Southside Willamsburg vs South Williamsburg

[Henna]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

Once upon a time, there were two neighborhoods called Greenpoint and Williamsburg. This "northside" and "southside" business is just a lot of nonsense perpetrated by the real estate industry.

1997 NY Times

Southside, a Latino and Hasidic section of Williamsburg, sits on one edge of Brooklyn, a neighborhood staring out at the lights of Manhattan. It is a neighborhood of dying industry and full-blown poverty, a neighborhood of churches and shuls, of immigrants and their children.

It is also a welfare neighborhood, and so it now feels a deep unease about the new welfare legislation and what it and similar local changes have done, and will mean.

1998 NY Times

Northside in Williamsburg is a neighborhood that ranges from the warehouses and gutted buildings on the waterfront to weedy McCarren Park in the north and the oil-drum wasteland under the elevated Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the east. In the middle, narrow streets are lined with meat-packing plants, textile factories and metal-parts plants. Foot traffic is sparse. The main drag, Bedford Avenue, is a good example: except for 8:30 A.M. and 5:30 P.M. on weekdays, the heaviest sidewalk traffic consists of a few elderly women inching along on canes and occasional bleary-eyed artists going out for coffee

[Fred314X]

Oh, I never go by what the Times says as regards any neighborhood off the island of Manhattan. They neither know nor care. The Times has higher journalistic standards than any other paper in this part of the country--but a "Manhattancentric" mindset so thick, you could cut it with a knife. The moment you want to talk about four of the city's boroughs, you have to stop using the Times as a reference source!

[009]

Can't forget that it's spelled Williamsburgh not Williamsburg. The real estate industry removed the h because apparently it wasn't hip enough.

[Qube]

What's the area of South 9th Street between Bedford and Driggs like?

[Henna]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

Oh, I never go by what the Times says as regards any neighborhood off the island of Manhattan. They neither know nor care. The Times has higher journalistic standards than any other paper in this part of the country--but a "Manhattancentric" mindset so thick, you could cut it with a knife. The moment you want to talk about four of the city's boroughs, you have to stop using the Times as a reference source!

I'm giving you evidence the terms have been around since at least the 1990's. If you can't believe it, that's your problem.

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by Qube

What's the area of South 9th Street between Bedford and Driggs like?

It's a Jewish neighborhood.