The Borg are on the move
Whole Foods might be taking over an unprofitable arts center adjacent to high-rise condos full of typographers with food blogs. In other, equally-improbably news, the sun rose this morning and we will all die some day.
Pick up some of that artisanal ketchup with the handlebar mustache on the jar. You know the one. Bring your own bag.
Sure, Brooklyn can probably support another outdoor market, but how many more pop up until we reach the breaking point and hundreds of hipsters die in a horrific Etsy avalanche? We’re all canaries in the artisanal coal mine, people!
Source: gothamist.com
A tipster sends in the above photo of a Five Guys going in on Flatbush Ave and Fulton Street in Fort Greene.
This could present a problem.
Source: ny.eater.com
I wanted to have a general store, with fur and skins. I’ve been hunting and trapping all my life, and I wanted a store where designers could get, like, fucking polar-bear skins. And we’d have toys for kids.” He pauses. “And just a little butcher counter in the back.” Another pause. “And we’d make meat pies for the winter.
The World Map of Useless Stereotypes
My favorite part are the cascading accusations of “yuppie!” circulating Brooklyn
Perfect Hipster Techie Marriage: Ace Hotel and Google
The Ace Hotel NYC is now equipping its rooms and lobby with sexy black matte Google Chromebooks swathed in an Etsy-esque buttoned slipcover and a pre-loaded virtual concierge app, the Ace Hotel New York’s Field Guide. They’re calling them Ace Chromebooks. Wee! Is the Chromebook the new iPad?
Not exactly–the Ace is going for more of a “nerd cool” kinda vibe. “For guests, we’re laying out an extra gift: an Ace x Google designed notebook–with real paper–wearing a John Milton quote from 1634,” the press release says. Chromebook + Ace Hotel + effete literary reference? You just can’t get this kind of cred from the Empire or Airbnb.
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“It’s like the birds aren’t migrating this year; the salmon aren’t swimming upstream,” said Chris Flash, an East Village resident who runs a local bike courier service and an underground newspaper called The Shadow. “The whole ecology of the neighborhood is out of whack.
The visitors are seasonal nomads, crossing the nation in rough accordance with changing weather patterns, heading south or west in the winter and venturing toward the Northeast in the summer months. Many travel along rail lines like the Union Pacific and the Norfolk Southern, hoisting themselves into empty freight train boxcars.
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“That’s not a good sign,” he said. “When one species disappears, others tend to follow.
4/16 Declared Foursquare Day by Mayor Bloomberg
Get it? Cause he’s the Mayor?!?
Kill me now.
But, seriously. This is interesting. Ostensibly it’s a political answer to the question “How come America’s capital city has so few startups?”
There is no better place than New York City to start a business. We are the most exciting and most dynamic place on the planet, an international capital of the arts, fashion, and finance.
I wonder where this idea came from (probably Foursquare), who will benefit more (probably Foursquare), and by what factor cross-promotion is going to get weirder in the coming years (probably 42)
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