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
No, Rob, but they are liable to throw up in your face. Or on your stoop.
Still, this is hardly news. Williamsburg has been a destination for “slumming” assholes for years now. We’ve redefined bridge and tunnel, so that it now means people coming from Manhattan to the borough.
And, no, it’s not all bad. It’s nice to have good restaurants and shopping, and most of the places that open up don’t want to be the mecca of the binge drinking crowd (I wonder how happy Walter Food is with this publicity?).
By Santa on April 26, 2010 10:48 AM
it seems this person just hates frat boys.
I wonder what they did to her in college??? Or did not do!!!! I wonder what her nickname was.
By Heather on April 26, 2010 10:43 AM
I see that you’re trying to incite the debate…
But, gotta say, bankers are a lot less annoying than the stylists, interior decorators, creative “marketers” and advertising directors of the burg.
One reason for this? Bankers actually make the money they spend. I still have a hard time understanding how any interior decorator or stylist that I’ve never heard of can afford an $800K condo. And yet, I’ve met like ten people who fit this description. I mean, more power to those who can — but there seems to be some disconnect from reality.
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Interesting take.
There was an article in the NYT this weekend that claimed since 1986 i-bankers share of corporate profits has increased from 15% to 41%.
Think about that. You said “Bankers actually make the money they spend.” True – but what do they actually create? Derivatives that are designed for ‘heads-I-in-tails-you-lose’? Meanwhile you are decrying people who actually add value to our lives?
Sorry to pick on you Heather, I just found your post ironic.
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 although that doesn’t mean that they might not overrun the joint eventually. maybe.
sure that anyone who defiles property like that is young, stupid, raised not particularly well, and probably middle class. probably “rebelling” because his parents got divorced when he was a teenager and now he’s an anarchist.
the actual poor in the area (the latinos and the hassids) would probably not do this.
rob – again spot on analysis!
it seems this person just hates frat boys.
I guess instead of Young Urban Professionals it is gonna be Yucky Urban P….
That writing has gotta be photoshopped in
“They were acting like they were in Cancun, doing tons of shots, screaming, falling asleep sitting up.”
I think they were just narcoleptics with tourrette’s. The shots had nothing to do with it.
I’d rather live with a bunch of yuppies than folks who spray paint tired cliches on other peoples walls.