ppadilha said:And one friend was a gang initiation victim, he took a baseball bat to the face while riding his bike across the Brooklyn Bridge.
are you sure that was gang initiation? i pretty much want to hit every bike rider on that bridge. its full of damn near 1000+ tourists at all moments of the day taking photos and being, ya know, tourists. Yet bikers get 50% of that small ass commuter bridge. Any bike rider on that bridge (especially on weekends) kinda deserves to get beaten. MANHATTAN BRIDGE M'FERS
with that said, sorry to hear bout your homie - no one really needs to get hit in the face.
FYI, with each passing month/year the whole "hipster" williamsburg thing gets harder to swallow. That place has turned over immensely even in my 8 years here, to the point where I barely recognized shit when I am in that area. Not that I have much sympathy for any self-proclaimed hipster, but wburg is pretty much just like chelsea these days.