Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
Williamsburg is a neighborhood of the New York borough of Brooklyn.
History
In 1661, a Dutch settlement called Boswijck was founded in what is now part of the city, which was renamed in 1664 by the British since the ruling in Bushwick. In 1792, a neighboring estate was named in honor of the officer and engineer Jonathan Williams Williamsburgh.
In 1827, Williamsburgh was incorporated into the Town of Bushwick. This incorporation in 1840, however, reversed. In 1855 the incorporation followed by City of Brooklyn, which was located in the municipality of the City of New York in 1898.
In the second half of the 19th century, Williamsburg was inhabited mainly by Germans.
Neighboring districts
The East River separates Williamsburg from the East Village and the Lower East Side, both located in Manhattan. To the north lies the district of Green Point, which also belongs to Brooklyn. The Grand Avenue to the northeast, following, can be reached Maspeth, Williamsburg which has a small but common border with another borough of Queens. To the east lies Bushwick, Bedford -Stuyvesant in the southeast and south Clinton Hill and Vinegar Hill.
Traffic routes
Called with Interstate 278, also Brooklyn Queens Expressway, passes a New York city highways from southwest to northeast through Williamsburg. The toll-free Williamsburg Bridge connects Manhattan with Williamsburg. Major roads, the Grand Street as an extension of the bridge in west-east direction, the Union Avenue in the south-north direction and the Williamsburg Broadway, also starting on the southern edge of the district runs south-east from the bridge.
In addition, the district is crossed by three metro lines. The BMT Jamaica Line runs elevated from the Williamsburg Bridge Coming traveled down Broadway south-east to East New York and is from the lines J, M and Z, the IND Crosstown Line by line G runs under the Union Avenue in North-South direction, and the BMT Canarsie line with the line L serves the northern and eastern edges of the district. The crossing stations are corner Metropolitan Avenue, Union Avenue and Broadway Union Avenue.
Population
Some parts of Williamsburg are shaped by living there, mostly Orthodox, including Hasidic Jews.
After a 14 - year construction period, a new synagogue was opened on October 15, 2006 by Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum. The synagogue is located at Kent Avenue.
Musicians, intellectuals, artists who took advantage with its lower rents as a cheaper alternative due to rising rents in Manhattan Williamsburg: A second large group in Williamsburg, now perhaps the majority, the people of the "alternative" shock are. This migration took place mainly in the 1990s, when Williamsburg became the trend district. In 2008, the rents were due to gentrification so much increased, that many of the so-called Bohemians were forced to cheaper, more outside of Manhattan, parts of Brooklyn such as To draw Bushwick, Bedford -Stuyvesant, Fort Greene, Ridgewood, Clinton Hill and Red Hook.
Music scene
Williamsburg is distinguished by its vibrant music scene. There are many alternative rock bands, and plenty of bars and clubs.
Sons and daughters Williamsburg and well-known residents
- Mel Brooks - actor and director
- Alexa Chung - Model, presenter
- Peter Criss - member of the band Kiss
- Will Eisner - comic artist
- Zoë Kravitz - singer, actress
- Barry Manilow - Singer
- Henry Miller - Author
- Winona Ryder - Actress
- Benjamin " Bugsy" Siegel - legendary gangster of the Kosher Nostra
- Barbra Streisand - Singer, actress, director
In the culture
- The feature film Once Upon a Time in America 1984 takes place in the Jewish milieu Williamsburg.
- The novel The Chosen by Chaim Potok and the eponymous film ( the elect ) play in the Jewish milieu Williamsburg in the 1940s.
- The Most Holy Trinity Church in Williamsburg has been the setting of the movie Sleepers (1996 )
- The CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls has Williamsburg as an action scene.