New York Shitty Day Starter: I Commodify NY

September 9, 2010 by missheather
Filed under: 11222, Culture War, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic

My humble blog has gotten a great deal of traction over the last year. I have garnered readers as far flung as the Philippines, Japan, Australia, Germany (I’m pretty big there), Sweden, Romania and Great Britain to name a few. But what follows is, dear readers, much closer to home (READ: from my inbox) — and yet so far away.

I am increasingly finding press releases of this variety in my inbox. Exactly who in Greenpoint can and would outlay $575 for this bracelet at Bergdorf Goodman, I do not know. As for nails shot to shit by shopping bags, I am all too familiar with them: because I fill said shopping bags. For customers.