Williamsburg
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, as little as one subway stop away from Manhattan, and is bordered to the north by Greenpoint, to the east by Bushwick and to the south by Bedford-Stuyvesant.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter with 33,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, USA
- Also known as: “Williamsburg, Brooklyn”, “Williamsburg, New York City”, and “Williamsburgh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marsha P. Johnson State Park and Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord.
Marsha P. Johnson State Park
Park
Photo: MMZach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marsha P. Johnson State Park is an 11-acre state park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The park stretches along the East River near North 7th, 8th, and 9th Streets, with views of the Williamsburg Bridge and Midtown Manhattan.
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord
Church
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is a historic Russian Orthodox cathedral at 228 North 12th Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
Knitting Factory
Photo: honeymoon music, CC BY 2.0.
The Knitting Factory is a nightclub in New York City that features eclectic music and entertainment and is co-owned and co-operated by Knitting Factory Entertainment.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenpoint and Alphabet City.
Greenpoint
Neighborhood
Photo: Jleon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west by the East River.
Alphabet City
Neighborhood
Photo: Rtd2101, Public domain.
Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names. Alphabet City is situated 1½ miles northwest of Williamsburg.
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a shipyard and industrial complex in northwest Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlears Hook in Manhattan. Brooklyn Navy Yard is situated 1½ miles southwest of Williamsburg.
Williamsburg
- Categories: neighborhood, unincorporated community in the United States, gay village, and locality
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.71462° or 40° 42′ 53″ northLongitude
-73.95345° or 73° 57′ 12″ westPopulation
33,000Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WGYOpen location code
87G8P27W+RJOpenStreetMap ID
node 158863515OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yiddish—“Williamsburg” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ուիլյամսբուրգ”
- Basque: “Williamsburg”
- Catalan: “Williamsburg”
- Chinese: “威廉斯堡”
- Czech: “Williamsburg”
- Danish: “Williamsburg”
- Dutch: “Williamsburg”
- Estonian: “Williamsburg”
- Finnish: “Williamsburg”
- French: “Williamsburg”
- German: “Williamsburg”
- Hebrew: “ויליאמסבורג”
- Hungarian: “Williamsburg”
- Indonesian: “Williamsburg, Brooklyn”
- Indonesian: “Williamsburg”
- Italian: “Williamsburg”
- Japanese: “ウィリアムズバーグ (ブルックリン)”
- Japanese: “ウィリアムズバーグ (ブルックリン区)”
- Japanese: “ウィリアムズバーグ”
- Japanese: “ブルックリン ノースウィリアムスバーグ”
- Korean: “윌리엄스버그”
- Ladin: “Williamsburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Williamsburg”
- Norwegian: “Williamsburg”
- Persian: “ویلیامزبرگ، بروکلین”
- Persian: “ویلیامزبرگ”
- Polish: “Williamsburg”
- Portuguese: “Williamsburg”
- Russian: “Вильямсбург (Нью-Йорк)”
- Russian: “Уильямсберг (Бруклин)”
- Russian: “Уильямсберг”
- Slovak: “Williamsburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویلیامزبرق، بروکلین”
- Spanish: “Williamsburg (Brooklyn)”
- Spanish: “Williamsburg”
- Swedish: “Williamsburg, Brooklyn”
- Swedish: “Williamsburg”
- Turkish: “Williamsburg, Brooklyn”
- Turkish: “Williamsburg”
- Urdu: “ویلمزبرگ، بروکلین”
- Yiddish: “וויליאמסבורג, ברוקלין”
- “Williamsburg”
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