One day in the near future, Vice Media will take over a block in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that once held, among other establishments, Glasslands and 285 Kent, two venues that helped keep indie music alive in New York even as condos sprouted up around them. Here is what they once looked like, and what they look like now.

This

is now this:

And will eventually be a place where 20-somethings scurry around to enrich some of the biggest brands in the world.