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Williamsburg: Not just for hipsters

Forget everything you've read. Williamsburg really is more than a hipster habitat.

The scene on the neighborhood's main drag Bedford Avenue, however, does not exactly give this away. The sidewalks are thick with roaming twenty-somethings sporting black skinny jeans, huge sunglasses, and very little body fat.

"It's becoming a youth demographic. I know people in their 40s who say, 'I...

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