I was born in 1944 and lived at 774 Grand Street Williamsburg. As I watch this video I would never have imagined the change to my beautiful brooklyn. I will miss Grand Street as long as I live.
family is originally from Williamsburg but we reside in california. blessed to have family from BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. great video here. greetings from southern cali.☀ musician also. god bless ameriiica. xo
This is really an insult. What about the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans who were born and raised here. Los Sures/the Southside, Avenue of Puerto Rico (Graham Ave.), the Williamsburg Bridge, and Eastern District HS. This is not the true history. Must've been created by a “Hipster Artist”. You need to do this right or don't bother!
True story. A close friend of mine, a Rican who was born and raised in Williamsburg in the 70s and 80s said that hood used be all Ricans. Then in the '90s and present living out in Hells Kitchen. Across his apt. now has tall multi-condo complex that once used to be able to see the Hudson River. Can't get a break in the city.
This is really an insult. What about the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans who were born and raised here. Los Sures/the Southside, Avenue of Puerto Rico (Graham Ave.), the Williamsburg Bridge, and Eastern District HS. This is not the true history. Must've been created by a “Hipster Artist”. You need to do this right or don't bother!
I'm a New Yorican born in Manhattan and raised in Williamsburg Brooklyn, I grew up in the 70's I still love Williamsburg Brooklyn and will continue to the rest of my life.
Brilliant creation! Tell you seem to capture the rawness and beauty that is Williamsburg. You might be aware of the many cover operations for certain U.S. Govt agencies that occurred in and out the old Navy Yard, the CAN DO Yard keep doing to the very end.
Last place I lived in Williamsburgh was on South 3rd between Driggs and Bedford. I remember Tony's barbershop, Abe's fruit & vegetable store, Lieberman's Grocery/Deli and an old Bar&Grill on Bedford. They used to have some great knish's there. We used to buy our clothes at Bitinsky's Department Store on Havemeyer and got the best egg cremes at a eat and go hot dog place on the corner of Broadway and Marcy. I miss the old neighborhood. Now it's just crap.
I was born in the Williamsburg General Hospital 1951.,but was raised on Long Island. Levittown and then Brentwood ,I loved those years. I moved to Central Florida in 1984 and would not have changed it for the world. My wife and I Loved it here. Her parents were from Flushing Queens.and when she was little they moved to North Babylon. not to far from Brentwood.
my grandparents and their family came from puerto rico and moved around bk until buying a three story family building in 1970. most of williamsburg was black and brown and of course the hasidics as well. we lived in east williamsburg and was not drug infested at all but we did live three blocks away from the marcy projects which was always rough. williamsburg has always been black and brown since way before the seventies.
+Carmen Gomez I've been here since the 60's as well (I am not of Spanish decent) and thought waaaaaaaait what about the Spanish population, who did they talk to and they missed that entire race who have been here since......the 60's as well????
Growing up in Williamsburg as a kid it was all Italian and Jewish .. It wasn't til the mid to late 80s that it became predominantly Hispanic and black .. Like they say with fashion it always comes back .. I like that the neighborhood is now mixed again ... Growing up Hispanic and being on of the few in the neighborhood had its challenges but what areas don't have challenges.
Finally! after watching this video! all the way to the end, you showed what I recalled and remember best from being born and raised in Willamsburg! since the 60" my Jewish friends! Great video, recall when I first rented to those early "Water People".
I loved Williamsburg back in the day-and I still love aspects of it now but a lot of the creative edge has moved east to Bushwick. Williamsburg has become as standard as the East Village and that is not a bad thing. I had some good times in that neighborhood.
Never really show the South side. That's where true Williamsburg is. North side is a bunch of hipster, non New Yorkers. I grew up in the South side in the 60's and 70's. It was rough but you had a sense of family with the neighborhood. I doubt that's how it is now
Okay seriously whats with all these fake Brooklyn camera shots. First you show multiple Red Hook Brooklyn landmarks (I been there countless times) then you go off showing Queens. 5 Pointz to be exact, Born and raised in Queens, trust me I would know. Just show the true Williamsburg. Not exactly sure why you choose lie about Brooklyn's scenery, but this does not make you a creditable source, being that this is a "short documentary" or whatever the hell you made here.
So true, this was the error of the Tennis Ball boys, they ran around the burg with green tennis balls these balls were thrown if approached by the cops... of course its also where the drugs were stashed. Grew up on Maujer most of my life - it wasn't pretty in the 80's
Pissed I never got a chance to visit this Neighbourhood while in NYC we oppted for dumbo & Bronx (zoo) and mostly manhattan.. That's the problem with NYC.. I've been a few times now & you never get a chance to visit everywhere to much to see...
Indeed you forgot to mention all the Hispanics that made up williamsburg. My dad came from Dominican republic in the 60's and I was born in 78. Growing up in williamsburg was no icing on the cake like it is now! My parents have stories and I have memories of the 80's when there were gang shooting right in front of the building. So if you want to document you should speak to the real residents of the neighborhood. Some are still there. My parents have 40 years living in the same apt.
You forgot to mention the Hispanic population in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's. My grandparents came to So. 4th street and Roebling St. from Puerto Rico in 1947.
Respectfully, young lady, you need to do a re-take. Your demographics are blatantly wrong. Williamsburg was home to many, many Latinos, particularly Puerto Ricans, then Dominicans, and home to many Latinos from Mexico, Central and South America. Oh, and most of your footage is from Greenpoint, which still has the largest concentration of Polish people in the country. Do-over; do justice.
I'm kinda offended. I can tell you very well that Polish and AfroAmericans werent the only ones living in williamsburg. All of the whole south side and some of the Northside was ran by spanish people.
If this short is about Williamsburgh why did you show pictures of Sunnyside Queens as well as Red hook? You should re title this documentary as " T he hipster invasion of Williamsburgh post 9/11"
