When the Times published its latest installment of “The Hunt” with the headline “In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Room for a Baby,” you just knew the “go back to Tribeca” crowd was going to come out in full force. The story of the couple behind Spanish Hipster trying to use some inherence money to “get out of the city” and ditch their cramped, $3,600-a-month studio in Union Square for a sensible $1.5 million condo in Williamsburg was clearly an act of trolling, or it wouldn’t have started with quotes like “Brooklyn is not New York; it is so far away from everything.”
We’re told the couple found a $1.395 million pad on Havemeyer Street whose sellers “had perfect taste, parallel to our own,” but the bloggers’ plan to “architect it out and make it work” fell through when they lost it to someone else — presumably the couple behind FrenchHipster.com. Anyway, the hunt goes on from there, to the chagrin of pretty much every New Yorker who doesn’t have cruising-for-condos money. The most exasperated reactions below.
This @nytimes article made me cry a million tears on the inside. http://t.co/SqSBNp3P6t
— Erin McAuliff (@erinmcauliff) February 5, 2015
hipsters, renting at $3600pcm, receive inheritance, buy "light, airy" apt in brooklyn for only $1.5M, bohemia is dead http://t.co/MlRA3yDEXQ
— otolythe (@otolythe) February 5, 2015
In this photo: rich people MT @NYTOnIt: GUYS, hipsters, Billyburg, these people, that photo. NYT Real Estate is ON IT http://t.co/3loBvo2HfJ
— Gregg Meluski (@gmeluski) February 5, 2015
the thing that gets me is why anyone would allow the NYT to report on their search for the perfect airy 1.5 million dollar Wburg 1-bedroom
— Emily Gould (@EmilyGould) February 6, 2015
wouldn't it be simpler to just march down the street handing out pamphlets that say "I'm terrible, AMA"
— Emily Gould (@EmilyGould) February 6, 2015
@imjasondiamond this can't be real though right? http://t.co/3cQzVLes85? using "architect" as a verb? pilfered subway sign? THAT PHOTO???
— anna b (@annapbond) February 5, 2015
Brooklyn-hating Williamsburg gentrifiers reportedly have no "job" outside of this http://t.co/ZjNWWxJnUf Smells like mom and dad's $$$
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) February 5, 2015
Can we just admit that The Hunt is an operation conducted by proletariat double agents to instigate a class war? http://t.co/ZXziTLmcK9
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) February 5, 2015
Will you join in my crusade/ Who will be strong and stand with me
http://t.co/RpdQf5HIdC
— Oriana Schwindt (@Schwindter) February 6, 2015
I am starting to think that NYT Real Estate section photographers are purposely trying to hasten the Revolution http://t.co/4uCOyVNm8s
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) February 6, 2015
Why this long article on a wealthy couple struggling to find a roomy apartment in Williamsburg exists, I don't know: http://t.co/LqgdX0gmgQ
— Andrew Katz (@katz) February 6, 2015
the struggle of the rich trying to use inherited wealth to buy property in williamsburg. heart rending! http://t.co/pE5TWShmRt
— sean ford (@seanonlyskin) February 5, 2015
This NYT story may be annoying, but it's worth it for the end when the apartment bursts into flames with them inside: http://t.co/zWMOEewJ2X
— David Klion (@DavidKlion) February 5, 2015