Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, and the East River.
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  • Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, and the East River.

We have been saying this for years, but now it’s on Gawker so it must be true.

Gawker conducted a survey with its readers to find the world’s hippest, richest, creative, youngest, poorest and coolest neighborhoods that are comparable to Williamsburg which is commonly referred to as Bushwick and Little Puerto Rico. Surprisingly, Tucson’s Fourth Avenue and Lost Barrio were nominated, by their readers, not ours, as some of the “hippest” spots in America. Do you agree with this?

Should the Foothills be offended? What about Vistas? Sam Hughes is pretty cool, right? Who did they leave out?

This article appears in Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2014.

9 replies on “Tucson Makes Gawker’s ‘Map of Hip America’”

  3. What’s dying about Tucson? I’ve lived here since ’95 and visited since ’77 and there is more going on now than ever!

  4. I think the Catalina Foothills could care less and is probably happy they are not included. I like the “Detroit of the Southwest” myself or “Pothole Capitol of the United States”…..maybe “Tucson: home of illegal aliens, and too many Progressives who can’t run a city and way too much crime”.

  5. I think the hip spot should include downtown, the Barrios, and north to the Campus Farms. The eastside and foothills? Nope.

  6. Eastside is a suburb for the clueless – Oracle Road is sprawl & ripoffs galore. Foothills a nest of the rich & arrogant, central is congestion chaos, and the south side is a ghetto for Latinos & Native Americans. And hip downtown has been savaged by the Feds & RE predators – who dominate completely. The desert is awesome but hard to live in. Pretty freakin hip… I’m thinking that Realtors paid for that article & managed to get it publicized

  8. Ahem – Oracle is on the WEST side of Tucson, not the East. Here’s the easy way to remember directions in Tucson. Find out where the Santa Catalina Mountains (Mt Lemmon) are and remember that they are to the North. (Ok they’re more like NE but this is the way we do things) The Tucson Mountains are to the West and the Rincons (I think) are to the East. Just focus on The Catalinas and you’ll be able to find your way around town for the most part. Since you are new in town, remember that many streets on the west side/downtown change their names as they continue. Get a good old fashioned paper map as machines don’t always point these things out.

  9. Sally, I know my cardinal directions. I meant more at what street should we start considering tucsonans “clueless.”

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