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Re: Where to get a cheap Brazilian Wax in NYC?
Posted by: Red (cpe-74-72-176-36.nyc.res.rr.com)
Date: July 08, 2008 04:34AM

Isn't that like "discount sushi" - a false economy? I wouldn't want the lowest bidder poking around in my privates.



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I miss Red too! I should post this on his LinkedIn. When I read Miss Red, I thought you were posting about Little Red

Well ... Williamsburg doesn't really have artists any more. It has the people who follow artists: hipsters, young folk with both money and time, attractive twentysomethings in skinny jeans. They drove up the prices so the artists can't live there any more, but there are still a lot of galleries and probably the kinds of shops you like. You want to focus on Northside Williamsburg, which centers along Bedford Avenue between N 1 and N 11 Streets. If you go a little further north into Greenpoint along Manhattan Avenue, you'll find a Polish immigrant neighborhood becoming slowly overrun by hipsters, but still with Polish immigrant flair.


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Rego Park is a very nice neighborhood, kind of suburban, very quiet. Depending on where you are, it could be winding streets of one-family homes and apartment buildings. There are some big-box stores on Queens Boulevard like Target, and you're walking distance from the livelier shopping area in Forest Hills. There's also a big former-Soviet-Jewish presence and you'll see some businesses with signs in Russian, Hebrew or even ... it is Uzbek? I think it's Uzbek. You're near the end of the R line, so you'll probably get a seat. Commute ... could be better, could be worse.

Elmhurst is different. It's louder, more crowded, more full of immigrants. There's a certain level of electricity and diversity you feel in Elmhurst that you don't feel in Rego Park. There's also a certain level of dirt and crime you feel in Elmhurst that you don't feel in Rego Park. You're a few stops closer to Manhattan on the R train, and your building is likely to be full of people from Asia and Latin America. The restaurants are divine if you like those cuisines.

I live very near both of those neighborhoods ...




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