The Week contest — Hipster displacement

Urban hipster enclaves like Brooklyn are seeing an influx of grandparents from the suburbs who are moving back into the city to enjoy its many cool amenities. What should this cohort of graying gentrifiers be called?

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This week's question: Urban hipster enclaves like Brooklyn are seeing an influx of grandparents from the suburbs who are moving back into the city to enjoy its many cool amenities. What should this cohort of graying gentrifiers be called?

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How to enter: Submissions should be emailed to contest@theweek.com. Please include your name, address, and daytime telephone number for verification; this week, please type "Hipster displacement" in the subject line. Entries are due by noon, Eastern Time, Tuesday, April 8. Winners will appear on the Puzzle Page of the April 18 issue and at theweek.com/puzzle on Friday, April 11. In the case of identical or similar entries, the first one received gets credit. Entries submitted as comments on this web page cannot be considered. All entries become property of The Week.

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RESULTS:

THE WINNER: The Brooklyn Codgers

James Smith, Mill Valley, Calif.

SECOND PLACE: Artificial Hip-sters

Catherine Jacobs, New York City

THIRD PLACE: Generation Rx

Mark Bernstein, Indianapolis

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

The Bridge Work and Carpal Tunnel Crowd

Paul Raff, Santa Monica, Calif.

The Return of the Natives

Joan Mohlenhoff, Monterey, Calif.

Oldies but Hoodies

Maureen McKinney, Warminster, Pa

Rich people

Joan Petty, Prescott, Ariz.

Broken Hipsters

Jerry Lippincott, Lincoln, Neb.

The Brooklyn Boomers

Paul Giorgianni, New York City

Boomerangs

John Kasprak, West Hartford, Conn.

Gen X-Lax

Mark Schaffer, Ballston Lake, N.Y.

Nifty Shades of Gray

Susan Zivich, Munster, Ind.

Greighbors

Walter Henegar, Atlanta

Metromucils

Bill Cherry, Perkasie, Pa.

Guppies (Geriatric Urban Post-Professionals)

Rick D’Arienzo, Marietta, Ga.

Waves of Grayin’

Roger Gilkeson, Washington, D.C.

The Inwardly Immobile

J. Curran, Phoenix

The Walking Dead

Hannah Newhall, Tampa

The Old and the Restless

Philip White, Hillcrest, N.Y.

Gen XC

John Mabbott, Auburn, Wash.

The Gray Mafia

Nadine Warner, Chicago