The year is 2062 and the Internet is sooo over. But the last generation to revel in the web's wild and crazy days is still kicking, at least according to this video from the future. Enjoy as these so-called "elderly hipsters" reminisce about social media and digital culture, back when you could get someone fired by simply sharing a photo of him passed out at a Dubstep party: more ›

Some of our fondest moments at University occurred while we were reading College Magazine. What? You've never heard of it? Dude, they taught us that girls totally don't like unshaven faces (except when they do?) and that guys should just put themselves "out there," and that wouldn't it be cool if girls emitted a pheromone that told us they wanted to do it? Now, their exhaustive list of the most Hipster Campuses is out, and congratulations NYU, FIT, and Parsons! Better luck next year, West Point. more ›

Move over "Hipster or Homeless," there's a new Tumblr in town showing the blurry area between Halloween and a regular day in Williamsburg. "Halloween or Williamsburg" is asking for photos of both costumed folks and of the neighborhood locals wearing their regular garb, noting that "sometimes it's hard to tell" the difference. This game is going to get a lot harder when everyone in the neighborhood dresses as Hipster Cop Rick Lee this weekend. Now someone talk us out of being Rubik's Cube Grandma for Halloween. more ›

As the Occupy Wall Street protesters and the media become more familiar with the styles and faces of the NYPD officers charged to watch over Zuccotti Park, "Hipster Cop" AKA 1st Precinct Community Affairs Detective Rick Lee has stood out in a sea of white and blue and drab Law & Order gray. Little is known about Lee—is he gay? Does he have kids? Is he into mumblecore?—but the Sparrow Project has compiled compelling video footage of Hipster Cop in his native habitat. more ›

Today the NY Times examines changes occurring in the post-industrial Hudson Valley, and finds enough people who once lived in Brooklyn to frame the situation in a trendy way we can all understand: "Call it the Brooklynization of the Hudson Valley, the steady hipness creep with its locavore cuisine, its Williamsburgian bars, its Gyrotonic exercise, feng shui consultants and deep clay art therapy and, most of all, its recent arrivals from New York City... So many people have moved to Beacon from Brooklyn that people now call it NoBro." Or as finance columnist Daniel Gross put it, the Times, tiring of "Brooklyn is awesome" articles, has turned to "place to which Brooklynites flee is awesome" articles. more ›

Last we spoke to JellyNYC's jack-of-all-trades Chris Goldstein, he had high hopes for the agency's second go of Rock Beach, a free series of concerts at the Aviator Sports Complex adjacent to the Rockaways. At the first date on July 9, Goldstein said "around 500 or so people" showed up, which may have been considerably less than their Pool Parties, but around what they were seeing at their Rock Yard events in Williamsburg. But according to the Brooklyn Paper, Rock Beach's second effort on July 24 was a "beach-blanket bomb" after "little more than 150 people showed up." more ›

Attention! Attention! The Rockaway Beach boardwalk really is the new Bedford Ave! Hipsters new and old, get in on this sweet deal, because it's not going to last. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get in on the ground level of rapid gentrification! Act now before everyone catches on to the secret, like they're doing with under-the-radar Red Hook. more ›

Someone named Brendon Nelson emailed us today declaring: "I am a Hipster advocate." We kept reading anyway, and found that he simply was asking that we review the below PSA, and do our part to prevent hipster cruelty. And who are we to turn our backs on such fragile creatures? You see, since it's not hip to get a job, and sometimes even parents' credit cards get maxed out, there are hipsters out there right now suffering, and as explained in the video, this causes a chain reaction that could end Williamsburg as we know it: more ›

Last week PAPER magazine hosted a concert featuring Swizz Beatz and... Joe Jonas (the middle Jonas brother, you guys!). The odd pairing came together in Williamsburg at the House of Vans, which in the invite we received is described as an "ultra-cool indoor/outdoor Brooklyn space" offering up Corona, Ben and Jerry’s, and (at least on this night) Nerf basketballs—aka plenty of things to throw at Joe Jonas! The Daily News reports back from what they deem "Brooklyn's hipster capital," saying the 21-year-old Jonas was promptly pelted with the balls once he took the stage, and was further met with cringing, "booing, jeering, and stony silence." more ›

