Williamsburg Nightlife
by Sarah Sundberg
Once Upon a Time, a night out in Williamsburg meant you had a miserably small amount of choices in the bar department. Then there was Galapagos, the Diner and a handful of other places. Now we're so gentrified that we have enough "real" bars to not only serve the community but a good portion of the rest of the City. These days Manhattanites and other unfortunates have good reason take the L train out east to party with Williamsburgs finest. Despite this, Williamsburg nights are still - at least in my experience - slightly less expensive and a lot more prone to get all strange and out of control in a good way. They will leave you in weird places with unexpected people. Pleasantly dazed, confused and with your mouth coated with grease from those late night fries at Kellogg's Diner you whish you never ate. One of the perks of doing your Friday and Saturday barhopping in Williamsburg is that you run a lower risk of being accosted by the Jersey guys and under-aged NYU types that roam the streets of Manhattan on Weekends. Also, the way home is shorter and less painful. If you are anywhere close to being as lazy and snobbish as the author of this article those are the only reasons you need for all but abandoning Manhattan establishments forever. In short, for those of us who prefer to drink, dance and get wasted in our own neighborhood there are plenty of options. So many, in fact that this is in no way intended to be a complete guide. Just a few helpful directions to navigate by.
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About Williamsburg
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in northern Brooklyn, New York City, bordering Greenpoint, Bed-Stuy, and Bushwick. It is connected to the East Village and Lower East Side in Manhattan by the Williamsburg Bridge, over the East River, as well as the L, (BMT Canarsie Line), and J/M/Z, (BMT Jamaica Line), subway routes. Williamsburg is home to many ethnic groups, a thriving art community, and, increasingly, commuters to Manhattan.
"South Williamsburg" refers to the area, today occupied mainly by the Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hassidim, originally called Williamsburg. North of traditional Williamsburg is an area known as the "South Side," occupied by Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. To the north of that is an area known as the "North Side," traditionally Polish and Italian, but now host to an increasing numbers of hipsters: artists and those who wish to associate with artists. East Williamsburg is home to many industrial spaces and forms the largely black and Hispanic area between Williamsburg and Bushwick. Williamsburg, South Side, North Side, Greenpoint and East Williamsburg all form Brooklyn Community Board 1. The "hipster" center of Williamsburg radiates from the strip of Bedford Avenue near the Bedford Avenue Station on the L train, the first stop from Manhattan. The neighborhood's art scene inspired the book The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham, which initially appeared on Williamsburg's culture website, FreeWilliamsburg.com.
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