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Williamsburg, Brooklyn


Williamsburg, Brooklyn is a young hipster, Puerto Rican, and Hasidic neighborhood.

Northern Williamsburg is hipsterlandia.

Southern Williamsburg is Puerto Rican and Hasidic.


N 12th St | Nassau Ave
East River | Williamsburg | McGuinness Blvd
Kent Ave | Flushing Ave


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Williamsburg Features

National Sawdust (jelenaaloskina/Adobe)

National Sawdust

Winter JazzFest Brooklyn Marathon: jazz 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇮🇳
Composers Now Festival: classical new music 🇨🇺
WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn

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New York Comedy Festival (Rido/Adobe)

New York Comedy Festival Makes America Laugh Again

IT’S ALL OVER Chelsea, Midtown, Times Square Theater District, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Manhattan
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Giglio Feast, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast Williamsburg (Rebekah Burgess/Dreamstime)

Giglio Feast at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Church is an Italian Street Fair with Giglio Dancing

SHRINE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇮🇹

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Italian Street Fair

The Giglio Feast at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Church is an Italian religious festival and street fair in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, from Wednesday, July 10 to Sunday, July 21, 2024. The festival peaks around Giglio Sunday on July 14, and the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. 🇮🇹


Little Berlin


Williamsburg is sometimes called “Little Berlin.”

New York City’s contemporary art scene started in SoHo in the 1970s, moved to the East Village in the 1980s, crossed the East River to Williamsburg in the 1990s, before jumping to Berlin.



Los Sures


The Southside, south of Grand St, is a Puerto Rican and Dominican neighborhood. It’s changing like everywhere, but Los Sures still has a large Hispanic community.

Graham Ave between Grand and Broadway is the “Avenue of Puerto Rico.” Havemeyer St also has many Hispanic businesses. The Moore Street Market is also known as “La Marqueta de Williamsburg.” It’s a World War II era city market that is now mostly Hispanic.

Central markets are the center of commercial life in Hispanic towns around the world. They are like La Placita in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. It’s a central market by day turns into a ring of restaurants and bars by night.

Los Sures is the home of Caribbean Social Club, known in the community as Toñitas, the last Puerto Rican social club in New York City. It’

Toñitas
244 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211



Williamsburg Music


  • Brooklyn Bowl brooklynbowl.com
  • Music Hall of Williamsburg
  • National Sawdust
  • Toñitas

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Williamsburg Government


  • Local government is Brooklyn Community Board #1 and the Brooklyn Borough President.
  • City government is New York City Council’s 33rd and 34th Districts.
  • Federal government is New York Congressional District #7.


Williamsburg Parks


  • Domino Park
  • Marsha P Johnson State Park
  • McCarren Park


Williamsburg Shopping


Bedford Avenue north of Metropolitan is Williamsburg’s main shopping street. There is good vintage and hipster clothing.



About Williamsburg

Williamsburg is Native American Lenape land. Dutch colonized it in 1638. It became a city in 1855, and part of New York City in 1898.

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