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Outer borough trend alert: People in Brooklyn are all riding scooters! The Vespa dealership in Clinton Hill is raking it in, allegedly because the rising price of gas, cost of parking, and traffic jams are making car ownership less and less appealing. Plus zipping around on a shiny Italian two-wheeler is obviously the perfect way for Brooklynites to express their innate superiority to everyone. [The Brooklyn Paper; see also Vespa owners]