by Gina 
If you want to be irritated, watch this cringe-worthy music video, which is basically a knock off of California Girls, sung by a party girl who dances around Williamsburg in a Nets hat.
Bill de Blasio played it cool with Colbert this week and denied being a socialist (even though we all know he’s a communist spy infiltrating the city to spread universal…
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Greenpoint – 1999: basic Polish useful; Franklin a largely Puerto Rican row; paint-splattered kids with dark-circles from all night art-making, an occasional penny to be found on the sidewalk.
Greenpoint 2002/3/4/5 – heated conversations at (now defunct) Greenpoint Coffeehouse around the relationship of aesthetics to wider social international contexts; an occasional nickel gleams on the sidewalk.
Greenpoint 2006/7/8 – American Playground basketball scene: hard-won entré into rock ball style play with polyglot kids from the hood – fading; Bodegas still Bodegas; poetry readings at bars (all 2!) – to”attract customers”; on the curbside – a dime!
Greenpoint 2009/2010/2011 – heated conversations about web 2.o newly added functions begin flooding like, every like, corner, in like in every, like, bar; “L chickens” begin full strut to GRNPT; Euros! Two – one on Java – the other on Freeman.
Greenpoint 2012/2013/2014 – pacific conversations on every corner punctuated by “my dad” “my mom”; actual moms and dads paraded on Franklin; Bodega caving in, going the way of Kim’s Market; Transmitter Park – breathing space!; Greenpointers.com – resident trusty news source, archeological site chronicle, tracking the sweep of change as it surges on; Krone and Krona to be found on West Street.