After being bombarded with this story, I had to say something about it. It’s about the owner of the well known bar in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn called the Kettle Black who is inviting with open arms “people from Nebraska, Ohio and California who wear the hipster uniform” to a Midwestern themed beer garden he plans on opening soon in the neighborhood. Are you fucking kidding me? These “uniformed hipster” people already have a billion fucking bars, gardens, cafes and restaurants that they’ve opened for themselves in North Brooklyn; and Bay Ridge is also packed with plenty of places to drink as it is so this all seems unnecessary to me. Why target them? Well yeah, obviously money – you mention the words craft-beer, garden, and Midwest and these try-hards might come down with their well known deep pockets; but it just seems wrong to purposely try to attract these parasites to a hipster-free hood.
Link: The Brooklyn Paper: Bay Ridge getting a hipster bar.
Why not just say you are opening a beer garden and see who shows up? Do we really need emaciated Brawny Men on estrogen – drunk and nasally shrieking into the night about some obscure book that they skimmed through to sound like intellectuals or talking about some weak ‘post-modern’ art gallery they went to in Bushwick earlier that day? Do we really need a thick eyeglass convention to be congregating on the corner in painted on jeans; smoking their healthy, additive free hand rolled cigarettes talking about music nobody has heard of? Do we really need creepy, bearded, bed-head hair-do transplants staring at us with smug because we have Brooklyn accents – in BROOKLYN OF ALL PLACES?!?!?!?
But then I started thinking after discussing this with a couple of friends and reading through some comments: Will hipsters even bother traveling across the entire borough just for the same craft beer they can get in their gentrified neighborhoods? And I don’t get this ‘craft-beer’ bullshit; it’s bitter, flat, overpriced and after about an hour ends up in the same fucking place the Bud and Corona do – the toilet. Bay Ridge is only accessible by the R train which runs local and is a bitch to get to from North Brooklyn. Then you have the hips and yups in Park Slope and even some that have wiggled their way into Sunset Park that do have access to the R – but they also have tons of establishments to go to instead of this place. The few that do come to ‘explore’ will probably be turned off by the locals because you know hipsters dislike the locals of any city they pioneer into. So anyway, I’m not too worried at this point but if this bar opens the flood gates for droves of these ironic interlopers to come and start colonizing and ruining Southern Brooklyn, I will have my soldiers at every exit on the R line from 59th St to 95th St waiting with baseball bats and tire irons to greet them. Have a nice day.
Now you will know my hell. They’re torn up Fort Greene slowly and unfortunately your neighborhood follows. I think most natives thought here, in Fort Greene, that yuppies and hipsters weren’t crazy enough stay long, but we were all wrong. They stood here and shoe no sign of slowing down. The ones going into Bar Ridge are the scouts. If its good enough the rest will follow. I’m sure they’ll love the fact that only one train goes there. It’ll make them feel like its exclusive…
Sorry for the grammatical errors *They’ve, *Show, *Bay
It’s easy to make grammatical errors when you’re PISSED OFF! You are forgiven!
Wow. That is the first time I have seen this response to incorrect grammar. Odd.
Usually the people who trip up on minor spelling or grammatical errors in forums or boards are people trying to make an argument that they aren’t actually capable of making. IMHO, it’s an unintelligent, last ditch effort to take someone’s opinion on because most people with a comprehension level above 3rd grade should be able to figure out that the person hit a wrong key or two here and there. Big deal. I think they should take the opinion on in context or stfu.
And at the risk of being called a grammar Nazi, Bar Ridge was correct the 1st time. : )
Craft beer is ANOTHER one of those things that hipsters have latched on to. Don’t dismiss it so utterly; the best craft beers are leagues above bullshit like Bud and Corona. Now every moron from parts unknown thinks they can make “craft beer” ’cause they saw a commercial for Sam Adams or something.
Should petition food/drink critics to give this place a horrible rating so the owner has to close up shop.
Yep, those fucktards ruin everything they latch on to.
You got that shit straight, Shig! Real craft beer is nectar brewed as it was before cheap mass production techniques became the norm. Most of the newer brews are drek made by Joshy Come Latelys who think back story and old timey labels make good ale. I drink them for one reason: TASTE! I don’t care about organic, sustainability or fair trade, hell I don’t care if they brew it from baby ducks using trained monkey labor as long as it tastes good!
Same things go for smokes. I’m really pissed that fucking hipsters roll their own (and I’m not talking incest) like I’ve been doing for 42 years. They can’t even roll, most of them roll Camels, big humps in the middle. Mine look like dowel rods. Besides they tend to roll Drum which tastes like you’re smoking dirty socks!
And don’t even get me started on coffee! Gibber, growl, gnash, aaarrrggghh! ” All right, Mr. 4finger, just put down the lamp stand and we’ll get you your meds!”
“…put down the lamp stand…”
LOL!!!
