She knew change was coming, and started documenting her favorite locations in Greenpoint and neighboring Williamsburg to "see how long they would last. They often did. Bodegas closed, replaced by third-wave coffee shops.
Rents got so expensive that even some of the designer boutiques closed. Chatelain captured locations again whenever she noticed they had changed. And that new NYC Ferry service? And really, what could be more grown-up than that? For more information, visit nycgo. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. More about Brooklyn travel New York. Already subscribed? To put the local sentiment into perspective, the term "Bridge and tunnel crowd" was a label given to outer borough folks who tried to infiltrate Manhattan's exclusive club.
Today things are different. The perfect storm of economics, housing politics, and gentrification have shifted the cultural paradigm. Manhattan is out, Brooklyn is in. While it may surprise you to discover that America's creative class now resides across the East River, Brooklyn is the new home of what's hip. In fact, sometimes Brooklynites' adherence to trends has earned them "hipster" labels.
Encompassing nearly square miles with 2. Luckily for you - we are part time investigative journalists. We bleached our hair and shaved ourselves mustaches to dive deep undercover within the Hipster ranks.
After our extensive reporting, we've compiled a list of local musts, offering you insight to Brooklyn's up and coming culture. They need it to survive, and it doesn't get more trendy than Flowers for All Occasions. The coffee shop sits on the border of Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant famously the birthplace of American rapper Notorious B. It also doubles as a bar. They offer an eclectic, vegetarian menu of snacks, and once the sun goes down, the space converts into a bar where they serve soju cocktails.
Fortunately these questions can be answered by the U. Census Bureau. Looking at their flows mapper — which measures people moving to or from a county to any other counties — we were able to find out where people were coming from when they moved to Brooklyn. This map shows counties that had a significant number of people aged who moved to Kings County, New York, also known as Brooklyn.
These are prime candidates for hipsterdom. White areas have no discernible flow. The grey areas on the map indicate regions where there are people moving from there to Brooklyn, but the Census doesn't have evidence to say they're between 25 and The orange areas, though, are where a bunch of people are coming from:.
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