Explore NYC through basketball

[the next guy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/s...w-york-through-pickup-basketball.html?_r=1&hp

I moved to New York City on a lark. No job, no girlfriend, just a healthy dose of big-city wanderlust and a curiosity about the city’s mythical ownership of pickup basketball. Were its legendary courts just New York hype? Also, as someone who imagines himself a baller, would my skills stand up in the street?

This impromptu adventure did not thrill my parents, but, I figured, what better way to explore the spirit of one of the Western world’s most condensed cities than through sports, the great assimilator? I am convinced that some of the city’s truths, if not all of them, are boiled down on its basketball blacktops.

I left Sarasota, Fla., my air-conditioned hometown, for a first-floor sublet in Bushwick, Brooklyn — I know, insert hipster joke here — to seek out the parks and playgrounds of New York City. Here is my report, a little stream of consciousness, a little underreported, full of a bunch of first names and first impressions.

All of it, despite the bruises to my body and ego, is offered with true appreciation and a fast-developing affection.

Nice story if you have time.

 

[Trip]

I looked for solidarity from my team, but they had left me for Big John. I felt like Robin Williams in “Hook” when Rufio momentarily convinced the Lost Boys that Williams was an impostor and they turned against him. It was like that except no one recognized I was Peter Pan. And because no one knew me, I was begrudgingly resigned to get the game after the one that was rightfully mine.

some jewish guy trying to play pick up in NY and then writes about it in the NY times...why am I not surprised its written like this.

 

[the next guy]

some jewish guy trying to play pick up in NY and then writes about it in the NY times...why am I not surprised its written like this.

 

[RicanHavok]

some jewish guy trying to play pick up in NY and then writes about it in the NY times...why am I not surprised its written like this.

IV writes for the the NY Times now?

 

[606onit]

If u look at the photo gallery, AND reads the captions, you already know what kind of "human" mammal/waste wrote this sh1t.

 

[NYC Rebel]

some jewish guy trying to play pick up in NY and then writes about it in the NY times...why am I not surprised its written like this.

These fukking hipsters man.....

 

[I.V.]

IV writes for the the NY Times now?

(i'm not Jewish)

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

These fukking hipsters man.....

my boy in NY says the crime rate going back up to back in the day level right now so maybe these lames aint gonna be as safe in this newly furnished neighberhoods as they thought

 

[lachreyatarbabypits]

The NY Times is a joke now because they hired a bunch of rich kids who became hipsters. I remember one of them was on Bill Maher talking a big hearty bag of fukkery. The fact they made a 6 page article on something that doesnt need one is :snoopworthy: White people need to stop with this people watching shyt. Yes we should be observant of our surrounding but this sounds like some Nigel Thornberry-watching-the-animals-play shyt. And to dude who said the crime rate is going up: If it is its probably by a smidgen and remember its summer so crime rate always goes up in summer and its always Brooklyn raising the rate on their own.

 

[NYC Rebel]

The NY Times is a joke now because they hired a bunch of rich kids who became hipsters. I remember one of them was on Bill Maher talking a big hearty bag of fukkery. The fact they made a 6 page article on something that doesnt need one is :snoopworthy: White people need to stop with this people watching shyt. Yes we should be observant of our surrounding but this sounds like some Nigel Thornberry-watching-the-animals-play shyt.

 

[Trip]

These fukking hipsters man.....

they're able to work these vanity jobs because they're trust fund kids most of the time...

wait, you're 22 and living by yourself in Williamsburgh? yeah, ok...REAL struggle

 

[NYC Rebel]

they're able to work these vanity jobs because they're trust fund kids most of the time...

wait, you're 22 and living by yourself in Williamsburgh? yeah, ok...REAL struggle

I friggin hate that place now.

Went to a wedding there two months ago. It was great, but the invasion of not originally from Brooklyn but calling themselves Brooklynite hipsters just gets under my skin.

My neighbor's uncle is an ol school Italian from Bay Ridge gets worked the fukk up when talking about them hipster. The shyt is PRICELESS. We're all disgusted.

Another Times article regarding the hipster movement. Notice the ol school Brooklyn heads disgust.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/n...ods-are-being-left-behind.html?pagewanted=all

 

[pete clemenza]

Is this article from the "Stuff White People Like" blog?

 

[RicanHavok]

After reading the whole thing I feel like I insulted IV...sorry bruh.

That was just bad. I get the impression he was like Nas staring out the window creating the whole story but didn't actually do any of it.

 

[Clem]

This shyt is goofy as fukk.