Williamsburg In Brooklyn, NY Walking Tour

Original Film Date: Monday February 12, 2024

This is the Williamsburg, Brooklyn video I filmed in 2024 last year. This video took 3 tries for exporting on the video editor ClipChamp that I used and those tries didn't work, due to the size length of storage it was taking up on one laptop I have, which was a chromebook. I finally got this video to be uploaded on a HP laptop and I hope you guys enjoy watching it. I went to Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY for a walking tour video on all sides: the Jewish side, Hipsters side, Puerto Rican side, and the street art warehouses. Actually, I went to Williamsburg a few times recently. During the summer on late July, I first walked around Williamsburg to see the Jewish area and the Hipster side mostly on Bedford Avenue and then on August 1st, I filmed a short video on the Mona Lisa of Williamsburg video, which is now at +120 views at the time I'm editing this video's description.

I got started with the Jewish side on South Williamsburg north of Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) which I was impressed to see Hasidic Jews make up a religious community in this part of North Brooklyn. I saw some tourists and other locals photographing their community like it's a zoo taking pictures of animals, and the locals there aren't surprised about that. They think it's weird to have them think Williamsburg is a tourist attraction when you travel around New York. Williamsburg used to have a demographics of African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Italians, and Polish immigrants back then, when it actually used to be a rough place to visit with the poverty rate and crime rate at their peak. Gentrification first hit this area around the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and early 2010s. To where it's at today, gentrification is very big in terms of economics and urban lifestyle here. It's also happening in other communities near here like Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Clinton Hill, as far as Ridgewood in Queens, Maspeth, Long Island City, Astoria, and Forest Hills.

Then, I walked around each street with Hipster culture seen as a neighborhood with rich young urban people living close to Manhattan. When you visit Williamsburg, it feels like Manhattan due to gentrification and it's very close to Manhattan. Music venues, art studios, hip cafes, restaurants, even fashion clothing stores, and local businesses are very notable here. There's a couple of street art spots to find here easily and it's fascinating to me how cool they look. Williamsburg is one of my favorite places to visit in New York, especially as a good neighborhood to visit in Brooklyn. Greenpoint is also next to this area. As of now and in the near future, Williamsburg will continue to fully gentrify and change more as an urban neighborhood built with hips-style culture and upper class developments.

Background song: Arlow - Freefall (NoCopyrightSounds)