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NYC isn't one of the world's leading purveyors of style becase of olympus fashion week or the textile swaths of 7th avenue. it's largely because the streets of the city have traditionally acted as an incubator where style is fomented before being commodified and sold off to the masses. it's also part of what makes NYC interesting, fresh and attractive. call it superficial or vain, but when you walk out of the house in new york, you're supposed to be on display. this is why the times publishes pics of "street style", nymag has "the look book" and different areas in the city are known as destinations for people watching. it's a way of life. the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly. and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
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Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch » at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
I don't think NYC has very much street style - it's way too conformist. when I lived in harlem I called spring and summer "big white t-shirt season". boooooring. tokyo and london (to name a few) have way better street style. and for the record, if I'm wearing pleated pants, I'm most likely dead. the z.cav days are LONG past and Shall Not Return.like a smoked meat with an earthy youth overnote -
As much as I agree with your premise, YS, this whole "douche zoo" bullsh*t is wrong. [youtube]
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Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch » NYC isn't one of the world's leading purveyors of style becase of olympus fashion week or the textile swaths of 7th avenue. it's largely because the streets of the city have traditionally acted as an incubator where style is fomented before being commodified and sold off to the masses. it's also part of what makes NYC interesting, fresh and attractive. call it superficial or vain, but when you walk out of the house in new york, you're supposed to be on display. this is why the times publishes pics of "street style", nymag has "the look book" and different areas in the city are known as destinations for people watching. it's a way of life. the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly. and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
self righteous rants like this best come with pictures next time. Of yourself. And make them good. Your t isn't so "crisp" if it's a knockoff all your homeboys are rocking and it goes down to your knees. And, as a former "where'd you get those" head, have had enough of seeing the same pair of kicks in a rainbow of retarded, blinding colors. Originality is not a screenprinted shirt with shiny ice cream cones and a pair of AF1's you got shrinkwrapped at Fulton Mall. ps: for the record, I look good, and I'm from one of those horrible, dreaded midwestern places where there's an awful lot of fine ladies. -
Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch » at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
Should we go to American Apparel? True. Pleated pants suck. -
Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER: http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/32096/
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erikka » Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER: http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/32096/
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Moderator note: Safe for work, if humping ottomans is considered safe in your workplace. It is in mine!
^ i disabled "smilies". young snitch is above such trivialties.
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Asking "worksafe" would be pointless, wouldn't it? So...where exactly is the "fashionable" neighborhood of NYC? Anyone who says Williamsburg will be forced to do a 12 hour unpaid shift sorting through polyester dresses from the late 70's in the dark corner of Beacon's Closet.
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williamsburg>anywhere else in brooklyn. and it's not really close, since fort greene started getting park slopey. besides, w'burg backlash is so 2002.
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erikka » Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER: http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/32096/
wait, what bank does she work in? she looks like a complete asshat.like a smoked meat with an earthy youth overnote -
young snitch » williamsburg>anywhere else in brooklyn. and it's not really close, since fort greene started getting park slopey. besides, w'burg backlash is so 2002.
Williamsburg is also becoming overrun with all those pleated pants investment types you love to hate--just check curbed or walk down Bedford on a Saturday afternoon. Those who you refer to are off gentrifying Bushwick, one keffiya at a type. -
i'm sure you're right. they're ruining all of new york. but i'll take #### (name redacted in case curbed cocksuckers are reading this) over loki all day, everyday.
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LOL , that ottoman , or whatever it is in that video , got alot of action. Is that supposed to be the new way to get a girl? Make a freaky ass video of yourselves dry humping an object. I'm not gonna comment about the fashion issue here , because like I said before , I'm a bum."Some people make their goals the stars,
They may live and die never reaching them,
but in the darkness of the night, those stars will guide them to their destination,because they put them in their sights." -
erikka » So...where exactly is the "fashionable" neighborhood of NYC?
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young snitch » i'm sure you're right. they're ruining all of new york. but i'll take #### (name redacted in case curbed cocksuckers are reading this) over loki all day, everyday.
Saying people are unfashionable at Loki is like going into American Eagle and saying all they carry is jeans and t-shirts. I've seen some cute, fashionable people at Southpaw, Buttermilk, Great Lakes, Blue Ribbon (late at nite that place is full of fine women: check and see), and (ugh) Soda. Besides, no one from Brooklyn actually goes to that bar, anyway. They should buidl a tunnel connecting Loki and Staten Island. -
my dogs do better air-humping than those fools.Get your paws off my canned chicken
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Oiseau » [quote="erikka"]So...where exactly is the "fashionable" neighborhood of NYC?
I'm going with Brighton Beach. Those young Russians don't wear vintage.[/quote] Nothing but athletic suits. -
young snitch » i'm sure you're right. they're ruining all of new york. but i'll take #### (name redacted in case curbed cocksuckers are reading this) over loki all day, everyday.
