Hipsters’ Response to the Financial Crisis?
If the country is really headed into another Great Depression, at least young New Yorkers are going down in (historically appropriate) style. In Williamsburg and the Lower East Side, the resurgence of feathers, vests and newsboy caps are a fashionable response to the plummeting Dow.
December 2008

A gamut of new old-timey eateries is springing up in Williamsburg. At the recently opened Walter Foods on Grand Street, bartenders wear bowties and make perfect Old Fashioneds.
December 2008
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