Depending how long you’ve lived in North BK, you may have heard tale of the legendary bar Kokie’s.
Tag: hipster
Posted inArt
A Night of Experimental Jazz & Lydia Lunch at the Park Church Co-Op
Last Thursday, artist Martynka Wawrzyniak hosted “A Night of Experimental Jazz & Lydia Lunch” at the Park Church Co-Op (129 Russell Street) to support her McGolrick Park community art installation, Ziemia. […]
Posted inEnvironmental
McCarren Park’s Insta-Famous Hipster Hawk
If you’re like many of us, you’ve probably seen a hip-looking hawk roaming about McCarren Park. Whether he’s sunbathing on a Pendleton blanket with a Turkey’s Nest Margarita or simply […]
Posted inCulture
Die Hipster Car Spotted in Greenpoint!
A reader sent in this photo of a car on Freeman St in Greenpoint with a license plate that reads “DiHpster.” I doubt it’s the “real” Die Hipster; he actually […]
Posted inCulture, What's Happening?
Craft Epidemic, Hipster Vet, Levin Loves Girls, $300 Difference, 106 New Bars, Homeless Stabbing – The Hook-Up 9/16
We all know how crafty Greenpointers are, well, now we have a new 1500 square foot classroom in the Pencil Factory studios that will be teaching classes beginning in October. (BB) […]
Posted inCommunity, Historical Greenpoint
“Presumed Inevitability of Gentrification” in Greenpoint: Not The End Of The Story
Two new articles about gentrification and environmental activism in Greenpoint, appearing in The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, argue that the neighborhood is challenging the typical narrative that gentrifying neighborhoods […]
Posted inCommunity
Greenpointers Exclusive: The DieHipster Interview
Meet Jaime Kimpo, the true identity of the notorious Die Hipster. After months of sleuthing, we have finally tracked down the king of the anti-hipster movement, only to have found […]
Posted inCulture, Eat & Drink
Rawpothecary: Hipster Juice or Hipster Cure?
While trying to figure out the point of this “hipsters deserve to die” ad on the G train (Is Die Hipster campaigning?), my Mom asked in a very concerned voice, “Jen […]
Posted inCulture
Hipster Bashing Is Getting Old
I write this fully aware of the flak I’m going to get. But here it goes. I read an article in Brooklyn Magazine the other day discussing whether hipsters and […]
Posted inCulture
Hipster Disney Princess – The Musical!
Via @TheCut Aren’t you so sick of hipster / gentrification talk? Watch this video and stop taking everything so seriously for a minute. Isn’t that what Disney and being a […]