Topic: Williamsburg

The Corrections on The New York Times' Williamsburg Trend Piece Are Delicious

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Hope you're hungry for schadenfreude, because The New York Times's recent Thursday styles piece on "Will.i.amsburg" was not only laughable, it was incorrect. And somehow, so are the corrections.

By Adam Clark Estes

May 1, 2013

The New York Times Just Published a Slideshow on How to Be a Will.i.amsburg Hipster

Oh no. It's happening again. The New York Times is discovering that Brooklyn is a popular place, and it's running trend pieces about how hipsters love the Williamsburg neighborhood therein. But this latest edition is more trollish than the others

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By David Wagner

Aug 30, 2012

States Settle With Publishers; Amazon's Kindle Fire Burns Out

Today in books and publishing: Amazon's fresh out of Kindle Fires; on the 'authenticity memoir'; states ready to end e-book suit; controversial Paterno bio sells like hotcakes.   

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By Jen Doll

Apr 17, 2012

No Respect for the 'Colonizers of Williamsburg'

There's a final gentrification push in the land of Williamsburg, according to The New York Post, that may make the starving artist extinct, or possibly just make the starving artist move to Bushwick.

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By Richard Lawson

Mar 14, 2012

Whole Foods and the End of Williamsburg

The big news the nation has been waiting for finally arrived today: Williamsburg, the Brooklyn neighborhood that's been the white-hot galactic center of the past decade's so-called hipster subculture, is finally getting a Whole Foods.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 27, 2011

The New York Times's Oddly Sexual Report on a Park in Williamsburg

The New York Times's latest dispatch from Brooklyn is not only questionable for its newsworthiness; it's also a little bit porny.

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By Eric Randall

Oct 25, 2011

A Tumblr Gives Hipster-Bashing a Seasonal Twist

A new tumblr getting attention today asks the question on every Brooklyn-goer's mind: Halloween or Williamsburg?  

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