There should be signs like this to keep them in their gentrified “Nabs”
http://www.dweebist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/5148404812_03f92b8fd0_b.jpg
There were those “no fedora” signs going around Montauk this summer. It’s in this article, which is how I found out about the best blog ever! http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/fashion/montauk-feels-the-effects-of-too-many-hipsters.html?pagewanted=all
Just looking at that picture, I simply lost it. Seriously, what happened?
I remember when I used to get jealous of rich people from watching “Lives of the Rich and Famous”. I used to wish I could work out all day and hang out at the pool with tanned muscles, attracting the hottest girls and drive a Maserati, or have a chauffeur and a stretch limo with a bunch of hot bimbos in the back.
Now I look at these idiots and I ask:
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO RICH PEOPLE???
I mean, not one of them is any way good looking (or if they are, they sure hide it under frumpy clothing and nauseous tattoos). Did a NAMBLA convention just get out? Because all I see is a bunch of pathetic creepy pedophiles who can’t get laid at the Southern Baptist Convention with a stack of $100 bills.
And then Stevie and Special Edd think we’re all jealous of their zany and quirky lifestyles. We’re not. I lived in New York at a time when real zany and quirky people lived here and I can tell you, these people are neither. They waste their parents’ money to live in worse conditions than I lived in when I was homeless. They have destroyed every kind of music, art, beer and sporting activity with their childish fantasies the average kid grows out of by age 7. Worst part is, thanks to them, anyone who’s not a millionaire or an IT guy can’t afford to live within 1,000 miles of any major city in the US anymore.
Where’s my gun?
Yet another thing these come garglers have ruined for me! I now feel I have to justify my choices of headgear, facial hair, smokes, beer and coffee so that regular folks don’t mis- demograph me! Not a hipster, just hip. Matter of fact I knew the man that invented hip, came down outta Detroit in ’37!
I have a good good friend who drinks PBR (because that’s what he grew up on in his blue-collar, mechanic-shop-owning family, plus it’s cheap and he drinks a lot of beer) and he too occasionally wears a fedora-type thing on his head. He is in no way hip or a hipster. He hates hipsters as much as everyone here! It’s sad when douchebags ruin things for everyone, no? I love many “craft beers” yet I was not offended by the use of the term here because I know what it means in this context. The thing is (and I’m considering writing my own blog about this), it’s not the choices they make, it’s the *way* they go about everything. Trampling all over everyone and everything and being pretentious idiots.
Don’t change. Just be yourself and people will know you are not a jerk.
That’s always been my policy, Runningsoprano. I’ve been mistaken for a hippy, a hillbilly, a biker, Amish and a geriatric hipster in my long and checkered career, but the last one hurts the worst! Maybe we could use hand stamps like on The Simpsons: NOT INSANE.
Thanks for your kind words. Nice people on this site.
You saying people here are nice has got to be a first for me reading. Usually, anyone who posts here is called bigots ( never racists, since most of the pokes are often at the usual suspects which are trust fund suburban white kids from Minnetuckyhioana ), homophobes, guidos, neanderthals, old, hate mongering, low class, trash, etc etc etc etc blah blah blah but rarely ever ‘nice’. Usually that’s from spoiled, gender confused, try hards that like to threaten to rape peoples wives because there’s so much hipster ‘hate’ here or threaten to get the site here shut down because there’s so much ‘violence’ LOL They need little t-shirts that say,”Words hurt me, not actions!”
Hey FUWI, I have found that you get back what you put forward on this site. If you approach with attitude you get flamed. I have disagreed with postings in the past, explained my position politely and have been answered with equanimity and good humor by the regulars, even DH himself. I think it has been proven that the rank and file of Diehipster regulars are not reflex haters but haters of specific behavior of a recognizable sub-species of urban assholes.
And speaking of urban assholes, has anyone noticed that Sustainable Steven has never replied to me directly, even though I repeatedly tell him to go home and finish sucking his daddie’s dick? Just wondering.
Ruining things is the one area where those parentally funded ersatz rebels actually excel. As we all know, hiptards cannibalize elements of pre-existing subcultures and make them their own (i.e. RUIN them). I can remember a time when real “Bohemians” and real quirky or “out there” folks lived in places like Adams Morgan in DC or could found hanging out that corner coffee shop near the end of M Street in Georgetown in DC, a block away from the “Exorcist Stairs”. Those “genuine oddball” types were always fun to talk to.
Yeah, same thing with the Village. Before it became staff housing for the Disneyland north we euphemistically call Times Square. North Brooklyn seems to be turning into this:
http://www.newser.com/story/106753/in-creepy-disney-town-two-violent-deaths-in-week.html I guess somebody went off their meds.
I know I always am!
