Photo by Eric Wolman
Girl on the L train with heart fishnets.
Archives for October 2010
Reading About the Dive Bars of North Brooklyn
I realized in a recent moment of adult-onset anxiety just how many of the bars I’ve gone to in Williamsburg over the past couple months look like upscale hunting lodges. We’re in the midst of an explosion of places with communal tables built of great, rustic pine slabs or steampunk light fixtures fitted with antique, Edison-esque bulbs. Everywhere, it seems, someone is handing me some kind of grapefruit-y Bavarian Weissbier in an elegant, footed glass specific to its brand. Bar menus with warm goat cheese salads are rampant.
In some ways, that’s to be expected. We are the tamed frontier of condo country, after all. But for all the fancypants joints that are popping up all over, Williamsburg and Greenpoint still have their fair share of the kinds of places where you can put a dollar in a jukebox, get a PBR and a shot for $4, play Big Buck Hunter, and never have to worry about mispronouncing “Weihenstephaner.”
The Daily Photo + Links, October 21, 2010
Photo by Eric Wolman.
House of Vans launches in Greenpoint.
Donovan Campaign Admits It Jumped The Gun With Endorsement.
The Daily Photo + Links
Photo by Beauty and The Tattoo in Williamsburg and Greenpoint
Tattoo by Dave C. Wallin from Eight of Swords Tattoo. Photographer Briscoe Savoy 2008
By Elvire Camus & Arnaud Aubry
Tattoos everywhere. On every arm, calf, neck, and back. On boys and on girls. Not only a tiny butterfly on a wrist or a “Mum” etched on a shoulder, but whole sleeves and chests covered with Japanese or traditional American tattoos. That’s what the “hipsters” of Williamsburg/Greenpoint proudly display as they stroll along the streets of their neighborhood. But not only hipsters. This phenomenon now decorates a much wider slice of the population, including lawyers, bankers, doctors, and cops. Interviews with tattoo artists, teachers, residents, and sociologists helped us to understand that tattoos—formerly for those on the margins—are now the new aesthetic for North Brooklyn.