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Biking, Brooklyn, and Coffee Fuse to Form Hipster Trend Voltron
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John Del Signore
Published Jun 1, 2010
Modified Jun 1, 2010
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Both Fork in the Road and the Daily News have discovered what has to be the final word in hipster trends: A couple of Bushwick roommates are selling Stumptown coffee out of a DIY traveling street stand transported by bicycle. Called Kickstand Coffee, the stand unfolds out of two 160-pound rolling carts, which each hitch to the back of a bike and hold everything the owners need, from coffee beans to milk and a coffee grinder. When they reach their destination (McCarren Park, obvs.), the carts are unfolded and linked together to create a 9-foot long coffee bar. Naturally, they're selling only Brooklyn-roasted coffee, grinding it by hand, and brewing each cup ($2.50) on the spot. All they need now is to start doing tattoos.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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