Hipsters Claiming to Live in "Edgier" Neighborhoods

Saying you live in Williamsburg or Park Slope doesn't mean you're "cool" anymore, but instead attaches a lot of stigma and stereotyping to who you are now.

Williamsburg = trust fund babies wearing a lot of Brooklyn Industries

Park Slope - young married yuppies with babies in strollers

So what is a poor hipster to do to gain edge these days? Why, say you live in the edgier neighborhoods like Bushwick and Red Hook!

"In 2005, the median monthly rent in Williamsburg was $900, according to a New York University report, and $1,090 in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens; in the Lower East Side, it was $1,056.

If those rents sound reasonable, they’re still not cool. Thus the Great Neighborhood Downshift: Where, once upon a time, New Yorkers living just south of Atlantic Avenue might claim to live in Brooklyn Heights, now it goes the other way around. The aspirational neighborhoods are no longer the ones you can’t afford; they’re the ones you’re afraid to actually live in."

Click here to read the rest of the story. Courtesy of the NY Observer. If only I could afford to live in Carroll Gardens...