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(Vanishing New York) Amusing Old-school NYC metalworking shop realizes second life after being sold to real-estate sharks back in 2008, stays standing as pop-up holiday gift boutique selling monocles and artisanal yurts   (vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com) divider line 15
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Ennuipoet [TotalFark]
2011-12-05 01:31:29 PM
It's hard to a get a decent Yurt in Manhattan, there are tons of Chinese knock-offs where the hide stitched come undone the first time you put your yurt up at Zuccotti. Sure, there are couple of places in Brooklyn, but who wants to go all the way the Boroughs for your Oxhide needs?
 
Smeggy Smurf
2011-12-05 02:40:48 PM
Second life? Farking furries
 
God Is My Co-Pirate
2011-12-05 02:45:34 PM
Who says hipsters are good for nothing?
 
Somaticasual
2011-12-05 02:58:21 PM
Maybe he didn't like being attacked by hordes of scripted beach balls?
 
Lt. Col. Angus
2011-12-05 03:21:47 PM
Did you say "yurts?" What, pray tell, is a "yurt?"

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IrateShadow
2011-12-05 03:31:31 PM
Overprices yurts sold in an urban environment? Shop Named for Kerouac characters? F*cking hipsters.
 
Manfred J. Hattan
2011-12-05 03:39:46 PM
I'm all in favor of a NY-centric media but "new building owner finds tenant" is really stretching it.
 
MadMonk
2011-12-05 04:04:12 PM
God Is My Co-Pirate: Who says hipsters are good for nothing?

Me but I stopped saying it a couple of years ago when it became too popular a thing to say.
 
barefoot in the head
2011-12-05 04:15:08 PM
Hey little boy, With your nose pressed up against the metalshop window. There ARE no yurts for you today ... Only death!
 
groppet
2011-12-05 04:48:59 PM
I like the old school phone number on the building. A few years ago they tore down a building here and on the wall next to it was the old advertising and phone nuber like that for the painting supply store that was there decades ago the number was like that.
 
twat_waffle
2011-12-05 05:49:20 PM
MadMonk: God Is My Co-Pirate: Who says hipsters are good for nothing?

Me but I stopped saying it a couple of years ago when it became too popular a thing to say.

I wouldn't say that they are good for nothing... The hipsters here made farmers markets popular, which means that I can buy really good food (especially cheese) at reasonable prices in the spring, summer, and fall. The local grocery stores stock some really good food (like this awesome Irish cheddar) to cater to them, too. They also do a lot of local shopping, which helps my city.

Aside from the economic and culinary benefits, they are good for nothing, though.
 
ProfessorOhki
2011-12-05 06:34:07 PM
Manfred J. Hattan: I'm all in favor of a NY-centric media but "new building owner finds tenant" is really stretching it.

1) It's some guy's blog
2) focused on "a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct"
 
aspAddict
2011-12-05 08:37:52 PM
Smeggy Smurf: Second life? Farking furries

The flying penii and screaming Spongebob cubes always freaked me out a little.
 
Kanemano
2011-12-05 11:22:05 PM
That blog made me sad, now that I know that so many parts of my childhood in NYC are gone forever.
 
foo monkey
2011-12-05 11:33:28 PM
wtf is this headline? He bag she said slackjaw?
 
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