I have a real hard time buying into the idea, not that anyone here is perpuating it and quite the opposite of course, that these self-aggrandizing, narcissists hold to and that is their whole “..we’re like the Bohemians yahhh…”
No, you’re not. And here’s the very important distinctions between you and them: For one, they usually had a high level of talent and vision and accepted, even encouraged, critique. For two, they did not have massive trust funds to spend through with abandon and at unprecendented speeds, they embraced obscurity from the get-go seeing it as the nature of things ( even most engineers will be ‘obscure’ if you’re talking ‘fame’ as a goal post ) and accepted recognition if it came along as any sane person would, and they also tended to accumulate in very competitive markets in groups of about five people, not hundreds of thousands. The hipster is playing it safe from the very beginning and before they’ve crossed the border into California or NYC: they have lots of money, a safe neighborhood to stay in, and a ready built crowd excited for their arrival. There’s no real risk involved for them at all. They came with safety nets around them from every direction. What risk? None in comparison to previous generations of hopeful talents. They’re not exactly Jim Carroll types and nowhere near bearing the life of an early ‘bohemian’ such as Van Gogh. Ha! Imagine some hipster being told,”With the wave of this wand you can become a TRUE artist. And one day, everyone will know about it.” And the knuckleheaded imposter agress excitedly and is suddenly thrown directly into the shoes of ol’ Vincent. You’d be able to hear their screams echo through eternity and it would be,”This is soooo meannnnnnnnnn wahhhhhhhh.”
Sorry for my wind bagging…I should putter off to bed.
Press on and instill that H.B.H whenever possible.
Bay Ridge is FUCKED!
Bloomberg flipped on the “Fucktard Switch” and now the flood begins!
Out of state license plates flood Brooklyn and there’s no abatement in sight!
The New York we know is fucking dead…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
LMAOOOO @ “Fucktard Switch.” True my friend. I read the 2010 NYC Census. There was an influx of 75% more white people into Brooklyn from 2000 to 2010. Want to take a gander at who these statistics correlate to? You betcha, hipster/yupster/tourists. Brooklyn has been invaded.
Casatelli should go total sell-out and do a bus tour for German, Dutch and Spanish tourists flocking to Brooklyn to see the hipster freakshow. They did this in the 1960s in Haight-Ashbury.
“Well folks, to the left you will see Sustainable Sam and Disheveled Dylan re-purposing a popped raft to float down the Gowanus Canal at 2 in the afternoon. Please don’t touch them as they have not bathed in weeks. Pictures are OK if they agree to do an ironic pose for you.”
The only difference is, at least there was real music and art being created in SF (although there were probably mostly posers). And at least they wore psychedelic clothes and they all looked different. How would anyone tell Sustainable Sam and Disheveled Dylan apart? “Dylan is wearing the tan plaid shirt while Sam is wearing the ecru tan shirt.”
It did have some great music and fostered the “psychedelia” movement of the 60s. But there were a lot of flyover try-hards who also flocked to S.F. and grew their hair long, dropped acid and tried out the hippie lifestyle for fun before moving back and becoming stockbrokers.
Casatelli should get his joint on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Maybe do a quirky, undiscovered sandwich. Like an artisinal organic kosher hot dog?
It’s already been done: Best’s the ko-ko-kosherest! (last time I checked cows are 100% organic life forms).
I’ve always found it funny that back when they were in their boring suburbs hipsters couldn’t wait to get out of there yet wherever they land all they do is re-create the very burbs they ran away from.
“We hate being stifled in these uptight, yuppie burbs. Let’s move to a cool, open & free place like Brooklyn.” Then it’s like letting frat boys loose in Vegas with dad’s Amex black card. Rooftop gardening, beekeeping, tats all over, “art” installations and childhood games galore. Eating rats as “fine” dining (this one may be the most disgusting). Pretending that they’re building something so unique in a place that’s been around for centuries. In other words, being complete clueless douchebags and show-offs.
That’s one of the many things that really irks me about them. Those idiots don’t know whether they’re coming or going.
Well we know why they do that Eduardo. In the suburbs, they’re boring pathetic losers. In the city, they’re like yah so quirky and the NYT falls over themselves to give these attention whores all the adulation they need to fuel their egos.
The desperate NYT staff probably thinks their parents are important and will donate money to the ailing paper.
they’re pods! how else can you explain the cankles, skinny limbs, dull stare, pale skin AND, don;t forget the nasal voice! c’mon, am i the only one who thinks this. it’s pretty scary–VERY scary.
I read that article with a dropped jaw. REALLY? Bay Ridge!? How can it be? But I think you are right DieHipster, they won’t take the R train the OPPOSITE way of Williamsburg. Once they get out and see the regular people and the inability to buy loose tobacco anywhere, they won’t come back anyway.