Haha! You hang out at Loki! -
erikka » Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER: http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/32096/
I might flip out on the next girl I see wearing those damn glasses with lenses the size of teacup saucers....not that there's anything wrong with that. -
It is pointless preaching this stuff to bland people from bland places coming here on mom and dad's dole. You're more likely to convert a born-again evangelist to Islam than you are to get an iota of common sense out of a yuppie. New York's now-dwindling style and attitude (which just about the whole world copies) was the combination of the native incubator, the starving artist transplants (of which there are practically none today), and the steady stream of immigrants. Walk around Manhattan today and you might as well be in Spokane, Columbus, or Boulder.
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Here's some yuppie kryptonite for ya; what NY people do on a rainy day. If you were alive and breathing in NY during the 90's there's no way you could not know this song. On the other hand, last time I went to a 7th Ave yuppie drinking party, the dancing went something like this: MOD NOTE: Tags fixed.
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Restless Native » It is pointless preaching this stuff to bland people from bland places coming here on mom and dad's dole. You're more likely to convert a born-again evangelist to Islam than you are to get an iota of common sense out of a yuppie. New York's now-dwindling style and attitude (which just about the whole world copies) was the combination of the native incubator, the starving artist transplants (of which there are practically none today), and the steady stream of immigrants. Walk around Manhattan today and you might as well be in Spokane, Columbus, or Boulder.
Who, specifically as opposed to (wildly) generally - is here on mom and dad's dole? Also, is there a distinction b/w those who live here with their parents who had the good luck/foresight to buy years ago, and those whose parents fund them from "Spokan, Columbus, or Boulder?" -
young snitch » williamsburg>anywhere else in brooklyn. and it's not really close, since fort greene started getting park slopey. besides, w'burg backlash is so 2002.
Whoa.
I was with you until this. I fully agree that Ft Greene has been on a downward slide the last several years, but it still kicks Williamsburg's butt up down and sideways on the style front. No contest. 
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WhyFi » [quote="erikka"]Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER: http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/32096/
I might flip out on the next girl I see wearing those damn glasses with lenses the size of teacup saucers.[/quote] AMEN! [-o< -
young snitch » Moderator note: Safe for work, if humping ottomans is considered safe in your workplace. It is in mine!
That is the funniest sh*t I've seen in a while.
^ i disabled "smilies". young snitch is above such trivialties.
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Restless Native » Here's some yuppie kryptonite for ya; what NY people do on a rainy day. On the other hand, last time I went to a 7th Ave yuppie drinking party, the dancing went something like this
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Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch » NYC isn't one of the world's leading purveyors of style becase of olympus fashion week or the textile swaths of 7th avenue. it's largely because the streets of the city have traditionally acted as an incubator where style is fomented before being commodified and sold off to the masses. it's also part of what makes NYC interesting, fresh and attractive. call it superficial or vain, but when you walk out of the house in new york, you're supposed to be on display. this is why the times publishes pics of "street style", nymag has "the look book" and different areas in the city are known as destinations for people watching. it's a way of life. the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly. and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
Your shit is weak and old. (and plagiarism is illegal)Only the dead know Brooklyn. -
Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
ANFIELD » (and plagiarism is illegal)
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Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch » NYC isn't one of the world's leading purveyors of style becase of olympus fashion week or the textile swaths of 7th avenue. it's largely because the streets of the city have traditionally acted as an incubator where style is fomented before being commodified and sold off to the masses. it's also part of what makes NYC interesting, fresh and attractive. call it superficial or vain, but when you walk out of the house in new york, you're supposed to be on display. this is why the times publishes pics of "street style", nymag has "the look book" and different areas in the city are known as destinations for people watching. it's a way of life. the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly. and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
The culprit is no so much sloppiness, but calculated non-chalance. There's a difference. It's not cool to be a total yuppie in this neighborhood just yet. Give it time though. Pretty soon we'll have all the anorexic broads teetering around on Manolos that your heart can stand. -
Might it be that the population around here isn't terribly young? I mean, personally, you can only get away with so much for so long before you need to dress like a grown up lest you become mutton dressed up like a lamb. I can't shop at forever 21 forever and, GASP, I have a well paying job that requires that I dress very conservatively. Hey, I could have a "cool", low paying job if mom and dad hadn't cut off my non-existant trust fund.
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Did YS post a pic of his fly-ass self, yet?...not that there's anything wrong with that.
