Amusing article in the Times on Brooklyn "hipster cool" (2013, neighborhood)

[jad2k]

Best line in the article:

While waiting at the cash register, I picked up a pair of argyle wool socks from a nearby wicker basket and asked, “Are your socks local?” The salesman self-consciously said no. I returned the socks like an organic farmer who has learned that a friend has named her child Monsanto.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/fa...liamsburg.html

[njnyckid]

It is very amusing that he saw this as an opportunity to have a true Brooklyn experience. And of course, he did the classic "calling the neighborhood Bushwick when it's really East Williamsburg" thing.