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August 8, 2014 Marina Galperina

Bulletproof Stockings, the self-professed “alternative rock” band from Crown Heights, played an early show on the Lower East Side last night in front of Oxygen’s reality TV show cameras and an exclusively female, mostly Hasidic crowd. I realize now I don’t know exactly what “Hasidic” means. The hype hubbub began outside Arlene’s Grocery, with half a […]

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June 10, 2013 Andy Cush

An unlikely group hopes to bring more bike share stations to North Brooklyn: Hasidim for Bikes, a Williamsburg-based organization which hopes to “give a voice to the silent majority of Hasidim who live in Hasidic neighborhoods and want bikes in their neighborhoods.” The Hasidic community in Williamsburg has a long history of battling against bikes–one […]

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May 23, 2013 Andy Cush

Perhaps inspired by the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn’s recent forays into so-called “hipsterdom,” a Jewish group has launched a campaign called “Unite the Beards,” aiming to bring Williamsburg’s hairy masses closer to Hasidic Judaism. In the video above, with the tagline “Hasid and hipster, not as different as you think,” four white guys in various […]

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May 10, 2013 Andy Cush

After coming across this video of a group of Hasidic men intimidating cyclist Rafael Huerta, we reached out to Huerta to ask for his perspective on the incident. He explained that he records all of his bike rides, Russian dashcam-style, for protection in the even of an incident like this one, and that it was […]

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May 9, 2013 Andy Cush

Here’s a firsthand example of the kind of vigilante “justice” Hasidic Jews have long enforced on cyclists in Williamsburg and other areas in which they live. Rafael Huerta was riding his bike home when a Jewish man accused him of slamming into the man’s car, though it’s unclear in the video whether contact was actually made. It looks […]

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