I've been less of a presence lately - been kinda busy and stressed out. As a few of you have noticed on FB, I find myself preparing to move *yet again*. I'd wanted to stay on St. Marks for a while, but the place really is tiny and the landlord's upping the rent $100. So bye-bye me.
Good news now, though: we've just submitted an application and deposit for a two-floor 4BR (for the same price as our current 2BR) in the McKibbin lofts, a huge converted warehouse that is home to a large array of creative types. I'll say more in a few days if we get the place.
fingers crossed for ya, bub. (but please don't become a Williamsburg hipster-douchebag)
Yeah, crossing my fingers for ya, too! Sounds like a great place to be. 
yeah, cool. You might live in Billyburg! The first time I went there was back the 80s. very desolate, but super cool spaces. I knew someone who lived in an industrial space, a live/work building with tall ceilings, low floors -
- and large windows. It might be what Soho felt like in the early 70s when the artists types started to gentrify it. I remember seeing a couple hat shops that sold these really expensive beaver fur fedoras made by Borsalino. Of course, the primary customers were Hasidim. Saw a few Orthodox Jews, too.
isn't one of the largest Jewish Congregations HQ'd in W'burg?
ok here's a Jewsish joke for you:
A Jewish sailor was shipwrecked on a desert island and the first thing he did was build two synagogues....
Years later when he was rescued people were bewildered and asked him: Why he built two synagogues... to which he replied.
"Oh that other one... I would NEVER go there!"
