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Is the area I'm gonna be in relatively safe for college students?
walked around grand and there are a few bars with some movement on corner of grand/union so I figured it's fine. Short 10-15 min walk to downtown Williamsburg just not sure how it'd be at night
I already said it was fine! I live on the other end of Union. Union is pretty busy at all hours. Our cross street is sometimes completely dead but there are always people coming and going on union.
You can also take the bus to get to other parts of Williamsburg. I do that when I go up to greenpoint.
Is the area I'm gonna be in relatively safe for college students?
walked around grand and there are a few bars with some movement on corner of grand/union so I figured it's fine. Short 10-15 min walk to downtown Williamsburg just not sure how it'd be at night
You should be fine. Williamsburg is on a phase 3 of gentrification, which is a mop-up phase. There is no such thing as downtown Williamsburg. Do you mean Broadway by the south side or along Bedford Ave on the north side.
You should be fine. Williamsburg is on a phase 3 of gentrification, which is a mop-up phase. There is no such thing as downtown Williamsburg. Do you mean Broadway by the south side or along Bedford Ave on the north side.
The Bedford stop (along with lorimer) is usually what they consider as "downtown" or main Williamsburg, the closer to the water the "safer" and more expensive it is... The further east the more towards E.williamsburg and bushwick.
I meant along Bedford ave if anything
I already said it was fine! I live on the other end of Union. Union is pretty busy at all hours. Our cross street is sometimes completely dead but there are always people coming and going on union.
You can also take the bus to get to other parts of Williamsburg. I do that when I go up to greenpoint.
When Williamsburg was an independent city from NYC, and Brooklyn before that, my guess is that the area between Broadway and Metro west of the BQE was likely considered downtown. I think that is where the Dutch West Indian Company setup shop to move goods to and from Bushwick and Jamaica, which ultimately branched out to Long Island.
In my head, East Williamsburg starts at the Morgan Ave stop.
I'd consider Graham as the main strip in East Williamsburg. The Morgan ave area is more of a nowhere man's land stuck in between East Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Bushwick. An industrial desert, especially on a day like today. Its part of and covered by the Williamsburg and Greenpoint community board and police precincts, but the Bushwick school district. Post office would be mostly the Wyckoff Heights PO, but also the Broadway Triangle PO.
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I live on the other end of Union. Union is pretty busy at all hours. Our cross street is sometimes completely dead but there are always people coming and going on union.
