on the border between sunset park and park
slope (18th street and 5th avenue), and the neighborhood is a mixture between puerto rican hood kids who mind their own business, yuppies from manhattan, andhipsters, and of course the old timers.
My understanding of "scene" is that it refers to kids that are into punkrock, hardcore and metalcore. That's what I think of when I hear scene. The border delineating that from the "hipsters" seemed to be blurring last time I was in Williamsburg.
interestingly, a lot of hardcore kids who got disillusioned and left the hc scene drifted into the electroclash and no wave stuff that hipstersflock to.
hipsters != hippies
not equal more like their parents were hippies...
he was using programmer notation; in other words, hipsters do not equal hippies.
Being that I live in the East Village and see hipsters all the time, my question is, how do they make money? B/c they don't have regular jobs.
parents' trust funds for the $4500 lofts.
0-15 years? Unless there's a recession I'm going to say 8-10 years tops. Between the Nets stadium and what they're doing to Coney Island, well, don't even get me started. If everything goes as planned in 8 years there will be no more Brooklyn.
i used to fear the same thing, but trust this -- as much as hipsters despite manhattan and its glitz and conformist commercialism, manhattan is their umbilicalcord. they will never feel comfortable moving as far away as bensonhurst, brownsville, or east new york.
So hipsters are stereotypically racist?
not at all, but it's mostly caucasian folk with a few token asian (mostly japanese imports), black friends here and there.
