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i hade a chance to visit the burg in person last week...strange sums it up. all like the giant high rises are by the water and its just spooky walking down the street seeing stalled after stalled project. i counted 1 project actively being worked on. the worst part was i just didnt see the ifastructure for these luzory apts. williamsburg is mostly bars and semingly houses except for bedford park.theres was some intresting modern looking restarants but no luxury amenities in the area really except manhatten across river. the intresting part was you see lots of bmws,audi's etc in the nabe but i just dont get why there there? maybe there all real estate agents. oya and the hipsters, im under 30 and all i can say is LOL.ya i tried 2 pizza places (one was teh 1.25 slice place) and both were terrible.
This is a problem.
For some reason,Williamsburg never developed the infrastructure to become a livable neighborhood for so many people.Lots of hipster galleries and boutiques,bars and a Thai restaurant on every block but no supermarkets, hardware stores ,dry cleaners,tailors or shoe repair places.
Many who live there(and I was one for years) take the L train to Union Sq to shop .Hardly convenient.
Now,the boutiques,galleries and Thai restaurants are starting to close.Maybe they will eventually be replaced by things that people actually need.
well it seemed williams burg was the shining model of how to convert a undesirable area to desirable. the influx of hipsters teamed with youth at least middle class starting turning wiliamsburg to "billysburg" as some would call it. But manys realtors layed claim to the economy forcing manys of that youth out,unable to pay, combined with this new issue in the area what do you thinks lies in the future for the burg? seems to me the obvious solution would be make the buildings lofts or something, but in this economy development has dried up, and the longer it take to develop the hobo spots the harder to get rid of them...what to do,
I was there today expecting to see nice homes all around...quite contrarily, it was pretty ghetto. I don't think I saw one building that didn't have bars on the windows...and it was dirty, my god was it dirty! Got some awesome stuff at beacons and buffalo exchange though. The brewery looked cool (I used the bathroom there).
I was there today expecting to see nice homes all around...quite contrarily, it was pretty ghetto. I don't think I saw one building that didn't have bars on the windows...and it was dirty, my god was it dirty! Got some awesome stuff at beacons and buffalo exchange though. The brewery looked cool (I used the bathroom there).
If you think Williamsburg is ghetto, then you need to spend more time outside of Manhattan.
I was there today expecting to see nice homes all around...quite contrarily, it was pretty ghetto. I don't think I saw one building that didn't have bars on the windows...and it was dirty, my god was it dirty! ......
I mentioned this in another thread. Williamsburg is one of the dirtiest and ghettoest looking neighborhoods in the city but the people who are there don't see it.The streets and empty lots are covered in trash and there is graffiti everywhere.Trash cans in front of every building are spilling out all the time and nobody picks up anything.I lived there for a long time and when I was moving out last year I went through some pictures of the early days. I was shocked at how much cleaner the neighborhood looked 15 years ago ! I didn't realize how it was degenerating aesthetically while I was there. For some reason,they think the graffiti is art so they tolerate it... no,promote it !
The neighborhood where I live now( IN THE BRONX !!!)is much, much cleaner and doesn't have 1/10th of the graffiti of Williamsburg.
It is very strange that people put up with it.
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. But manys realtors layed claim to the economy forcing manys of that youth out,unable to pay, combined with this new issue in the area what do you thinks lies in the future for the burg? seems to me the obvious solution would be make the buildings lofts or something, but in this economy development has dried up, and the longer it take to develop the hobo spots the harder to get rid of them...what to do,
