Hipsters are in season on Orchard Street.
The bustling Lower East Side corridor was recently named the “coolest” in America — and one of the coolest in the world – though locals say it’s been a trendy celeb hangout for decades.
The historic street earned the No. 9 spot – and the top slot among other US cities – in Time Out magazine’s annual ranking thanks to its timeless blend of old-school New York and youthful innovation across dive bars, tattoo shops, al fresco dining and even a new photobooth museum, the outlet wrote.
“It’s hip, happening, and historic—all at the same time,” Mark Miller, current director of the Lower East Side Partnership and a former gallery owner told The Post, alluding to the locale’s rich turn-of-the-century immigrant history.
“Nowhere else do the old and ne

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