Police revealed new information about the suspect in a Washington Heights sexual assault from last week. Police Captain Jose Navarro gave local residents a description of the suspect, saying he had multiple lip piercings, two nautical star tattoos on the backs of his calves, and was wearing a multi-colored beanie hat... or in other words, he was a hipster. "He had a particular look," Navarro said, describing the hat as "something a hipster would wear." Below, check out a video of the suspect getting stuck in the turnstiles: more ›

It's going to be a tight squeeze for cyclists and walkers on the Williamsburg Bridge starting June 13th, when the DOT will block off the south side pedestrian path for six weeks in order to install new roadblocks at the entrance near South Sixth Street. The roadblocks are intended to "prevent small cars from plowing through the entrance to the bridge’s cycle path," the Brooklyn Paper reports; we imagine they'll resemble the bollards that were recently raised on both sides of the Manhattan Bridge bike entrance. more ›

McCarren Park: Where dominatrixes take their slaves for recreation, where ladies in bikinis and drunken Polish men proudly sunbathe, and where "hipsters" funnel their parents' hard-earned money into the multi-billion dollar Turkey's Nest empire. Also: where women strip naked and start throwing punches during softball practice. Yes, over Memorial Day weekend, members of the Williamsburg softball league got quite an eyeful from a woman described on their website as a "crazy bitch" or, "CB" for short: more ›

Look at that old church, getting hip to the know! After forgiving John Lennon a few years back, organized religion today made another attempt to be cool, this time at the hands of a 37-year-old self-described "hipster" reverend who founded something called the Hipster Church, which is a story we are absolutely not making up. more ›

You've got to hand it to the casting directors at HBO—they sure do know how to target an audience. Behold this amazing gem of a Craigslist ad—"looking for featured Hipsters!" (capitalization theirs)—that the network posted for its Brian Greenberg/ Kid Cudi vehicle about pretty young things just trying to make it in the big city, How To Make It America. more ›

Sure, we have to deal with the endless fare hikes and service cuts on the ever-frustrating MTA, but at least trendy Japanese kids love the look! According to Cosmo Japan, which licenses MTA gear like baseball hats and sneakers, Japanese customers have contributed a whopping $111,332 to the MTA's merch sales in the past year. Why on earth do fashionable Japanese street kids want to be seen in map-adorned sneakers? It's simple, really. more ›

Come April 3rd, there will be a giant handlebar mustache-sized hole in the heart of Williamsburg, after LCD Soundsystem play their farewell show at MSG and hang up their cowbells for good. But thankfully, hipsters won't have to suffer the indignity of sitting around crocheting bike seat covers to year-old chillwave cassettes: TV On The Radio announced that they will release their fourth album, Nine Types of Light, on April 12th. more ›

Meet Patrick Quinn, a Brooklyn man sent straight from Central Casting to the pages of the Daily News, where he appears to fulfill nearly every cliched notion of what makes a hipster. Quinn is a blacksmith who makes hand-crafted belt buckles that can hold your MetroCard—they cost $125 each and they're sold on Etsy. It's as if the News sent out a Hipster Stereotype Survey to Brooklyn residents and Quinn came back with all the right answers. But reached by phone today, Quinn shockingly revealed that his hipster credentials are less than sterling! more ›

In 2009 someone stole the pink goat that hung above the door of Cabrito in the West Village. Later that year, miscreants absconded with the Statue of Liberty replica from progressive Ditmas Park cafe Vox Pop. Now the latest establishment to lose iconic furnishing to theft is Park Slope's Barbes, where someone filched a small bust of Venezuelan physicist and do-gooder José Gregorio. Luckily, the bar has a pretty detailed description of the perp. In an e-mail to City Room, waitress Grace Kendall provided this description of the slightly drunk guy she thinks stole Gregorio: more ›