27 Facts About Williamsburg Brooklyn

Since the late 1990s, Williamsburg Brooklyn has undergone significant gentrification characterized by a contemporary art scene, hipster culture, and vibrant nightlife that has projected its image internationally as a "Little Berlin".

Williamsburg Brooklyn had Colonel Jonathan Williams, a U S Engineer, survey the property, and named it Williamsburgh in his honor.

Originally a 13-acre development within Bushwick Shore, Williamsburg Brooklyn rapidly expanded during the first half of the nineteenth century and eventually seceded from Bushwick and formed its own independent city.

Williamsburg Brooklyn was president of the Williamsburg City Fire Insurance Company and built a row of houses on South Second Street.

The First Ward of Williamsburg became Brooklyn's 13th Ward, the Second Ward Brooklyn's 14th Ward, and the Third Ward Brooklyn's 15th and 16th Wards.

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Williamsburg Brooklyn's Broadway, ending in the ferry to Manhattan, became the area's lifeline.

The area around the Peter Luger Steak House, established in 1887, in the predominantly German neighborhood under the Williamsburg Bridge, was a major banking hub, until the City of Brooklyn united with New York City.

In 1898, Brooklyn became one of five boroughs within the City of Greater New York, and the Williamsburg neighborhood was opened to closer connections with the rest of the newly consolidated city.

Williamsburg Brooklyn contains a variety of zoning districts, including manufacturing, commercial, residential, and mixed-use.

North Williamsburg Brooklyn contains primarily light industrial and medium-density residential buildings, as well as some residential structures with commercial space on the ground floors.

Several structures in Williamsburg Brooklyn have been landmarked by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission.

East Williamsburg Brooklyn is home to many industrial spaces, and forms the largely Italian American, African American, and Hispanic area between Williamsburg Brooklyn and Bushwick.

The Hasidic community of Williamsburg Brooklyn has one of the highest birthrates in the country, with an average of eight children per family.

The northeastern section of Williamsburg Brooklyn associated with "Italian Williamsburg Brooklyn" retains a significant Italian-American presence and is home to numerous Italian-American families, community centers, social clubs, businesses, and restaurants, such as Bamonte's, the Fortunato Brothers Cafe, Anthony and Son Panini Shoppe, Emily's Pork Store, Napoli Bakery, Metropolitan Fish Market, Jr and Son, and Salerno Autobody.

Williamsburg Brooklyn itself was represented in the City Council by Dominican American Antonio Reynoso.

Mid-century tension between the Hasidic and Modern Orthodox Jewish communities in Williamsburg Brooklyn was depicted in Chaim Potok's novels The Chosen, The Promise, and My Name Is Asher Lev.

Williamsburg Brooklyn has become a notable home for live music and an incubator for new bands.

Williamsburg Brooklyn is the place where illbient, dark, hip hop-, ambient- and dub-influenced genre of electronic music originated around 1994.

Williamsburg Brooklyn contains indie theater spaces such as the Brick Theater.

Williamsburg Brooklyn's gentrification is the subject of Princeton University film professor Su Friedrich's 2013 documentary Gut Renovation.

The majority of Williamsburg Brooklyn is patrolled by the 90th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 211 Union Avenue, while the northernmost section of Williamsburg Brooklyn falls under the 94th Precinct, located at 100 Meserole Avenue.

Greenpoint and Williamsburg Brooklyn has a relatively low population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive health care through Medicaid.

The outbreak in Williamsburg Brooklyn had been tied to an unvaccinated child who contracted the disease on a trip to Israel.

Greenpoint and Williamsburg Brooklyn generally have a higher ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018.

The percentage of Greenpoint and Williamsburg Brooklyn students excelling in reading and math has been increasing, with reading achievement rising from 35 percent in 2000 to 40 percent in 2011, and math achievement rising from 29 percent to 50 percent within the same time period.

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The project garnered large community opposition from the Latino and Hasidic Jewish residents of southern Williamsburg Brooklyn, located next to the site of the proposed incinerator.

The proposed incinerator was a key issue in the 1989 mayoral election because the Hasidic Jewish residents of Williamsburg Brooklyn who opposed the incinerator were politically powerful.