Once, on Facebook, a friend (a nice non-hipster) posted something about Brooklyn and in a comment, one of his friends wrote something about Brooklyn being the best place to live in the city (it was obvious that this commented was a transplant, or a “user” as I call them–if not a hipster.) I get so pissed when people say stuff like that because it means NOTHING! There are 37 zip codes in Brooklyn, how can you uniformly say it’s “the best” without A) having been outside of your one zip code, which is probably 11211 and B) having been to any other borough besides Manhattan? You can say “Park Slope is the best” or “Greenpoint is the best,” but unless you’ve actually been to every corner of Brooklyn (I have), you should just shut up. So I wrote: “I’m assuming you don’t live in East New York?” No response….. probably because they never heard of East New York.
P.S. I am not dissing East NY, my Uncle grew up there and I know there are lots of great things about it, but you KNOW there are no hipsters venturing through that neighborhood. Not enough overpriced restaurants and wine bars (and people of their color). In fact, I bet they’ve never heard of it! That said, if you told me 15 years ago people from the midwest were moving to Bed Stuy, I would not have believed you…….
If you ask a hipster what East NY is, they’ll probably give you a long look and come out with something like”Long Island.” Imbeciles…
Just tell them that they’ve probably never heard of it, and they’ll want to go there. But then they’ll probably get drunk and forget about it, just like they forget to listen to all of the old, good obscure musicians that they’ve probably never heard of.
I hate to break it to you, but they are slowly moving to East new York.
I know, it was mentioned in the New York Magazine article. .
I tried to type “weeps” but it didn’t work….. maybe this will.
Its funny how the the pussy ass suburb kids are trying to make us City Folk into pussy ass suburb folk . Within the next 5 years , Bay Ridge will be completely gentrified , and all us locals will have to either A)Move Out , B)Stay there and ‘collect’ many iphone 7′s as we can to pay our rent , or C) Beat the shit out of them reminiscent of the good old BROOKLYN DAYS while they’re still venturing into over here . If we don’t like something , we gotta fucking stop it before its too late. Boycotting shit , and just talking about it wont do anything . Its time to act now . We need to have an underground rally somewhere . And no bullshit . I grew up in Bay Ridge , i cant see it transform into something that it shouldn’t be . I remember being 9 years old walking through Greenpoint with my mother, thinking when will the mexicans be taking over the neighborhood . And now its been 10 years , and the exact fucking opposite happened .
Green point would be much better off with Mexicans, as they WORK and love their families. And aren’t worthless, loser, pitiful, dicks.
Eh, looks like the NYPD has checked in.
Mexicans are hardworking, good-virtued people. I don’t understand your beef.
I didn’t say anything bad about Mexicans , i was just pointing out how Mexicans were gentrifying the neighborhood way before the Hipsters came . And I’m not a cop , just a disgruntled young adult who fears about not being able to afford a place in Bay Ridge/ all of southern Brooklyn in the not so distant future .
Not to split hairs, but Mexicans by virtue of their socio-economic status are incapable of gentrifying a neighborhood. In order to gentrify, one must be a member of the gentry class. In other words, those who gentrify a neighborhood move into an economically depressed area they find interesting, jack up rents (both residential and commercial) and force out those living in this once economically depressed area. As a blanket statement, Mexicans are a decent, hardworking, honest group but they do not possess that kind of socio-economic power. If you mean to say that other groups moved out of a neighborhood because Mexicans moved in, then wer’re talking about another kind of sociological phenomenon.
I was speaking in context to what I believed in when i was 9 . But I agree with you 100%
I kind of got what you were saying Rage and also agree that, by and large ( so long as there’s no ties to MS-13 or Folk Nation or the Vacos or those b.boyz ) they are indeed very hard working people and often very kind if they’re shown kindness. I live in an area where itenerant farm workers are still in full effect to this day. But they also tend to come from all over South America and not just Mexico. While there are Mexicans here, there’s also Dominicans, Hondurans, and Venezuelans. They’re very famly oriented and enjoy fixing up the little cottage houses they can finally swing between them. The work they do in the fields is very hard and most either move with teh crops as they go or move their way up to working for the county, which is a lower middle class living for them they’re very happy about. Those home countries of theirs I mentioned are being torn apart by the corrupt police and the incredibly violent and abusive cartels and gangs that abuse the plain folk.
I had a cross eyed redneck complain to me once about how when they get their checks the first thing they do is start wiring money home ( only partial parts of their check because the economy for their families back home is so bad the money they send helps them stay alive and they are good sons who see that as their duty ) and the rest of the money goes to just living here. That whole ‘all hispanics are illegal immigrants tryin’ to ruint our country” hyperbole is trying to spin a complex problem as simple one, and at the expense of these hard working folks who just want a better life in the greatest country on the planet. Who can blame them? But yeah, they’re still so far down the social accpetance party list they don’t have the power of gentrification at all. But I love it when they opn authentic taco stands and sell rea tamales and they aren’t stingy about loading you up a big, fat burrito for the price ( far cheaper than Special Ethan’s Taco Bar ). Viva la Differience!!
