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    Berten Gertrude: Original Williamsburg Hipster

    The Smithsonian recently released footage of what they're calling the first "documented gentrification of Williamsburg, BK."

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    Berten Gertrude: Original Williamsburg Hipster

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    Anthropologists are calling this the first recorded evidence of gentrification in North Brooklyn. Discovered at a second-hand VHS shop on Bedford Ave. (no longer in business) this interview from 1991 explores the life of the self-proclaimed "original Williamsburg resident."

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