Say you ’re traveling in a strange fresh city but suddenly find yourself really jonesing for the intimate comfort of pour - over coffee and human beings buns . A Modern app will assist you get hold such amenities in any city you visit , or , more helpfully , allow you to manoeuver clear of them .
TheWhere Is Williamsburg app , which is useable on Io today , was made byKate Ray , a developer who noticed the innate demand of New Yorkers to explain a different metropolis through the lens of their own . “ We ’re immediately like , ‘ So Mitte is basically the SoHo of Berlin , and Kreuzberg is the Williamsburg ? ’ ” she tells Gizmodo . “ ordinarily people are gracious enough to admit our self - centered perspective so we do n’t even realize how uncollectible it is . I made this as a gentle critique of the idea that New York is the marrow of the earth but also because I ’d probably use it while travel . ”
Ray used some highly scientific datasets to incur the most Williamsburgian vicinity : The density of American Apparel stores , advice from her hipster protagonist , andthis Gawker story . But reverence not ! If you take issue with where the Williamsburg is located in your metropolis , the app does take substance abuser input into write up . “ So yes , if enough people take a different neighborhood it would transfer the flag , ” Ray said . Also , if your city is not “ on the map , ” as they say , you will be able to add your pick for the Williamsburg of your town .
Also it ’s important to know that according to the app , the Williamsburg of New York City is … Bushwick .
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