LOL @ Special Ethan’s.
Wow this Thomas Casatelli guy is a total douchebag http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/1/br_kettleblacked_2011_01_06_bk.html
He only did 90 days. Must’ve had a good lawyer who wasn’t a hipster with a paralegal certificate from University of Phoenix.
Oh yeah, we’ve been waiting for Castelli to get what he deserves – a long jail sentence – but apparently he cut some deal. And now he thinks he’s going to turn this neighborhood into Hipster Haven South? FUCK NO! I do agree that few hipsters will make it all the way down here on the R, but you do see ‘scouts’ occasionally, who must be greeted with a friendly Bay Ridge welcome: “GET THE FUCK OUT OF BAY RIDGE, HIPSTER DOUCHEBAG!”
Give ‘em an inch and you’ll have their fixie cluttering the streets like Court Street.
Casatelli…………
Prototypical Brooklyn-Italian criminal. These people have a genetic predisposition to steal, lie, cheat and hate Anglo British and Anglo American society. Should have chalked up a big B on the coats of his lice infested grand parents when they got to ellis island.
Off your meds again, chief?
Flushing , once a day with full glass of water, preferably after a meal. Don’t miss days.
This article does not tell the whole truth. The money he did not report is something that is done by just about every bar in Brooklyn, albeit the entire city. And the money he paid his workers off the books for? Well ,they were their tips. Which he lets them keep without sticking his hands into like some of the more upper scale establishments throughout NYC.
This was a a smear campaign and one that Casatelli took the fall for after Sen. Golden insisted on names of the people who were involved in the fight with his nephew. Meaning, Casatelli didn’t turn rat.
I do agree that opening a hipster bar in Bay Ridge does suck though and in truth didn’t see this coming from the boys over at The Kettle. Maybe the guys who own CEBU.
Signed, a life long Brooklynite (Canarsie) who didn’t turn tail and flee to “NAH-SAW” County or “NEW JOISEE”
Look at these idiots waiting online for an iphone5. I gotta say America is doomed. One bearded hipster Occupy Wall Street guy is wiating for a phone to. Fast forward to 2 min.
Complete freak show – the circus must be in town again!
These folks looks like they have been poisoned in utero. I see varying degrees of autism here. You saw that blond bitch? Yikes!
Apple users are like a marketer’s wet dream. “Every year we can make a few ‘improvements’ and millions of these tards will plop down hundreds of bucks on a new model sight unseen.”
Want a good deal on an iPhone? Get the previous model. Now that all the idiots are upgrading, their previous toy won’t be worth much anymore. Plus the iPhone 4 is useless to them now as it only does 99% of what iPhone 5 does. I mean, besides calling, texting and taking pictures, what do you actually do with an iPhone anyway?
Aww Heck! I’ll just snatch one off a hipster.
I very much understand the frustration when a business owner tries to target a particular group that seems so abundant and overbearing in most areas. But a few facts… You pretty much hit the nail on the head about trecking ‘all the way’ out here… not because of transportation (plenty of buses run from cobble hill/park slope to here) but because not going to a spot right in their neighborhood is both inconvenient (even if there was a shuttle bus, not to give this guy ideas) and defeating the purpose of going out. Hipsters don’t fawn over Bay Ridge, they fawn over areas from Park Slope to the LES in Manhattan. But here is where you are blindsided… I’m a bay ridge native, I was born and raised here (yes, born in the neighborhood. Shout out to all my Victory babies). I come from a well-mannered, well-dressed family. What I have seen at places like Salty Dog and Lonestar absolutely disgust me. The old Pastels (now called Suite or Capri or whatever) is also a hotspot. None of these people are from Bay Ridge! They all come from Bensonhurst, wearing their poorly put together, trashy outfits with their language and attitudes to match. I’d love to go to a place that the regular bar goers who frequent Bay Ridge are turned off by. I look forward to being able to keep the trash in the garbage and roaming freely in a bar-atmosphere where other young girls don’t stare me down because I don’t have to be loud, curse, act obnoxiously to get the attention of the room.
I do understand your frustration with targetting a culture that is not native to the area… but factually, I am from the area and I know a few friends and I would LOVE the change of pace! I look forward to the opening. Something tells me that it will be a great spot for people like me who are also from the 11209, who will enjoy the atmosphere rather than the craft beer!
The unfortunate reality is this neighborhood will soon turn into another “sector”. Because of the absurd rents, (Park Slope Williamsburg etc…)they have been pushed out to make way for the worse demons…the yuppies. This has been the M.O. for MANY years. They have limited choices now, so what train or bus is near the area, really has no significance as it once did. In this twisted setup, $1800 a month is a bargain compared to $3000. I’ve gotten reports of them moving into Bensonhurst as well. That’s my sad commentary.
