And yeah, I’m blindingly white, too. Like, so white I’m translucent.

Um, do you mean, anti-establishMENT? What a strange thing.

I’ve been to that place several times, even though it is ungodly far-away from my neighborhood. So worth it. It’s my little vintage secret! (I have no clue how they stay open, though. I never seen anyone in there.)

I’m over by Canal Jeans almost daily, I go to school over there. DDD? Fair skin types should be careful? I was over there today, and nearly everyday for the past few years, and half the people who live over there are Jewish. I guess they don’t count as “fair (skinned) types.” You don’t much whiter than me, I’m a shining beacon of whiteness, you need sunglasses to look at me, but I’ve never been bothered over there. So “cover up or be hunted”… that’s one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a long time. And for the train ride, you’re taking the 2 all the way to the last stop, you expected that to be quick? Trains in all parts of NYC are screwed up daily, the 2 isn’t an exception. The longer your train ride, the higher the odds are that the train you’re on will be screwed up. Especially on weekends. Try getting to school there everyday.

“Navigating” from the store to the station? I wouldn’t call that navigation. It is literally one block if you know which exit to use, or 3 if you get out at the totally opposite end. I was there today, in Canal Jeans, and got a nice vintage apron and girdle for 15 bucks.

There isn’t much to be purchased there anymore though so it’s not really worth the trek if you’re coming from afar. But, there are a ton of old quirky things there for 5 bucks if you’re into that. The staff is quirky too, which isn’t a bad thing, as the above review implies.

Also, if you *actually* have no money, and aren’t just a hipster trying to look poor while living off your trust fund- its worth checking out. You can get blankets for 10 bucks, sweaters for 5, underwear 4 for 10. If you’re someone who isn’t used to being around people who aren’t white, then don’t go there. It’s a mixed area, mostly people from Brooklyn or other countries; because the US transplants generally won’t venture that far out of Manhattan for an apartment. Which, honestly, is rather refreshing.

Sorry if this response if rude, but I really get tired of people putting down neighborhoods in Brooklyn because they don’t know whats up.

Rest assured that (a) train
connections rate unreliable suddenly tagged
“out of service”[fortitude: we had nabbed a MTA
map at 14th Street, Union Square, Manhattan],
(b) you’ll experience an endless
“subway demographics education”, as to what
c.1820-1950′s Brooklyn had been, but whose present
reality — except for its buildings’legacy —
proves dangerous, dark & depressing: DDD,
(c) navigating to the store from the station
can prove DDD {fair types ought wear tight
knit hats and dark glasses: cover-up, or be
hunted}, (d) store’s staff: weird & nuts!
Store’s ans. device’s announcement proves,
in retrospect, itself telling. In a foreclosed “new wave late 80′s” building; but, “NO BATHROOM for ANY customer”. Store closed suddently!