i used to want to throw bricks through their office windows on bedford. and when i saw the billowing smoke from n6 and bedford, i jumped for joy. hope that shit burns the fuck down.

#26

you're right.. how dare someone try to sully the good name of "the hipster."

Maybe they should be called Yupsters.

don't let that thrift store corduroy sports jacket fool you, most of these people (hipsters) have money.

newsflash, most of the students in expensive liberal arts colleges have money, then then go work for daddy and get a job with daddy's help.

this is not your average TCI student.

#25

A hipster is not the same as a yuppie wearing a hipster mask. The kids with parents to fund a condo never were hipsters, and will never be. Just a child of yuppie.

[19], a hipster is just a yuppie in a t-shirt. Status obsessed, lots of material possessions, etc...

jewish lightening.

I like how people claim to know the bank accounts of other peoples parents.

Because the New York Times ran an article on people helping their kids buy apartments in the city and Williamsburg was a popular choice? Or maybe because I don't know too many people under 30 that didn't get help in buying their first apartment? STFU.

Dobkin started all this with his "Hipsters on Fire" post. Frankly I don't give a shit if hipsters are on fire.

... "aren't"

Are you people over hipster jokes already? Seriously, it's such a bore.

I like how people claim to know the bank accounts of other peoples parents.

Start picking on people who deserve to be picked on - like yuppies. After all, it's their fault that these over-priced apartments are popping up everywhere.

#17, No, but hipsters' parents do.

Hipsters don't have $500K to buy a condo. C'mon, Gothamist, you're better than that.

#12: "LEAVE THEM ALOOONEEE! THEY'RE HUUUUMANS!!!"

It's ironic in the Alanis Morissette way.

Please ban #12. Thanks.

irony-

the paradoxical nature of reality or the contrast between an ideal and actual condition, set of circumstances, etc., frequently in such a way as to stress the absurdity present in the contradiction.

irony can and does exist in the world outside of plays, socratic dialogues, and thrift store t-shirts.

I think its an ugly building and a blemish to the skyline (Nothing really to do with gentrification or 'hipsters'). The photo of this luxury condo building, intended as a chic waterfront property, on fire and failing to serve it's 'majestic' intention, is ironic to me. But maybe thats just me...

good god, sorry to upset you with my choice of words, #5. im surprised i even took the time to explain myself, but it was just too irritating.

WHO CARES is someone is a "hipster" or not, you shouldn't be making fun of people who may be hurt you A**H*&LES.

that thing is ugly, karma rises again.