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It would be great if one could actually document the % of trustafarians that actually live in Brooklyn. This concept is probably one of the most heaviest bandied-about lazy thinkin' rants, but I have yet to encounter it. The folks I run with work hard, have decent jobs and live tight -- no hidden funding there. I think it's usually the case of sour grapes when the very competitive NYC environment is very much a sizing up the Joneses place. Get educated, get a job (no, a career) you are passionate about and work hard -- the fine livin' comes. I make more money than my parents put together, so my coop-ownin', gentrifyin' success is due to one factor only -- me. Undergrad and grad school? Paid for by me. The three bedroom coop? Bought by me. I live in a building with 14 other apartments full of folks who have moved in within the past year, and every one of them have done it themselves (I'm Board prez, so I've seen the financials). There isn't a trust fund nor a check from mom & dad or an investment banker in the bunch. Non-profit workers, public employees, costume designers, maintenance workers, social workers, teachers, journalists, nutritionists, etc., etc. -- that's the true make up of Prospect Heights today. I've met a number of the Daily Heights posters, and the same story rings through. These people work hard and live mightily. I showed up in Fort Greene 13 years ago with no job and a Jeep full of everything I owned in the world. I sweet-talked a landlord into renting to me on a handshake and a look-in-the-eye promise that I would be employed in a month. Two weeks later I was well-employed and I've never looked back. As a good friend of mine says: "The harder I work, the luckier I get." As much as Gus and the Tom's scene drives me nuts, I think he's the model of success -- passion, service, dedication, commitment, focus and love of what one does to make money. Keep complaining about everyone else, or get off your rear end and make yourself successful. And hey, you might actually be a happier person in the end."The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time."
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I'll be back in NY this fall, at a top law school, on a full scholarship. I read and write Japanese fluently. Planning to do corporate law with a focus on U.S.-Japan business. This is after using the military to pay my way through college since my blue-collar native parents couldn't do it for me. Hard work? I think I'll manage, somehow.
After working on 7th Ave and penetrating the yuppie culture, let's just say I heard "My parents help me out" come out of a young yuppie's mouth more than once, to put it very mildly. Your tenants' financials don't show monthly checks to 'help out' with daily living. It's more common than you think, trust me, I'm really good at getting information out of people. Us street people tend to be pretty sheisty.
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Sheisty? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
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ok, can i, yet once again, ask what is wrong with having parents who help you out? why is this such a dreadful and awful thing? (mind you, i bought my apartment with the money i got when half my family died in a period of 6 weeks, so i guess that would count as "helping me out"... by dying.)what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r.
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brooklynpotter » ok, can i, yet once again, ask what is wrong with having parents who help you out? why is this such a dreadful and awful thing?
Well... it may make those who got little financial help from their parents a little jealous.brooklynpotter » (mind you, i bought my apartment with the money i got when half my family died in a period of 6 weeks, so i guess that would count as "helping me out"... by dying.)
This touches on a serious issue for middle-class parents who are 55-70. Having accumulated enormous wealth, particularly in real estate, at the expense of our generation, by a combination of factors including high inflation after they took out mortgages, they have two choices: transfer some of that wealth before they die, or after.The world will little note nor long remember what we say here. -- Abraham Lincoln -
doctorj » This touches on a serious issue for middle-class parents who are 55-70. Having accumulated enormous wealth, particularly in real estate, at the expense of our generation, by a combination of factors including high inflation after they took out mortgages, they have two choices: transfer some of that wealth before they die, or after.
i'm not really understanding this.what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r. -
I'll try and explain. In the late 60s, a single middle class wage could support getting a mortgage and starting a family, which is what my parents did. For two decades, inflation paid off the mortgage by causing its value to dwindle to nothing, while asset prices and nominal wages rose (even if real wages declined). On that one middle class income, my parents owned their large inner suburban house outright by the 80s, and by the 90s, one house each. We're now back to low inflation and extremely high prices for houses which are owned outright by baby boomers but are very hard to buy into for the young. Everyone has to live somewhere, and the net effect has been a massive, though temporary, transfer of wealth from our generation to the previous generation in the form of large equity and high housing prices -- to those who owned before inflation and the run up in housing prices, and from those who are starting to own now but face cripplingly high entry prices and large mortgages to do so. Since they can't take it with them, that equity has to transfer back to the young; the only question is whether that happens at death, or whether they assist their children into what they took for granted a little earlier.The world will little note nor long remember what we say here. -- Abraham Lincoln
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This is one of the many reaons that we still need death.When the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be regarded as certain.
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BigGuy » This is one of the many reaons that we still need death.
I'm very anti-death.like a smoked meat with an earthy youth overnote -
I recommend everybody do what I'm doing - move the fuck out of this ruined neighborhood.their world is entirely different from ours, a whole different set of rules apply, fierce, natural, savage -- it's the only way they can survive in their world.
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devincf » I recommend everybody do what I'm doing - move the fuck out of this ruined neighborhood.
We'll all miss you so much. -
Carnivore » [quote="devincf"]I recommend everybody do what I'm doing - move the fuck out of this ruined neighborhood.
We'll all miss you so much.[/quote]
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So Dr. J... i guess you are saying that everybody needs a bit of help from their parents these days to live like (or amid simlar circumstances) their parents? (And while I've got an economist on the line - I'd love to know why falling bunds have been pressuring Treasuries this week... seriously)
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