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Williamsburg Rentals, Fed by the ultra-convenient L train into Union Square, Williamsburg—located near Greenpoint, Bushwick, and Bedford-Stuyvesant—is one of the hottest neighborhoods in Brooklyn, brimming with artists, galleries, cafes, fashion boutiques, restaurants and nightlife. Its multi-generational Polish, Italian, German, Puerto Rican, Dominican and Hasidic residents live side-by-side young trendsetters, hipsters and professionals attracted to the area’s vibrancy. It is also known as a thriving hub of indie rock. The North Side is populated by many Polish and Italian residents, East Williamsburg by Italian, African American, and Hispanic residents, South Williamsburg by Hasidic residents, and the South Side by Dominican and Puerto Rican residents. Some people refer to the area as “Hipsterville” due to its large aforementioned population of hipsters and artists, which are mixed among the immigrant groups, particularly around Bedford Avenue.
Bedford Avenue is, in fact, 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. The area also has a large number of clubs that led to it being such a center for indie music, such as The Bog, Rubulad, The Lizard’s Tail, Keep Refrigerated, Mighty Robot, Trash, Flux Factory, Quiet Life, Keep Refrigerated, Todd P., Twisted Ones, and Dot Dash. Commercial venues include Pete’s Candy Store, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Union Pool, and Galapagos, and a number of theaters, such as The Brick Theater.
The area was first purchased from the Native Americans by the Dutch West India Company in the mid-seventeenth century, at which time it was called Boswijck and later anglicized by the British to Bushwick, when they took over. At the start of the nineteenth century, 13 acres of Bushwick were bought by Richard M. Woodhull, who hired Col. Jonathan Williams to survey his newly purchased property. He named this portion Williamsburgh in Williams’ honor. The area rapidly expanded and soon became its own entity, separate from today’s Bushwick, in 1827. Soon afterwards, industrialists built up shipyards as well as sugar processing refineries and breweries.
The area achieved further fame when famous New York millionaires such as Cornelius Vanderbilt built mansions there, and Charles Pratt founded the Pratt Institute. The still-famous Pfizer Pharmaceutical company was founded in Williamsburg by Charles Pfizer, and continued to maintain a plant there until 2007. In fact, so influential was Williamsburg that at one point, it had a financial hub that was a significant rival to Manhattan’s Wall Street and possessed a full 10% of the country’s wealth.
