Hipster

NYC

After 9/11 the city “got woke” with Brooklyn being the unofficial capital of the hipster movement who thought it was going to solve the world through “sustainable startups” and a vegan diet but instead they gentrified the borough turning it cool with concept stores and urban art but made it expensive too — so get your museum tote bag ready to explore the “underground scene” of NYC

Time period: 2010s-now

Movie/book: Downtown 81 (2001)/Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton

Soundtrack: The Strokes/The Velvet Underground

Fashion: odd colors, plaid shirt plus a beanie and a tote bag

Budget:

This tour would you through the Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg: the neighborhoods where industrialist built their factories and warehouses during the Gilded Age/Roaring 20s; and where graffiti started to flourish in the 70s until it became legal in the 90s. The neighborhood is characterized by rehabilitated factories, cobble stone streets, and “sustainable businesses” like: vegan restaurants, thrift stores and artisanal coffee. The tour suggest crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, a walk around downtown with a pizza stop in the morning; the Brooklyn Museum, concept stores and thrift stores around Williamsburg in the afternoon; and to end day dinner at a roof top plus a joint at a park.

Stops:

1 Morning Run Brooklyn Bridge

2 Brunch at Dellarocco's Brick Oven Pizza

3Historic Brooklyn Walking Tour

4 Brooklyn Museum

5 Art Galleries/Concept Stores

6 Thrift Shopping around Williamsburg

7 Dinner at Bar Blondeau

8 Joint at Domino Park