Worse Kind of Yuppie Now Invading 'Burg
Now that the battle’s clearly been lost against the relatively inoffensive yuppies of the creative classes in Williamsburg (read: non-Wall Street types who still make enough dough, or have parents who make enough dough, to buy a new condo within walking distance of the Bedford L train), locals have something far worse to get their…
Now that the battle’s clearly been lost against the relatively inoffensive yuppies of the creative classes in Williamsburg (read: non-Wall Street types who still make enough dough, or have parents who make enough dough, to buy a new condo within walking distance of the Bedford L train), locals have something far worse to get their hackles up about: conspicuous banker frat boys who treat the North Side like an extension of the Lower East Side. Case in point was one local (hardly an old-timer, mind you: she’s live in the Burg since 2004) quoted in The Post this weekend: “I went to Walter Foods, and there was this long table of obvious Manhattanites who were partying with the wild abandon of people who know they won’t run into anyone they know. They were acting like they were in Cancun, doing tons of shots, screaming, falling asleep sitting up. Meanwhile, I’m trying to have a nice dinner with my mom. It was hideous.
There Goes the Neighborhood! [NY Post]
Photo by psi0nik
@Wine_lover: i think there are yuppies and there are the young, dumb, full of cum murray hill/UES types (ex frat boys, what have you). i too don’t want to be around them, but haven’t witnessed any ever in WB…
You’re not paying enough attention. Like I said, this is not news.
@Heather: But, gotta say, bankers are a lot less annoying than the stylists, interior decorators, creative “marketers” and advertising directors of the burg.
But do they live here? That’s really the point of the article (as hackneyed as it is) – it’s one thing for bankers or stylists or whatevers to live and eat and shop in a neighborhood. It’s another thing when those same people (whoever they are) drink and throw up in the neighborhood. Any neighborhood is better off without the latter, no matter how much money they spend getting drunk.
Winelover managed to work in 4 sterotypes into one post. That could be a record.
“this article is stupid.”
-QOTD
So that article wasn’t satire? They got real problems in Billyburg. Don’t worry, soon enough the old Yogi Berra quote will apply, “nobody goes there anymore, it’s too cowded.”
“Yuppies” are no worse than “hipsters” or anyone else that gentrifies this or that neighborhood.
this graffiti is a weak attempt at some sort of social statement and it’s just plain stupid. Don’t blame the folks who buy the condos and bldgs in once-blighted or emerging neighborhoods—blame the developers, local leadership, etc that allowed certain people to be priced out of their homes… actually this argument is hydra-headed and I don’t have any answers. Meh.
“Williamsburg has been a destination for “slumming” assholes for years now.”
And one of them is here posting right now!!!
this article is stupid.
HA HA HA, Mr. B…… ROFL, Nothing like throwing a Moltov cocktail out there and then walking away.
Oh, and the whole ‘stay outta my ‘hood, I was hear first’…good gawd, this must be the 1,000th time in 40 nabes over the last decade or two we have heard/read that crapola.
Newsflash indeed…NYC is *always* evolving. Change is one of the few constants you can bank on.