A new report shows how two Brooklyn rezonings disproportionately forced out people of color, resulting in the loss of thousands of black and Latino residents even as the overall populations in those ...

Fifteen years ago, the Bloomberg administration rezoned the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in hopes of creating less-expensive housing units for low-income residents of the city ...

Will Nunziata’s recent judgmental map of Williamsburg is the latest attempt at breaking down NYC’s neighborhoods into as many generalizations as possible while offending/making us laugh. We covered a ...

A composite image showing Frederick Joseph and a still from a video he took that he said showed a woman who told him and his fiancé to stay in their "hood." Twitter/Frederick Joseph/Insider A Black ...

A group of Williamsburg students say gentrification is a major issue in their community, and they are focusing on it for a school assignment. "It was a topic that the students came up with by ...

When Andrew Tarlow opened Diner, his first business, in South Williamsburg, the area was desolate. The growth of his mini-empire since then, culminating in the opening of the Wythe Hotel in North ...

On Thursday, neighbors will gather outside 1 Center Street in Manhattan to support the owner of an important longtime community gathering spot and bar on the south side of Williamsburg, Caribbean ...

With the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, Williamsburg, a neighborhood in north Brooklyn lying near the East River, opened up to thousands of upwardly mobile immigrants and ...

McCarren Pool, a Robert Moses pool, was abandoned for years only to re-open as a concert venue, and closed again to become a pool once more. Forgotten NY This is your first of three free stories this ...

At the end of April, Vice magazine, the Williamsburg house organ, threw a party in the neighborhood. The party was inside 80 Wythe Street, a giant old factory building, a redbrick behemoth that was ...

Lucio Zago, from ‘Williamsburg Shorts’ (2016) (all images courtesy the artist) Here’s one way to deal with a hellish subway commute: stare at your fellow passengers, draw their portraits, and turn ...