There is one thing that baffles me about Brooklyn...HOW did they survive the gangs and the mob? NO WAY they opened all those artinanal whatever boutiques without some local ‘involvement’. And they are all sitting ducks for a mugging.
I’ll wager that they get “hit” by gangs and mafia guys more than we know. I have had some interaction with hipsters and they are concentrated progressivism incarnate. Entitled, self-absorbed children in adult bodies living on other peoples’ money (namely that of mom and dad). In many ways, they are a contemporary flavour of the hippies of yore.