Rocking Alphabet City

13th October 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Blackmarket Boo: A tutorial on what is cool in New York City - a look at the Big Apple's hottest street style

TODAY I have decided to show you the meaning of cool. “Oh thank you Blackmarket Boo, how kind of you, omg at last omgggg!!!” you respond, which makes me vaguely suspicious. But seriously I have found the land of cool, its name is Alphabet City. I explored this region of Manattan when I was documenting a few neighborhoods for Inside New York, and I found such a great synthesis between street art and people, plus skateboard culture, friendly music venues like Banjo Jim’s, and highly rawthentic trash cans which ESPECIALLY pleased me. Behold! Your As, Bs, Cs.

Hey trash cans didn’t I see you in the intro of Inspector Gadget?

Ha ha. Legends.

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Blackmarket Boo asks: Are we not all unicorns, searching for our cravat? Blackmarket's creative work for a boutique retail chain lets her travel the world to offer you style inspiration from the street. She has studied Classics, creative writing and oil painting at Cambridge University, Columbia University and the Aegean Center for Fine Arts in Greece. She lives in New York.