Note From Kim: F*ck Brooklyn, I Still Love New York
I LOVE Paper Magazine, and I have been following co-founder
Kim Hastreiter from afar for years.
I was delighted to read her latest rant on Brooklyn.
Kim's latest column lambasted the faux celebrity of Brooklyn's hipster culture, saying that Manhattan, instead, will always hold charm for her in its grit and glamour.
[Paper Magazine]
"I know I sound like an old curmudgeon punk when I say that I'm totally sick of this "brand" they call Brooklyn. But it's true. I'm sick of Brooklyn the look, Brooklyn the cool and Brooklyn the aesthetic. And I'm especially tired of Brooklyn's monolithic tourist trap, Williamsburg, which looks like it's been branded by the Portland agency Wieden + Kennedy. If I see another Edison light bulb or indie, vintage-furnished Ace-style hotel open up, or one more white, bearded, tattooed, apron-clad, work-booted hipster standing behind the counter of a shop selling pork bellies, small-batch gin, organic barber shop products or old-school, authentic, artisanal, heritage, sustainable, distressed-looking anything, I swear I will throw up."
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