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Williamsburg

Fed by the ultra-convenient L train into Union Square, Williamsburg is one of the hottest neighborhoods in Brooklyn, brimming with artists, galleries, cafes, fashion boutiques, restaurants and nightlife. Its multi-generational Polish, Italian and Hasidic residents live side-by-side young trendoids, hipsters and professionals attracted to the area’s vibrancy.

Williamsburg’s Bedford Avenue stop is a mecca of inventive restaurants, eclectic bars and funky shopping — while its surrounding streets are low-rise walk-up apartment dwellings and warehouses that have been carefully transformed into artists’ and musicians’ homes and entertainment loft dwellings.

First-time home-buyers are pleased by the many affordable condos and modern loft conversions that pepper the area ranging from $300,000 - $1,000,000. These are spacious alternatives to downtown Manhattan’s East Village and Lower East Side artists’ spaces.

Williamsburg also benefits from the May 11, 2005 City Council approved rezoning proposal for nearly 200 blocks in its northern section and with its neighbor to the north, Greenpoint. According to the New York City Department of City Planning Web site: “In its Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning, the Department of City Planning proposed zoning changes to allow for housing and open spaces, in tandem with light industry and commercial uses, along two miles of Brooklyn’s East River waterfront and upland neighborhoods.”

“In two vibrant communities as well as areas that have been mostly vacant and derelict for years, the proposal would create opportunities for thousands of new housing units, including affordable housing. And the proposal offers a blueprint for a continuous publicly accessible esplanade and new public open spaces along the waterfront, forging long-sought links between the water’s edge and the established Greenpoint and Williamsburg communities, adding yet another publicly accessible jewel to New York City’s waterfront.”