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Finally, there's a little something to put a crack in Brooklyn's charming veneer of being some sort of tree-lined gentrification utopia: the Observer reports on the divide between North and South, wherein Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick hipsters have aligned against those from Fort Greene to Park Slope. The edgy Brooklynites to the north have the assymetrical haircuts; their southern counterparts buy their denim at Saks. In the end, they're all some variation of hip, and both think they're smarter than the other side:

"I'm firmly committed to the notion that there's an unbridgeable divide," said a 27-year-old Bushwick resident, who explained that he even feels this way about "literary-minded, quasi-hipsters" like himself who live in the nether regions of the Hills and Slopes and Heights. "I've always felt deeply uncomfortable in Park Slope. And for everything that's hateable about Williamsburg, I have this feeling that they're my people."

Conversely:

"In Williamsburg, everyone's kind of illiterate. Relatively," said Christian, a 29-year-old Williamsburg transplant who moved there from Park Slope and regrets it. "One time I was on the L train, and the girl sitting next to me was reading Women in Love, and I said, 'That's good — have you read The Rainbow?' And she said, 'No, this is my first Lawrence — is it all so deep and philosophical?' And I was like, 'Yeah ... it's literature.'"

Great, so you can all read. Now go back to throwing rocks at one another and keeping Manhattan entertained.

Brooklyn Civil War: It's North vs. South, Ratner Against Ledger [NYO]