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Things I Miss Just a Little Bit: The Butler Street Coin-Operated Laundry

I do miss having a laundromat on the block. I miss having my quarters sometimes count. I miss my few dryers which didn't have holes cut into them to collect the loose change fallingfrom tumbling pockets. I miss my triple-loading machine that was labeled for $4 but would secretly accept $3.75. I miss the washer that had a broken door needing to be slammed extra hard to seal it but when people didn't know this after they put in their money they walked away and I would use it at their expense.

Laundromats are certainly plentiful in Williamsburg but they're often crowded and not as convenient as the one next to the crib in Lawrenceville. And their character is different. Here I just don't stumble into conversations like I did back in Lawrenceville. Perhaps this is because of the more expensive clothes being washed and their respective cleaners. Or perhaps its because of the meta-irony of torch-bearing hipster dirtbag culture making an effort to maintain some degree of cleanliness.