As long as they stay out of Queens…… (LIC doesn’t count, they have spill over from Greenpoint and it’s still not that bad there yet.)
Don’t hold your breath; the infestation is already in the works. I’m a lifelong Queens resident and the invasion is ever so insidiously being perpetuated upon the good folks of Queens. Astoria was the first to go as it was an already established residential/commercial neighborhood. But perhaps it was too “ethnic” and established for these Narnia-seeking leeches so they slithered on over to LIC, which really didn’t have a “flavor” as it was largely industrial (read: gritty and urban) so they set up camp there and put their Midwestern stamp on it. After that, they “discovered” the bars and wonderfully authentic restaurants of Sunnyside/Woodside/Jackson Heights. How lucky we are to have these urban pioneers to guide us.
Great, now these spank socks have discovered the 7 train and have since been seeping into the areas that were always the homes of working poor immigrants who are only trying to carve out a better life for themselves and their families. Wonderful. If we’re really lucky perhaps now Meghan and Caleb will take some of ma and pa’s monthly 401K subsidy check, price out a multi-generation family business and set up a fair trade organic coffee shoppe in the bowels of Corona. Surely, with a “Twister Tuesday/$8.00 Latte Night” incentive people will flock to get in the door. Yeah, that’s just what Queens has been missing.
I actually saw some dipshit busking on Austin Street in Forest Hills one night on my way home from work last year. He couldn’t understand why I would kick his “Karma Cap” out of my way as I tried to pass him; nor could he understand from where my vitriol was coming as I cursed out his useless ass. While I never saw his worthless ass again, the die has been cast. Now, Forest Hills touts several Hipster-friendly establishments such as an artisanal wine and cheese shop, a Bare Burger eatery, and a few Fro-Yo joints. There have also been beardo spottings in Kew Gardens and Briarwood. Ridgewood has already started the death rattle and before long, Middle Village, Maspeth and Glendale will follow.
RIP, Queens – one of the last bastions of working and middle class New York. You will be missed.
Christine, now you’ve depressed me…. I am in Sunnyside/Woodisde (for 10 years now) and there really aren’t that many there. I do see one or two now and then. More yuppies-with-strollers, which, as annoying as they are, I will take any day over the hipsters. It really is too ethnic–and Astoria never got much damage from them. More college/musician/actor types moved there, really. You are right about LIC, which is why those ridiculously expensive “luxury” buildings are there not.
Ridgewood is only getting popular because it’s SORT OF on the L line. A friend-of-a–friend hipster user from Kans-Iowa was complaining to my friend that she didn’t “feel safe” in Bed Stuy and now she’s looking in Ridgewood. She wouldn’t take my friend’s advice about Queens being affordable, “safe,” etc., so I think we are still OKAY, for now. Most of Queens is just not close enough to hipsterland by subway.
But seriously, they had better back off! We need a Queens army!
“Narnia-seeking leeches” Brava, Christine!
I used to live in Bay Ridge but moved to Briarwood because I needed a bigger place so my dad could move in. I couldn’t afford it anymore.
I haven’t seen too many hipsters here- mostly still a mix of yups, middle class, and hoods. I work in Forest Hills and I’ve seen a longboard attached to a filthy trust fund attention seeker or two on Continental. Was kind of hoping the Q23 driver wouldn’t see them until too late.
Bensonhurst is weakened, culturally speaking. The Italians have moved on to S.I. and New Jersey and have paived the way fro Koreans and Chinese who are not quite as territorial.
I think the whole hipster sterotype thing is starting to reach its apex. Lifelong Bay Ridger as well, and I don’t give a crap what gets opened here as long as it fills a need or is unique. For a guy to come out and target hipsters as his clientele is pretty dumb anyway. Threatening anyone that looks hipstery — even though I cannot stand most of them myself — for coming into our neighborhood is total neanderthal beyond comprehension. They will never populate BR, and I don’t want them to since prices will go up more than they are everywhere. Live and let live just a little bit. Have a beard, like obscure bands, trying to eat organic when I can, but proud of my Brooklyn accent, and completely resent Park Slopers who want ice cream banned, and the like. Doesn’t make sense to me to chase someone out of my neighborhood, the same way I would not want to get chased outta East NY while seeing where my mom grew up. That said, hipsters try to damn hard to be different and become Brooklynites so much that THEY are what outsiders now perceive as typical Brooklyners. My dream would be to open a shop in Williamsburg right smack on Bedford Ave that sells only native Brooklyn products and serves old time, original Brooklyn food while blasting Beasties, Neil Diamond and Doo Wop.
“Threatening anyone that looks hipstery — even though I cannot stand most of them myself — for coming into our neighborhood is total neanderthal beyond comprehension.”
You’ve taken the whole ‘hipster beating’ thing a little too seriously.
