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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]