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[quote=Anonymous]I lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and worked in Manhattan from 2000-2003. Not a lot of crime. Cell phones were just becoming a normal thing for people to have, but we only used them to make phone calls. I walked around listening to music on a Walkman until I got my first iPod in 2002(?) Williamsburg was experiencing its hipster heyday—by the time the Hipster Handbook came out in 2003, any kernel of sincerity in that vibe was pretty much over. The music scene was great— Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. When Radiohead’s Kid A came out, you heard it everywhere—from open apartment windows and cars driving by.

In the city, the women I worked with were obsessed with Sex and the City. (These were bridge and tunnelers, ftr. I don’t know what the real Nyers were up to.) Groups of young women would go out to restaurants made famous on the show and try to figure out who was Carrie, who was Samantha… Magnolia Bakery became a destination overnight.

Foodie-ism was becoming huge. The website Chowhound was a big thing and people would try to find the most authentic, hole-in-the-wall cuisine in far reaches of the boroughs. Long before I got sucked into DCUM, I spent the workday reading Chowhound and Gawker at my very first job out of college. We didn’t even have the internet at our desk when I started there in 2000. We just had to sit there and talk to each other. (Or work.)[/quote]

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