The rumors of Sweetheart Coffee's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Miracles do happen, and I'm happy to say I was wrong. Sweetheart has returned, looking and tasting just like it did before the big renovation:
New gentrification word of the day: Balconization. When bad things happen to good fire escapes. [NYS]
Two Boots loses another outpost. [Grub]
Coney goes 1950s Space-Age. [KC]
Upzoning, downzoning, Brooklyn rides the Bloomberg rollercoaster of redevelopment. [GL]
Smith Street's a good one--take a nice long walk along the viaduct. [FNY]
On the state of Chelsea today: "We’re watching the character of our neighborhood transform into an amorphous blob... Every neighborhood is starting to look like every other neighborhood." [CN]
Hipster is dead--long live the Edge condo! Check out this video of Williamsburg hipsters talking about hipsterism. [Gothamist]
You post these "hipster" pieces to taunt me, don't you? Do you know how much effort it takes to not brain one of these people?
ReplyDeleteGood God, I cannot wait until a great wave of street shankings thins out this herd of douchebags.
Perhaps one Ray Ban-wearing youth sums it up best when asked if he's a hipster: "No, I'm from Manhattan. I think hipsters are usually just from the Lower East Side..."
ReplyDelete^ Huh???????
He must have been misquoted. Nobody can be that stupid.
At least I hope not.