Grad's Eye for the Good Buy: "The class of 2004 was practically raised on Martha Stewart and shows like 'Cribs.' So they tend to be more design-conscious at an age when their parents or older siblings were content, more often than not, to live with dorm leftovers... This is a generation whose members resist force-fed décor. Instead, they tend to mix a single catalog piece with Internet purchases and items scavenged from garbage bins to create a highly personal look."
See also the the slideshow. Do a handful of New Yorkers make a generational touchstone? Since I am in the middle of unpacking, I can only imagine that the other side of their rooms--the side not photographed--is still full of boxes and piles of books.