The “perps’’ were first-generation hipsters calling themselves “Occupy Bushwick.” They say they are “in solidarity” with the Occupy Wall Street movement.For more click over to The NY Post
“It’s like Neverland over there,” fumed Angelina Dreem, 27, a yoga teacher who’s lived in Bushwick for four years and owns Body Actualized yoga studio across the street from the complex.
“It’s an adult children playground,” Dreem said. “They’re all, like, subsidized.”
CastleBraid is stacked with amenities designed to appeal to the aspiring hipsters — including a recording studio, a wood shop, a screening room, a gym, a game room and even a digital-media lab.
Monday, December 2, 2013
"New hipsters fight old hipsters in Bushwick"
"CastleBraid, an upscale rental complex marketed for artists, was adorned last month with crime-scene tape reading “Occupy.”
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"CastleBraid partner Mayer Schwartz confirmed that the building got the abatement, but says owners are not required to offer low-income housing because ground was broken on the building before the rules were changed."
Delightful loopholes from our busy-body betters. You mean to tell us regulations, tax pay-backs and subsidies didn't help the little guy? No. Way.
Regulations and subsidies solve everything. Mostly.
The answer is staring at them right in the face. What they need is a:
"Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel with the power to impose cost-saving measures."
The old hipsters should just become "sovereign citizens" and invoke a 'quiet title' and lay claim to the property. Occupy!
Although I do like the Independent Payment Advisory Board idea.
Intergenerational war amongst the Lefties.
Whoda thunk?
Combine the "I'm not going to pay you back" mentality of the Occupy movement with Paul Krugman's creepy "Independent Payment Advisory Board with the Power to Impose Cost Savings" and the "Sovereign citizens -Quiet title" theft, and that right there is some powerful toxic neo-socialist brave new world soup.
Just rename the whole area to Douchewick and it will all make sense.
Makes me so happy to be living in a place that hipsters of all ages would never deign to visit much less live.
20 year old hippy: Comes the revolution, comrade.
40 year old hippy: You don't understand. I've got mine. I'm upscale now, so piss-off.
60 year old hippie - who do you trust now?
Two 16 year old South LA gangsters could take the whole place down and force the hipsters to deliver their stuff, install it in Compton, clean up afterward, and walk themselves home. "And Dude, bring that funky lamp you made in wood shop, and don't smoke any of the weed. It's mine now too."
Body Actualized Yoga!
That was hip back in 1973!
You mean the new hip is the same as the old hip?
Pogo lol
Shouting Thomas said...
You mean the new hip is the same as the old hip?
Yes, because the Independent Payment Advisory Board ruled that the old hipster couldn't get a new hip.
Never trust anyone over 30. Are we still using that?
"Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel with the power to impose cost-saving measures."
= Death Panel
My prediction: imposed cost-saving measures will reduce payments for healthcare services, but total costs will rise.
Same as it ever was.
"..but costs will rise."
And "administrators" will multiply exponentially at ALL levels, federal, state and local..
Doubt me. Under financial pressure and severe restrictions in State funding, the CAl-Berkely system added scads of "Diversity" instructors, inclu the Directorate Head making a high six-figure salary even as they were instituting budget cuts eliminating entire academic Depts, instructors and course offerings..
Well, you have to admit that "Administrator" is a sweet gig anywhere. I'd love to administrate over a pack of hipsters for a nice paycheck. We'd be having human sacrifices every Friday with some unplugged this or that music and a vegan buffet.
Speaking of "human sacrifices" and "vegan buffets," bags, I just heard a GREAT line on an episode of "Bones."While interviewing a suspect owner of a "Green" funeral home & cemetery and defending his business' financial prospects (or lack thereof) as not the basis of the murder of a rival, the owner comments: "...you don't know how much money there is to be made with all this green stuff. All the boomers are dying--driving around in their electric cars and wanting to know the names of the chickens they are going to eat..."
ROTFLMAO!!! What a perfectly encapsulated description of boomer hipsters!
A guilty pleasure of mine is watching the TV show "The Millionaire Matchmaker". Most of the show takes place in my town, so I know the places where the people live and where they have their dates.
Today's show had an attractive female millionaire who was the stereotypical limousine liberal who took her date on a guided "toxic tour" of all the places in town like refineries, and chemical plants, and showed him how close people live to them and the horror of it all, just to test him and see if he would be sufficiently outraged. At one point, they were even commiserating over the tragedy of my own neighborhood. Oh the humanity! It didn't go over real well with the date, but I didn't see how the matchup worked out in the end, because I had to get to work, including driving through the killing fields on the way.
I like the show because it seems more realistic than most reality TV, and yet many of the people are still amazing pieces of work, often with zero self-awareness, which can be pretty funny.
I have no dog in this fight and am hoping for a Pyrhhic victory with the winner obtaining title to smoking desolate ruination.
There's a wood shop? Man, I am so moving to CastleBraid now. I'll get the douchey hat once I get there.
Amartel said...
I have no dog in this fight and am hoping for a Pyrhhic victory with the winner obtaining title to smoking desolate ruination.
Sounds like an awesome time playing Civ 5. :D
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