Urban Outfitters Declares: Williamsburg Officially Suburban Now
![(Outlines of) writing on the wall (Outlines of) writing on the wall](/zewski/sites/nbd8/files/styles/source_ratio_600/public/images/photographs/snapshots/2014/03/urban-outfitters-stencil/uo_nboguszewski_20140319-3927.jpg?itok=HzFJ6ekF)
![Laborers prep the wall for the Urban Outfitters signage in Williamsburg Laborers prep the wall for the Urban Outfitters signage in Williamsburg](/zewski/sites/nbd8/files/styles/source_ratio_600/public/images/photographs/snapshots/2014/03/urban-outfitters-stencil/uo_nboguszewski_20140319-3939.jpg?itok=9f9AmUa9)
March 19, 2014
On my way to work from my laptop at my local third-wave coffee shop with free WiFi, I spotted these guys setting up the signage for what's to be a five story warehouse of appropriated subcultural artifacts sold to tourists and post-condo build neighborhood inhabitants as authentically sourced from Brooklyn signifiers of cool, and took a photo with my prosumer point and shoot camera.
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