Time Out - Williamsburg is Dalston

By bigindalston at 20:09 on 03/09/09

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Time Out - Williamsburg is Dalston

By bigindalston at 20:09 on 03/09/09
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According to the latest edition of Time Out, Brooklyn's Williamsburg is Dalston - the hipster HQ of art-rock and grubby chic. Also mentions Tony Hornecker's supper club - The Pale Blue Doo, which I'm sure I chatted to someone about on Twitter recently...

How funny. I used to live in Williamsburg, but of course, what was WAY before it became cool. Honest.

By bigindalston at 20:13 on 03/09/09
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I wonder if Dalston would ever get officially twinned with Williamsburg, that could be cool.

By HannahHackney at 09:11 on 04/09/09
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I lived the first 30 years of my life in Williamsburg, so I've seen the bad and the good and how it evolved to what it is today -- a caricature of its former self. Basically, the coolness reached its apex in the late 90's / early 00's and it all went downhill from there, as young creatives started getting priced out (and into Greenpoint and Bushwick) and entire blocks of homes were razed to build luxury high-rise condos suitable to Wall Street types and foreigners with money. If anything, today's Red Hook is more like today's Dalston: still raw, poorly served by the subway/tube, and relatively affordable.

Sadly, the beginning of the end is when mags like Time Out start writing about your 'hood.

By brooklyn_mike at 16:45 on 04/09/09
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Hey Brooklyn Mike. That’s a really interesting point. Gentrification is certainly something that Dalston is struggling coming to terms with at the moment. Here’s another article from an NYC site published by The Economist about how E9 is London’s hippest postcode:
tinyurl.com/nlu2l6

By bigindalston at 11:11 on 08/09/09
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Dalston's more E8 bordering N16 though, right?

By SpencerH at 14:44 on 08/09/09
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@SpencerH - you're right! Finger slip. I meant E8.

By bigindalston at 18:49 on 09/09/09
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