LOL good one

Floating Inflatable East River Tunnel Proposed For L Train Doomsday Survivors https://t.co/vk4MCwPiD0 pic.twitter.com/uUXbRgvHO3

— Gothamist (@Gothamist) June 15, 2016

ctm

Jezebel Editor Randomly Punched In Williamsburg http://t.co/zeMJ6kJfIa

— Gothamist (@Gothamist) April 27, 2015

do you recognize this man

if so, report his whereabouts immediately to starla because he is the suspect caught on surveillance video shooting 3 teenagers and a 12 year old in the legs in williamsburg. starla is our local neighborhood activist stopping news crews and tracking down information. does that look like thomas wilhelm to you? can anyone confirm his activities this weekend??? NEWS STORY

great news for me and you, but mostly me!

Kirby just told me about a new mexican food place that opened around the corner from our apartment. Cerveceria Havemeyer by the same owners as La Superior and Cantina Royal will be the new Taco Chulo backup spot. Twerk around the corner and drink a margarita!

wililamsburg is the new wililamsburg

TREND ALERT!

i'm writing this trend piece about the trend i've caught onto of various new york-based blogs writing angry backlash pieces about trend pieces written about williamsburg. CONSIDER THIS TREND PIECE BACKLASH TREND COVERED.

you heard it here first. williamsburg is the new williamsburg. now and forever.

i went and saw the hobbit by myself at williamsburg cinemas when it was brand new and no one knew about it

williamsburg is the new williamsburg

whole foods, anthropology and urban outfitters are either signed or negotiating leases and j.crew is poking around looking for a space too.

whole foods and anthropology: 242 bedford btw n3rd and n4th
urban outfitters: next door to the american apparel on n6th
  via

nErD aLeRt!

here are the latest renderings from the ongoing quest to ruin the north brooklyn waterfront:

When Two Trees plunked down $185 million to buy the Domino Sugar Factory development site last summer, the already-approved plans for four-towers and 2,200 apartments were universally hated. The hulking buildings were bland and boxy, so Two Trees went to SHoP Architects (is there any major project these guys don't get?) and asked them to make it better—and by God, they did. Here now, we bring you the first renderings of the new New Domino. The number of apartments is the same, but SHoP added 60 percent more open space, two office buildings, a school, and more community amenities. SHoP principal Vishaan Chakrabarti and Two Trees Director of Special Projects David Lombino shared the 3.3 million-square-foot plan with us, detailing how this mega project is fundamentally different from the Brooklyn waterfront developments that came before it. (via)

i don't hate the architecture. if we've got to put some huge buildings right there, it'd be nice if they were kind of cool.

this was brought to my attention by thomas wilhelm, who raises an excellent question: how are all these people going to get to work, the L TRAIN?!?!

aaaaaaaaHAH AHaHAHAhAHA HA ahAH!!!

music video monday continues

this time from a couple of our neighbors:


mykki blanco - kingpinning (shot in wburg. see if you can spot joel in his grizz hat)


grizzly bear - gun-shy

this one goes out to starla

greenpoint is the new williamsburg

according to the always-on-the-tip-of-the-internet new york times:

On a scorching July afternoon, the frisson of hustle and bustle that delineates the weekday rush hour was in full swing at the intersection of Greenpoint and Manhattan Avenues, the dowdy commercial heart of Greenpoint. Horns blared, and unlike other times of day or night, when the traffic ranges from intermittent to invisible, pedestrians actually did have to look both ways before jaywalking. In this, the genuine Brooklyn, crosswalks are for sissies, classic apartments are walk-ups, loud is the default sound level, and burly men of a certain vintage still wear sleeveless undershirts in public.

Until Greenpoint’s artsy sister neighborhood to the south, Williamsburg, set a brash example by surrendering to glassy condominium and hotel towers and urbane renewal that yanked the cost of shelter in a Manhattan-ish direction, vinyl-sided six-family tenements were the backbone of the housing stock here. And century-old trees shaded the crumbling sidewalks. But lately the biggest shadow being cast in Greenpoint belongs to Williamsburg.

Vinyl siding doesn’t represent Greenpoint’s cachet any longer; virtual doormen, rooftop farms, artisanal gin and brick-faced condominiums do. The virtual gatekeeper is a prime amenity at the sold-out 93-unit Pencil Factory condominium on West Street, where the penthouse sold for just over $1 million, a neighborhood first. (via)

oh, just shut up.

thx liz!

that place is gonna be crooooowwwddddeeeeeeddddddd....

Williamsburg will be the next nabe to welcome Whole Foods. Sleuths have ferreted out that a stalled site at 242 Bedford Ave. by North Fourth Street will be rejuvenated with the organic grocer and a New York Sports Club in the base with luxe apartments above, rather than the middling mix of Marshall’s and CVS reported elsewhere a year ago. (via)

what it's like.

Best of Williamsburg Street Fashion - watch more funny videos      

bard shout out!

You had me at Gucci Gucci. You lost me at Bumpin, Bumpin

oh, and speaking of williamsburg dining...

guess what opened this week: the meatball shop on bedford!

egg's expanding.

There's good news in the air for the devotees of Williamsburg's Egg, George Weld's farm-driven, Southern comfort food establishment on North 5th Street. For the past five months, Weld and his team have been renovating a new space just two blocks away at 109A N. 3rd, next to Mast Brothers Chocolate. Details are still hazy, but Weld says the new, "more relaxed" restaurant will "grow organically out of Egg," and better integrate their farm. Expect a focus on dinner service this time, along with a stronger emphasis on vegetables. Weld is still looking for some more funding, so there's no word on an opening date just yet. (via)

do not look directly AT the biscuit unless you're in the mood for a mouth full of saliva.

i see you in there, fig jam.

(unsurprisingly) Joe Jonas has balls pelted at face

from a NY daily news blurb via gawker:

We bet Joe Jonas wants to "See No More" of Williamsburg. The middle Jonas brother got a rough reception in Brooklyn's hipster capital on Wednesday night when audience members at the Paper magazine party pelted him with mini-basketballs and greeted his performance with a mixture of derision and stony silence.

omg, what was he thinking? williamsburg?

a williamsburg 4th of july.

lol!

#hipsteradvocacy

a surbway map for hipsters! (c2e.)

what did thomas wilhelm do yesterday?

I attempted this the first day after news of Osama Bin Laden's death. FAIL. "next stop Bedford Ave" should have warned me. (via)

that is just so embearassing.