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.
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.
The New York Times's latest dispatch from Brooklyn is not only questionable for its newsworthiness; it's also a little bit porny.
A new tumblr getting attention today asks the question on every Brooklyn-goer's mind: Halloween or Williamsburg?
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