{"id":3025,"date":"2007-12-28T06:43:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/not_only_is_macedonia_greek.html"},"modified":"2007-12-28T06:43:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T14:43:05","slug":"not_only_is_mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/not_only_is_mac.html","title":{"rendered":"Not Only Is Macedonia Greek . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . but so is Astoria<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A growing number of college students are uniting online to rescue Astoria’s famous Greek culture from “guitar-playing hipsters” they charge are ruining the increasingly artsy neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Formed a few weeks ago on the social networking site Facebook, the Save Astoria group urges members — about 150 as of late Thursday — to prevent the hipsters from turning churches and cafes into “wasteful art exhibits.”<\/p>\n

Its five organizers, all former or current students at Fordham University, note Greeks’ history of banding together and becoming “a formidable force” during tough times. They ask followers to support only Greek businesses.<\/p>\n

“Invite all your friends and bring public attention to this issue before it is too late!” plead the group leaders, who didn’t return e-mails and phone calls seeking comment.<\/p>\n

“I guess they have a problem with people who go out and free ourselves with our music,” snarled David Guevara, 18, of Astoria, who sings and plays guitar in a rock band.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

For Jared Koeppel, manager of the Guitar Center at Northern Blvd. and 48th St., the emergence of a hipster base in Astoria has been a godsend.<\/p>\n

“I wish that there were more. I don’t think there are enough,” said Koeppel, 30. “We sell more classical guitars than pretty much any store in the world.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . but so is Astoria: A growing number of college students are uniting online to rescue Astoria’s famous Greek culture from “guitar-playing hipsters” they charge are ruining the increasingly artsy neighborhood. Formed a few weeks ago on the social networking site Facebook, the Save Astoria group urges members — about 150 as of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blatant_localism","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}