Heroin-addict hobos from around the country are overrunning hipster haven Williamsburg – living in stalled luxury condo projects in the trendy Brooklyn neighborhood.
Squatters said 510 Driggs Ave. is a “shooting gallery” – a hot spot for heroin. The site, developed by Kalmon Dolgin, was slated to be a 50-unit luxury rental with penthouses fetching up to $5,000 a month. Kalmon Dolgin didn’t return calls for comment.“This is not Haight-Ashbury,” said Community Board 1 member Evan Thies. “This is a family neighborhood.”
Two things: one, these are spoiled hipster kids of yuppie parents, college dropouts who dropped out to continue their degree at Party U. Two, it’s pretty obvious Evan Thies has never actually been to Haight-Ashbury. Otherwise, he’d have put his hands in his head and cried “oh god why has this become Haight-Ashbury.” Or he drove by in a tourist bus, on of the scared, frightened upper-middle-class that don’t realize their fear is the worst thing about the place (well, that and every other shop if for hippies to fill their filthy bong-holes with new bongs).
Well, good luck Williamsburg. You thought your dropout kids went to H-A and that was gonna be that. Now that other dropouts are coming to squat in your neighborhood, it ain’t so funny, is it?