That's funny... I used to got to NYC all the time for tourism and stuff. I admit I sometimes looked like a tourist, but what can you do. It was so much fun, though. I used to live in PA and would book hotels in NYC at hotels-in.com. So much fun -- memories I'll never forget.

I find it pretty strange that mostly middle-class, suburban out-of-towners are going to Williamsburg to watch mostly upper-middle-class, suburban transplants live in NYC. That being said, nearly everyone's gotten crap for emigrating to NY over the course of its history, but I'm none too worried that repetitive Innernet comments are going to hurt the prepster/yupster/whatever you wanna call them (yurdster?) contingent.

So much hilarious rage about this itty bitty neighborhood.

I live in Bushwick and saw a couple of tour groups around the Morgan stop over the summer. Pretty ridiculous.

The tour group search for meaning continues...

progression of comments on williamsburg articles on gothamist

williamsburg is SO OVER --> it was ALREADY over --> art is dead --> huge meaningless debate about what qualifies as art and what is important about those who make it --> snarky comments about trust funds

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williamsburg is SO OVER --> it was ALREADY over --> art is dead --> huge meaningless debate about what qualifies as art and what is important about those who make it --> snarky comments about trust funds --> overview

oh, boy! Tons of comments on the Williamsburg post.. again. For those who really have a disdain for this part of Brooklyn, adding all your hateful posts still is equal to more people reading more advertisements on this site when it comes to Williamsburg articles.

But if you really hate the burg, maybe it's time to take a tour of the not as smart as a fifth grader landscape that fits between chelsea and oakland, california. You'll be loving every part of Brooklyn in no time.

Williamsburg sucks.

Hipsters without their money are useless and worthless bums.

-You heard it here first.

so. the gothamist shouldn't write anything about williamsburg anymore?

that seems sorta like, it wouldn't be the gothamist. i wish people wrote about my neighborhood. or i wish i had enough money to live in a nice apt and do whatever i wanted.. all the time.

i didn't know there were tour groups in willamsburg, last time i was there i just dropped something off to a friend at the train station. so i thought it was interesting to know.

Wow! Tourists in Williamsburg! Let's take a picture of them! Let's blog about it. Let's tweet about it. I just shit in my pants just thinking about tourists in Williamsburg...

if the artists who moved in 10 or 15 years ago got rent stabilized apartments, they could still be there. but the ones in illegal lofts have probably been long since kicked out so the buildings could be turned into condos.

the hype over Williamsburg/hipsters is created by the people who make a fuss about it. even the jackasses I work with (who would blend right in on Bedford and hang out there) are constantly bitching about hipster this and hipster that. who cares?!? fine. apparently lots of people. people who need a new topic of conversation.

They've had guided tours in this neighborhood since at least last winter. How come it can't become news until there's a photograph of it?

ps...headline reads "Williamsbug"

Future resident tours.

Give them credit for leaving Manhattan at least. I get gawked at around 20 times a day near both home and work by tourists ducking under traffic lights on top of double-decker buses. I wonder if anyone's ever stood up on one of those and been knocked out by a tree branch or whatever.

They've been doing bike tours of the area for years now. Lots of "there used to be industry here, now there's that guy" comments by the guides.

I don't understand how artists afford to live in neighborhoods like that.

"in neighborhoods like that" - like what?