Beyond Hipsters: Williamsburg’s Tough Economic Realities
Welcome to a neighborhood steeped in serious denial.
Posted 06/10/09 in Daily Intel
Cease-fires
Mike Albo Calls for End to Hipster-Bashing, Hideous T-Shirts
With just a few small changes, we can coexist.
Posted 06/01/09 in Daily Intel
Sex Diaries
The Hot Young Thing Shacking Up With a Divorcé
In this week's sex diary: Dogs, old people, and "lots of panting, moaning and screaming."
Posted 01/05/09 in Daily Intel
Hipster Mating
Garlic-Breath Guy Asks: Wanna Make Out?
Not really, but thanks!
Posted 12/23/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
There’s Mistletoe Hanging Over the Bedford L Stop
And we saw mommy kissing this fashion-forward bear-type dude with a seriously ironically full beard!
Posted 12/16/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Bike Clowns Versus Hasidim Tomorrow Morning in Williamsburg
The clowns'll try to keep the new Kent Avenue bike lane clear for bikers. Mayhem may ensue.
Posted 12/04/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
McCarren Park Hawk Has Own Laconic MySpace Page
'About me: i eat squirrels, pigeons and rats ... i am becoming very famous.'
Posted 12/01/08 in Daily Intel
Sex Diaries
The Soul Singer and Possible Sex Addict
This week's Sex Diary participant gets into the holiday spirit with a little Santa porn.
Posted 11/12/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Who Stole the Rock on East Williamsburg’s Rock Street?
There was a big rock there and now it's gone.
Posted 10/23/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The L Train to Get Even More Flashy Signage
But will it relieve the awful crowding in the mornings?
Posted 10/22/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Someone From Williamsburg Had Hot Lucha Libre Sex Last Night
Guess how we know?
Posted 10/14/08 in Daily Intel
Crazytown
Chunk Joins a Gang
There's a new gang in Williamsburg named the Pretty Boy Goonies. Forgive us, but we couldn't resist.
Posted 09/23/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
New Williamsburg Greenpoint Cinema Caves to Area’s Prevailing Hipster Nazism
A cinema owner in Billyburg fears that if he built a standard, modern multiplex in the hood he'd get brown-bagged out of town.
Posted 09/12/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
It’s ‘Hasids vs. Hotties’ in South Williamsburg
Brooklyn’s Hasidic community is being bombarded with images of female flesh!
Posted 08/29/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The Queens Zoo Gets ‘Babydoll Lambs,’ We Are Smothered by Their Cuteness
Light, cheery news from Prospect Heights, Park Slope — even Queens and Staten Island. It’s Labor Day weekend, so the last boroughs report of summer doesn’t want to make you work too hard.
Posted 08/28/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Brooklynites Are Really Getting Salty About the Waterfalls
Brooklyn Heights trapped in salty spray! Williamsburg choked by toxic cloud! Kew Gardens easy prey to overdevelopment! Hoods under siege … in today’s boroughs report!
Posted 08/27/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
I.M. Pei to Appear in Chinatown
The reclusive architect will show up at the reopening of the Museum of Chinese in America, the ‘pop-up park’ gets another month in Brooklyn Heights, and a pretty new footpath uptown on the High Bridge doesn’t mean you still can’t find drugs in the park! All in today's boroughs report.
Posted 08/25/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The Revenge of the Stoop Pooper
Behold the return of the Boerum Hill Stoop Pooper, the chilled-out raccoon of Brooklyn Heights, and the aggressive Kennedy Fried Chicken sign of Bedford Park. All in today’s boroughs report.
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