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Old 09-09-2008, 10:25 AM
 
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i keep hearing references to the "artistic community" in East Williamsburg, etc etc and all the cool coffee shops and art galleries it has, how lots of stuff is centered around the Morgan L stop, or at least between Montrose and Morgan, blah blah

but as I Google Map around, all i see are graffiti-ed up empty looking warehouses, huge stretches of nothingness, and every once in a while a business or something.

I'm seriously considering moving to the area, as a cheaper substitute to Greenpoint (is that even realistic?) but where the hell exactly are the "cool" areas of this "neighborhood" called loosely East Williamsburg? it seems to me like getting a place on the wrong street and you would be completley isolated and surrounded by nothing but blank buildings.

where does everyone live?
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Old 09-09-2008, 10:28 AM
 
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I think you should go there and have dinner at night then walk around for a bit.
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Old 09-09-2008, 10:34 AM
 
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these places are both in East Williamsburg.

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Old 09-09-2008, 10:45 AM
 
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so am i right in saying everything is basically kind of located in little pockets?

for instance, i see Brooklyn Natural (looks like a good store, fresh stuff), the Archive (for me, the perfect spot b/c movies and coffee in the same location) and places like that but they are all on the same street, with virtually nothing else around them?

i've heard good coffee on McKibben too, but can't find antyhing and Google Map doesn't even go on that street.
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Old 09-09-2008, 10:48 AM
 
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Areas change very fast and Google might be out of date. I was in this area on Sunday and it looked pretty nice-- but you need to look at it, block by block to tell if it's your speed or not.
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Old 09-09-2008, 11:04 AM
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so am i right in saying everything is basically kind of located in little pockets?
Yes you are. It's not like the North Side where every other shop/store/whatever suits your flavor.
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Old 09-09-2008, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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right on.
parts of it look pretty kick ass, parts of it just look like a wasteland. i'm just wondering how much affordable housing is in the nice pockets.

what would you say the easiest way to search the area on Craigslist would be? there's a ton of stuff thats labeled "East Williamsburg" that is all over the map, and other stuff labeled Bushwick, basically it seems like they are one in the same, so i could narrow my search by using "Morgan" as a search word perhaps?

i'm moving from out of state, so the more i can narrow by Craigslist, the better.
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Old 09-09-2008, 12:37 PM
 
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I have walked around the Morgan stop, I think its pretty much Bushwick at that point. It was kind of desolate.
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Old 09-09-2008, 01:28 PM
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Isn't East Williamsburg a term coined by the real estate industry because it is really Bushwick?
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Old 09-09-2008, 01:33 PM
 
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thats what i thought it was, anyways, which is why i keep referring to "East Williamsburg" in quotes.

i guess all these "young artist and music types" i keep hearing about living in E Wburg must all be living in McKibben Lofts?
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