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Sep 08, 2008 08:35

I'm writing this from a mattress tucked in the corner of my little brother's apartment in Williamsburg. Supposedly this (Graham & Montrose) is the bad part of town or something, or at least not a good one - honestly, I can't really tell the difference by feel between this and the other sections of Brooklyn I've been in, but it definitely feels like New York. Or Paris, I suppose, except that everything's spaced too far apart. So far I have three main questions for my exalted readership:
1) What's something amazing to do here that I wouldn't be likely to find on my own?
2) Of the things I *would* find on my own, what's the most must-see thing you can think of?
3) What the *hell* is up with the gender balance in this city!? One hears a lot about how New York has a surfeit of attractive female twentysomethings, but I'd heard the difference was on the order of 1% of the population - looking around, it seems like 10% of the population of the *entire city* is composed of attractive female hipsters, whereas I've seen very few boys who'd fall into that age group, and they *almost exclusively* had attractive and obviously attached ladies or other young gentlemen with them. Is there a neighborhood where all the corresponding straight hipster boys hang out, or is there an inexplicable gap here?
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