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Early Addition: Everywhere Either Is Or Will Be The New Williamsburg
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 18, 2014
Modified Apr 18, 2014
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Published Apr 18, 2014
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- Only $175 to sit in a tub full of ramen noodles alone for 30 minutes? Thanks Craigslist.
- Just one loud concert could ruin your hearing forever, which means my hearing has been ruined about 100x now.
- Wu-Tang Clan distance themselves even further from rapper who castrated himself and tried to commit suicide: "Cutting Off your d--k and jumping off the balcony is Just Not the WuTang Way its just something we don't and wouldn't do round here nor do we condone such actions...You must protect the LiGHTSABER."
- The Metropolitan G train station is getting a touchscreen so you can be more hyper aware of the fact the G isn't coming.
- Every place should get a chance to be "the new Williamsburg", petition your local representative today!
- Dare to dream: it's only a matter of time before we get a six layer pizza cake.
- Metta World Peace cares deeply about your eating habits.
- Here's a petition to make community arts and music venue the Knockdown Center legal on their own terms.
- Sir Patrick Stewart has declared war on strollers in Park Slope.
- And finally, we wish we could be doing this right now:
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