Hi Uncle Deuce, being an alternative-looking person myself I understand your take on this, but I think you have misunderstood the intent of this forum. It exists as a place where law abiding citizens can express their opinions through satiric exaggeration, not as a vigilanti cult that seriously advocates violence against other citizens. I would not have this done to me, therefore I would not do this to others no matter how much their behavior enrages me. But free speech guarantees us the right to express ourselves unless we advocate actual physical harm against a specific person or group. Sticks and stones, you know.
This site is a blow-off valve to keep us from actually doing the things we talk about in the real world, you know the one being taken over by ” Narnia-seeking leeches”.
Mehh, speak for yourself. I think you’re both hipsters, or cloesty, and therefore your opinions are somewhat suspect for a while. If you are hipsters, piss the fuck off.
All joking, of course.
Ha HA! See, a little poke in fun then an acknowledgement that it’s all in fun. That’s what I mean about nice people on this site, even when they give you the needle, it’s not necessarily an attack, just an expression of their feelings couched in humor! Keep it up, FUWI, you are one funny guy!
SNL’s not so subtle jab at hipsters.
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/recap_joseph_gordon_levitt_stars_eLZnfr0okAEyl9omn76m4H
Oh this is just glorious. *sarcasm* If this stupid beer garden happens, I hope that all the Ridge locals make it EXTREMELY uncomfortable for these fuckwads. Then of course, we’ll see reviews on Yelp, calling us “typical New Yorkers” because we aren’t accomodating their precious, bullshit needs. Ugh… I fucking hate them!!!
http://nymag.com/news/features/brooklyn-barclays-center-2012-10/
This article is all over the place. Diehipster.com gets a mention.
It may be all over the place, but I’ll admit that it does a great job at describing Brooklyn as a place to live, not as a vacation spot for bored and boring beardos. When the guy who makes spending money by running a catheter from his nose to his mouth and uses it to spray booze is the one screaming the loudest about “fucking hipsters”, that should tell you right there how tired everyone is of the little douchenozzles.
Thanks for this, I have seen it elsewhere but finally read it today–epic, but excellent. One of my favorite lines:
“Just last week, according to well-placed sources, a skinny-jeans-and-full-sleeve-tattoos couple were spotted bumping suitcases down the subway stairs at Broadway Junction, not all that far from 328 Chauncey Street, mailing address of one Ralph Kramden (né Herbert John Gleason, of Bushwick). Here, beyond the Evergreens Cemetery, final resting place of Lester Young and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, these hipster/crusties had found a home.” BROADWAY JUNCTION!?!? SERIOUSLY? I joked about East New York, above, but apparently I was wrong. Lord help us. Although, I suppose they could have been transferring to the A to go to JFK…..
Has anyone else noticed that the NFL is trying to appeal to hipsters with those annoying ad with the dweeb in an ugly ill-fitting suit and old-timey facial hair spouting about football? WTF?
Meant to say “annoying ads” of course.
No. But I saw a commercial for The Art Institute schools this weekend. Some mike stand physiqued beardo giving a tour to a bunch of scraf and newsboy cap wearing tryhards.
Funny how all the art shown was of a high level of quality yet most if not all of these talentless dweebs will demand a gallery show two weeks after graduating.
Isn’t the Art institute the last circle of Dante’s inferno – where you go when Lincoln Tech , Pennco and Devry laugh you out of the building?
Hey, so long as financial aid goes through, Art Institute will take anybody. Best of all, unlike most other for-profit universities, the inability to get a job after graduation doesn’t bother anybody. You’re now seeing lawsuits against the University of Phoenix from grads who were promised by their teachers and by administrators that they would have a job within 90 days of graduation, only to discover that having a University of Phoenix mention on a resume is almost as much of a career killer as writing that resume with your finger and your own shit. Art Institute grads, though, aren’t wracked with self-doubt and disgust at wasting that money when they’re unemployed three years later. It’s just that “nobody is ready for my genius.”
Frankly, I don’t know much about U. of Phoenix ‘cept for their onslaught of TV ads. I don’t understand the value given that most advanced degrees in business, HR and all the other professions I can’t stand can be gotten just as easliy through a major university.
Same goes for cooking schools There’s an Institute of The Arts in Philly. My wife holds events at a venue down the street from them. At any given time there are a bunch of disheveled, Institute cooking school students and instructors taking a smoking break.
I cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone – would pay money to go there. The CIA is understandable to an extent – they have the name. But whatever school you attend your gonna be working weekends, holidays and long hours for shite pay. It’s easier (and smarter) to get a job as a dishwasher at a four star hotel like The Ritz or Four Seasons
and if you show some initiative you will almost surely be trained to work the line. many MANY star chefs got their start like this.
AND THEY’LL PAY YOU TO LEARN.
