and the article uses a few words that will make a few Brixtonites squirm: http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-tra...lage-new-restaurants-food?mbid=social#slide=1
I've never been a hipster. My mankles have always been concealed from view, I've never worn ironic oversized glasses and my bikes have always had multiple gears.
I'm so ahead of the game that it'll be a few more years before the hip kids are walking around looking as effortlessly unstylish as me.
there are plenty of hipsters with full length keks and who don't wear non-prescription specs and who don't have single speeders. plenty.
My fear is I may leap too far forward and move on to my next fashion tsunami which - because fashion is cyclical - may unfortunately appear similar to what the kids were wearing a few years ago.
Long gone. Moved on to Billyburg in 2000 and now it's spreading through Greenpoint and Brooklyn like scoot-stick rocket, with the actual cool artists holed up out of their reach in Red Hook.
Isn't Red Hook due a regeneration soon as well? Seem to remember reading about it a year or two ago. Williamsburg tho... I had to chuckle when I was there. The sheer effort these people have gone to to stand out, only to look so utterly cookie-cutter.
They cost £12 from the Hipster Sealion Bucket store in BV, but you can get one from the Ghanaian shop two doors down for £2
Thing with Red Hook is that it's still relatively hard to get to, making it out too much of a time commitment to the weekend club-hopping crowd. And there's not a lot of groovy shit there either.