Ethnic Avenue – The Street That Crosses All the Others

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For a while now, I’ve suspected my neighborhood was developing a serious hipster problem. Admittedly, it’s pretty hard to live in any decent apartment-dense area in a major U.S. city without running into at least of few of these characters, with their manicured beards, year-round beanies, and two-sizes-too-small striped sweaters.

But, one day, I looked up and saw this.

There’s nothing like a pair of “old-school” high-top Nikes—except maybe a pair of girlish skinny jeans—to telegraph hipster. It’s probably no coincidence that right below this hipster territory mark is:

• a store that sells turn-tables and other equipment for “DJs” (a common hipster pastime);
• an ostensibly “dive” bar, frequented exclusively by mid-to-late 20s city transplants;
• an “ironic” t-shirt and skateboard store.

I guess this is—to the extent that these wimps are capable of it—a hostile hipster takeover.