Basically the U of Phoenix (and other “for profit’ colleges’”) are diploma mills – you give them money, noodle ‘n doodle your way through some contentless BS courses, and voila, you have a diploma. They’re like an undergraduate-level GED. The Feds are starting to go after the worst of them for scamming their GI Bill students.
I’m from Bay Ridge and still live there now, and the funniest part about this whole debacle is that I really don’t think people from Ohio and other parts of the Midwest are the purported hipsters frequenting Kettle Black that the owner speaks of – I’m afraid the dude is sadly mistaken. In reality, the people he thinks are from the Midwest are probabl just my friends and I, as well as numerous other 20-somethings from Bay Ridge who just don’t fit the usual Bay Ridge fashion stereotype most of us see around here (think Salty Dog). I’m sure he saw us there a few times (okay, okay, several times, but only when I was too lazy to walk to the Pigeons) in our “non-conventional” outfits and got some grandiose idea to open up a beer garden to appeal to all of us “non-natives”, since we were so very homesick for Ohio! (No.) This is fine, because I’ll frequent just about anywhere with booze and an outdoor area, and I’m actually a native Brooklynite (thank God) – and if my friends who don’t look like everybody else and I helped put this idea into his head, then hey now. It’s just foolish to make statements about whose actually living here when I don’t believe the owner had actual demographic facts to back these claims.The bar will do just fine, as most in Bay Ridge do. I’m not suggesting that there are no transplants in Bay Ridge, but let’s face it – this isn’t Williamsburg, this isn’t Bushwick, this isn’t even Park Slope, so let’s calm down. He can say he’s making a bar for the transplants or whatever he wants, but then the solution is quite easy – us natives just need to take the damn thing over. Duh.
You’re a native huh? but your friends are or aren’t from Ohio?
Didn’t you say something along the lines of ‘….dressing non-native…’.
Why wold a native dress non-native with all the other 20 somethings from Ohiolandia? For some reason, I smell fish in the air…
Um, no, my friends aren’t from Ohio. I WAS BORN, RAISED, AND STILL LIVE IN BAY RIDGE. Did you even read what I wrote? Apparently you didn’t have Mr. D for AP English at Fort. Either that, or you did poorly. Of course, like anyone in New York, I have friends who aren’t from here – but I can count them on one hand. I didn’t say I dressed “non-native” – I said our outfits are “non-conventional” by the standards of most people who live in Bay Ridge. Sorry that I don’t wear a Yankee hat and cargo shorts and whatever else “everyone else wears” out to a bar, but just because I dress differently than that, one should not assume I’m not from here. Also, do you really want me to give you the breakdown of where I grew up in Bay Ridge and live now and the places I frequent? Because I’m not going to do that, even though you claiming this whole thing “smells fishy” incites the utmost rage in me. Don’t fucking challenge my native status. Part of the beauty of being from Brooklyn is you can look and dress however the fuck you want, so even if one thinks that you LOOK like some douche from Ohio (by a few peoples naive and close minded thinking) doesn’t mean you ARE some douche from Ohio. Seriously, have you ever seen someone who doesn’t look like you in Bay Ridge who is also from here? Even better, do you – gasp! – have any friends who don’t dress like you do?! I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone in your circle is some salty dog-esque character, or even if (you are a 20-something who lives and goes out in Bay Ridge) that I know you in real life, which would be the most comical aspect of this whole thing.
Yeah, what’s wrong with that stronza Inglese?
Oops! The entry above was meant to be a reply to Normal Italian Guy. Must have hit the wrong button on this magic talking box. Ahh, I’ll never understand you youngsters and your Walkmans and 8track tapes!
Among the hipsters I know, Bay Ridge has a reputation for being full of uncool “Al Bundys.” So, ironically, if Bay Ridge wants to avoid being invaded by Wiscafornians, you can pretend to be racist, and maybe you can get rid of them. Every time you see a hipster, start going “You know who I can’t STAND!? Mexicans!” While hipsters aren’t afraid of tough blacks or Hispanics and readily take over their neighborhoods, they ARE still afraid of tough white people.
Excuse me, hipsters aren’t afraid of tough blacks or Hispanics? You are fucking delusional. The only reason they live in urban neighborhoods are because there are constant police patrols protecting them. These punks never make eye contact or acknowledge brown people. And blacks and Hispanics know that hipster pussies will call the cops if they even bump into them by accident. Trust me, because when I am walking around with my friends in Wburg, they all avoid eye contact, except for the few who smile nervously with the “please don’t fuck with me” eyes. LMAO…
I hope they find bartenders who are ok with not being tipped.
As a native and a bayridge resident, I wear a sinister loath filled sneer at the sight of any hipster Fuck! For the past 2 years I’ve seen hipsters slowly infest my neighborhood. The grocery stores and super markets have been forced to carry Pabst blue ribbon, Brooklyn lager and other hipster beers. They need to get real jobs, have bills and suffer stress, anxiety, and depression like the rest of us! That or die!