Jan 10 2006
Peddling Hipster Smut on Smith Street
Some people say groping leads to sex. I say, it’s simply the foreplay before an American Apparel store opening–this one in Cobble Hill at 237 Smith right next to Banania. I actually like the label’s anti-sweatshop rhetoric, but I can’t help taking a jab at the ultimate hipster seal of approval in a neighborhood. Previously, a pit stop for form-fitting T-shirts opened in Brooklyn Heights. According to the company’s website, a store is also planned for this corner of Park Slope. Happy shagging, I mean shopping. (For more barely-there advertisement pics, check out BlogNYC.)
18 Responses to “Peddling Hipster Smut on Smith Street”
Is that technically Boerum Hill (because it is north of Degraw AND on the east side of Smith)?
I just can’t remember the boundaries …
Hell, who knows.. let’s just label it BOCOCA. That’s just so much easier, why make the effort to figure it out. Nobody cares anyway. (I’m kidding of course)
According to SmallTownBrooklyn (which I love), Boerum Hill starts at Warren Street.
No comment on AA, but I think the building is great. But I dont know much about it. Looks new but fits the street really well and has great details- which makes me think it was renovated. Anyone know?
let’s just label it BOCOCA
Aggghhh! Noooo! Do NOT succumb to the lame acronym disease. Boerum, Cobble and Carroll deserve their own identities.
Next thing you know the South Slope, Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park will be called SLOWINSET or maybe SOSUWI.
If I remember correctly, they tore the building down to its steel girders, and then totally rebuilt. Don’t know if that constitutes as a renovation or new construction.
How about SoSuSor? Then adopt some cutsy Dinosaur logo..
I’m way with Dope. As tightly woven into each other as those neighborhoods are, their identities really are vastly different.
I used to live in Carroll Gardens. When we sold (it hurts to even type that) the building, the Corcodevil wanted to list it as being in Cobble Hill. I nixed that idea off the bat – how could I ever look in the mirror again even pretending I was from Cobble Hill!
Who cares? Those ads are hot! The stores run video…
There’s already an AA store on court like 5 blocks away… is AA going to be the new Sbarro’s?
One on every corner?
Or like a Duane Reade of clothes…
I could better scratch my social-conciousness itch by buying a cheap crappy sweatshirt at Target and donating the extra $50 to a relief/hunger org.
What! You don’t want to support the empire of one self-pleasurer?
Why on earth would you complain about this store going in?! I mean, smith street has stayed free of franchises for way longer than I ever thought it would. There is not even a tasty delight. So when Smith Street finally gets a business that is part of a chait, I think it is testament to how cool smith street is that such a cool vendor moves in. This just shows that people will complain abotu anything.
That’s funny.. I don’t see anyone actually complaining about AA putting a store on Smith St… Actually, I see a lot of jeers made about the ADs and president of AA. Maybe some jokes about how AA now has a store on ever corner in the city.
Complaints about AA? No! Sarcasm? Yes!
Actually, I’m surprised the same people who trashed the new PJ Hanleys or that store Something Else haven’t been on here to voice their complaints yet.
I’ll put in a complaint about complaining about complaining…
There goes the neighborhood!
Any AA stores here are a disapointment. This place is cool because its not LA, nothing like it. Let’s keep California culture out of here as best as we can after all its everywhere else and so boring and empty. Encourage Cali types to move back, its warmer (the temperature anyway)!