February 9, 2010

PXL: Everyplace to See and Everything to Know about New York City

By Fredrick
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Truth be told, I finished this video last week, and had it uploaded for a while now. I guess it's just strange to write about it. I went in to the city a couple weeks ago with my friend Eric Stern because I was having withdraws. I missed the abundant, cheap ethnic food, the waves of people who couldn't care either way what you're doing with an odd camera pointed at them, the busy, dirty streets. I missed my old neighborhood in Brooklyn. I missed it all. So when he dropped me off in Chelsea, I walked from there to Greenwich village, and from there to Chinatown, and from there to Union Square. I even went to Queens to visit my friend Abe at the bar he runs in Long Island City, Dutch Kills. He made me the best ginger ale I've ever tasted.

I guess I was most excited about getting back to Williamsburg. I was dreaming of stuffing myself full of arepas and then buying tons of records at Academy. When I showed up the following morning it was more of a let down than anything. All the gaudy developments that were still under construction are now glistening eye-sores. There are countless shiny new store fronts and the freelancers are all gone. Williamsburg operates now as just another Manhattan extension off the L train. I didn't walk over to South Second, I didn't want to know if it's still little Puerto Rico. If the Potato Cafe was gone, I didn't wan't to see.

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