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    MizJenkinsHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 1:36pm

    Normal, non-gentrifiers are pushed to the margins. Brooklyn’s real style is getting threatened by sameness, to say nothing of the threats to the necessities of life for millions of middle and lower class people. All because the sort of people who shop at Le Bon Marche want a piece of what they imagine Brooklyn is all about.

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    #Whitepeopleruineverything

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      NicoMizJenkins
      9/17/15 1:52pm

      #Richpeopleruineverything

      FTFY

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      MizJenkinsNico
      9/17/15 2:15pm

      No, because rich folks of color who move into these neighborhoods are far more likely to engage with and participate in the existing culture rather than supplanting it with their own. In fact, a lot of rich folks of color move into these neighborhoods specifically because the environments they work in are so overwhelmingly White (see, finance) that moving to a poorer neighborhood is the damn near the only way they get to see and interact with other people of color besides Walter from the mail room.

      You didn’t fix anything, you just wanted to deflect the attention off of White folk’s bullshit. Nice try.

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    The ever-present football-player rapistHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 1:09pm

    Who would have ever thought Long Island could be so trendy?

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      GregoireThe ever-present football-player rapist
      9/17/15 1:24pm

      The year 2025: The hottest place on earth is Wantagh.

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      The Noble RenardThe ever-present football-player rapist
      9/17/15 1:36pm

      Hahaha. I’m from Rockland county, which is a 25 minute drive from Manhattan, and yet my NYC friends always said I’m from upstate. My response to them was, if I’m upstate, all of you that live in Queens and Brooklyn are from Long Island.

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    jlpubarchHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 1:41pm

    We just need to annex parts of Nassau and Westchester counties.

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      Nicojlpubarch
      9/17/15 1:59pm

      Yea, because the entire rest of the state is just waiting for your orders.

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      MizJenkinsNico
      9/17/15 2:46pm

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    EasttoMidwestHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 1:07pm

    I’m from Brooklyn. I’m even from a fancy neighborhood. When I was growing up, my middle-school aged friends and I were embarrassed to say we were from Brooklyn. We were really self-conscious about not being from Manhattan. When I moved to Chicago, I started telling people I was from Brooklyn because I thought it would make me less intimidating to all the 22 year olds who thought I was the coolest shit on earth just for being from NYC.

    Times have changed, is all I’m saying.

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      JordansDisgracedMamaEasttoMidwest
      9/17/15 1:25pm

      back in the day Brooklyn was strictly middle and lower middle class - Tony Manero shit - now it’s people Like Hamilton bitching about people like Hamilton

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      JackmeriusEasttoMidwest
      9/17/15 1:52pm

      The best part of being from Brooklyn in college was telling people, hearing “oh, my grandparents are from there”. Now they all want to move back and conveniently forget that their grandparents moved away in the first place because they didn’t want to raise their families next to mine.

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    hilikusopusHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 2:21pm

    “In fact, average rents here just reached an all time high.”

    Curious what this actually means, since I’ve never had a landlord in the city say, “Guess what? I’m reducing your rent this year.”

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      RobNYChilikusopus
      9/17/15 4:02pm

      You usually move out for something cheaper and then they lower it if they can’t find anyone to rent.

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      hilikusopusRobNYC
      9/17/15 4:17pm

      Maybe in the very short term, but it inevitably goes back up. Aside from luxury condos in LIC or Williamsburg, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a vacant apartment in New York lasting longer than a month. There are probably some special cases, like The Rockaways after Sandy, but that’s got to be the exception to the rule.

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    Hip Brooklyn StereotypeHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 1:05pm

    “[Le Bon Marche] colleagues ran reconnaissance missions deep into Brooklyn, going far beyond the luxury condominiums of Williamsburg. Several different teams braved the winter cold, combing the Red Hook and Bed-Stuy neighborhoods in search of pickle makers and quirky lingerie designers.”

    HAHAHAHAHA

    I’m picturing them speeding down Nostrand Avenue in dogsleds.

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      WhatthefoxsaysHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      9/17/15 1:25pm

      My gf works in fashion and she does the same exact thing in reverse: travels to Europe to get ideas for upcoming seasons.

      This is why, in the future, the entire world will all be wearing the same monocolor jumpsuit.

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    WDeanisHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 2:36pm

    My friends in NYC ask me to visit them but every single article I read about this place is such a turn off. The people that live there complain that it’s not the same city that it used to be, and nobody likes tourists, so... I’m just gonna skip it this life.

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      Maxine FloefflerWDeanis
      9/17/15 2:59pm

      The ugly little secret is that we love tourists. Get on a subway train and look a little confused and find one of the wall-mounted maps and people will jump in and try to help. I do this all the time. I’ve taught people how to swipe MetroCards. I’ve walked people to their destinations if I’m going that way anyway. I’ve been to Broadway shows (tourist meccas) and freely dispensed restaurant recommendations.

      I’ve been in New York probably longer than you’ve been alive and I remember when I got here how helpful everyone always was. And this was during the dark, crime-ridden period. Come visit your friends!

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      smokeytreatMaxine Floeffler
      9/17/15 5:45pm

      This has been my experience as a tourist in NYC. I wonder if the “New Yorkers are nasty and rude” isn’t a product of tourists being grumpy and impatient with each other in places like Times Square. (Ok, it was me. My friend insisted we had to visit Times Square and I spent the entire time shooting death beams into the backs of others, grumbling about how everyone was moving so damn slow and stopping suddenly for no damn reason.)

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    mkUltravoxHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 1:40pm

    can someone do some googlejitsu and find patient zero for beards, skinny jeans, knit caps? cuz that shits been around for a dozen years now, at least... even the goddamn man-bun. would love to see early cases of all of ‘em. montreal prolly earlier than brooklyn...

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      Maxine FloefflermkUltravox
      9/17/15 2:38pm

      Oh I can attest to the skinny jeans being in Montréal earlier than the US. I was barely out of college and I used to go regularly in the mid-80s for work. I used to marvel at the guys who were so thin that they could squeeze into the skinny jeans, like they had no waists or thighs or calves. I once wandered into a hip clothing store somewhere in the city, can’t remember where, and asked about the skinny jeans. The sales clerk looked me over and said, in his best English, “I am sorry, we would have nothing that would fit YOU.” I was 6’4” and weighed about 170 pounds.

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    youjustkeepthinkingbutchHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 1:12pm

    “spawned in large part by the very Brooklyn Brand popularity that’s infesting the cities of the world and causing global style to compress into a homogenous layer of similar facial hair, as if “Brooklyn” were the NAFTA of fashion.”

    Other than misspelling ”homogeneous”....this is why I love you, HamNo.

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      DamatoCorpyoujustkeepthinkingbutch
      9/17/15 2:41pm

      Haha, I couldn’t even read on my own

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    MattHamilton Nolan
    9/17/15 1:26pm

    Scene: Exterior- Shipyard

    “Jesus, what’s that damn stench? Smells like rotten meat!”

    “Yeah, that’d be the 20 cargo containers of hipsters that came in 3 months ago. Paperwork wasn’t filled out right and they got held up in customs. Poor skinny-jeaned SOB’s starved to death. We tried to give them some bread but they refused to eat it because it wasn’t ethically-sourced, organic loafs from an artisanal bakery. Kept muttering about how they hope the tourists don't discover that place down the street that they found, because then it'd be ruined."

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