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	Williamsburg Brooklyn History
		The physical differences between the Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridges - one noble, one barely functional - embody the socio-economic differences between the respective neighborhoods they connect, at least at the time when the bridges were built.
		Williamsburg (spelled "Williamsburgh" at the time) became an independent city at just the moment when the New York area was set to become the most important port and financial center in the Western Hemisphere, just after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.
		Williamsburg was also a notable vacation spot for the super-rich, with resorts catering to the likes of Commodore Vanderbilt and James Fisk.
	www.11211magazine.com /history/history5.html (1922 words)

	Williamsburg, Brooklyn
		Williamsburg in the middle nineteenth century was a popular resort; its hotels near the Brooklyn Ferry attracted a wealthy, cosmopolitan crowd, including such gourmets and sportsmen as Commodore Vanderbilt, Jim Fisk, and William C. Whitney.
		With the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903 and the resultant influx of immigrant families from overcrowded Manhattan, the district's affluence vanished.
		Williamsburg Houses are under the management of the New York City Housing Authority.
	www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/williamsburg.html (992 words)

	WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
		Williamsburg Brooklyn was named after Colonel Jonathan Williams a U.S. engineer and a a grand nephew to Ben Franklin.
		Since the wires in the main cables in the Williamsburg Bridge are not galvanized the bridge engineers have had a problem in terms of protecting them from corrosion.
		Built to alleviate traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and to provide a link between Manhattan and the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the 1,600 foot Williamsburg Bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge until the 1920s.
	bridgepros.com /projects/Williamsburg_Bridge (1306 words)

	Williamsburg Brooklyn Dental Service in Williamsburg Brooklyn for Cosmetic Dentistry
		This Williamsburg Brooklyn Dental Service is a dental leader in providing individuals, families and groups with affordable and comprehensive discount dental service since 2003.
		The Williamsburg Brooklyn Dental Service in Brooklyn for Cosmetic Dentistry feel it is important that you and your Brooklyn Dental Service in Brooklyn for Cosmetic Dentistry communicate well and that your procedure is not rushed.
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	www.brooklyndentalservice.com (458 words)

	BILLBURG.COM williamsburg, brooklyn [Community Affairs]
		Williamsburg Residents gather in the early morning on rooftops to watch a williamsburg landmark be blown to pieces.
		Unfortunately, Brooklyn has been burdened by the highest concentration of these waste transfer facilities and is currently processing almost half of the 13,000 tons of garbage generated by the five boroughs.
		The Williamsburg Waterfront 197a Plan and the neighborhood organization--NAG, are a few of the invaluable resources available to residents who are concerned about these issues.
	www.billburg.com /community (789 words)

	Cono and Sons Italian Restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn Cono & Sons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cono and sons italian restaurants in williamsburg brooklyn 11211 is ready when you are.
		Cono and sons italian restaurants in williamsburg brooklyn 11211 has a pick up window too.Cono and sons italian restaurants in williamsburg brooklyn 11211 takes all types of major charge cards.
		Come on down to brooklyns cono and sons italian restaurants in williamsburg brooklyn 11211 for a dinner you will remember for years to come.
	www.conoandsons.com (580 words)

	NYC Marathon: Encountering New York
		Williamsburg was founded in about 18l0, and named after Colonel Williams, the engineer who surveyed the town.
		The southern part of Williamsburg is home to artists and art galleries, and to the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (718-486-7372), a Victorian landmark that provides space for cultural events, performances, and art exhibitions.
		Still, the atmosphere is redolent of an old Brooklyn neighborhood, on both sides of the Williamsburg Bridge.
	www.nyrrc.org /nyrrc/mar01/about/williamsburg.html (672 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Williamsburg, Brooklyn-History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The large corner store at this commercial intersection was built in 1888, when Williamsburg was a small village on the edge of the town of Bushwick.
		Although Williamsburg became Brooklyn's most congested residential neighborhood after the 1903 opening of the Williamsburg Bridge, this northern corner of the neighborhood remained stable.
		Opened in 1903, the Williamsburg Bridge, which connects Manhattan's Lower East Side to Brooklyn, was the second bridge to span the East River.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /WBG/wbg-history-photos.htm (409 words)

	New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was founded in 1810 and named after Colonel Williams, the engineer who first surveyed the area.
		At the time, Williamsburg had only a handful of bars and restaurants in the area, and absolutely no one delivered.
		Williamsburg was being hailed in Time as the hippest place in America.
	www.nypress.com /19/3/brooklyn/brooklyn11.cfm (810 words)

	Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In October 1996, recognizing a lack of exhibit or performing space locally in Williamsburg Brooklyn, one of the largest art communities in New York, Yuko Nii founded the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (WAH Center), based upon her "Bridge Concept".
		Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden names a task force to address artists' space needs in Brooklyn as a result of a housing and space needs survey distributed to more than 3,000 local artists.
		If Brooklyn wishes to retain the vibrancy of its art community then their concerns need to be carefully considered and addressed," said Borough President Howard Golden.
	wahcenter.net /center.html (984 words)

	East Williamsburg, Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is bounded by the neighborhoods of Williamsburg to the west, Greenpoint to the north, Bushwick to the south and southeast, and Maspeth and Ridgewood, Queens to the east.
		East Williamsburg is served by Brooklyn Community Board 1, whereas Bushwick is served by Brooklyn Community Board 4, the boundary being at Flushing Avenue.
		East Williamsburg is still an emerging term, and residents who are reluctant to use that term remain to identify themselves with Bushwick or Williamsburg, although this is both politically correct and incorrect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Williamsburg,_Brooklyn (771 words)

	Williamsburg, Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Bed-Stuy, and Bushwick.
		"South Williamsburg" refers to the area which today is occupied mainly by the Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hasidim, which comprised the whole of Williamsburg originally.
		North of traditional Williamsburg is an area known as the "South Side," occupied by Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Williamsburg,_Brooklyn (3338 words)

	Williamsburg is Brooklyn's newest trendy spot
		When Chino Palacios told people he was opening a restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn nearly a decade ago, they just shook their heads or laughed at him.
		But that was eight years ago -- practically a millennium in the life of this evolving New York neighborhood -- and now Veracruz, Palacios's Bedford Avenue bar and restaurant serving authentic Mexican cuisine, sits in the heart of what is one of the hippest places in the five boroughs.
		As rents rose in the increasingly fashionable neighborhoods of the East Village and Lower East side, the artists who had paved the way for investment bankers hopped on the subway and resettled in Williamsburg, a working-class neighborhood in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge, for years blighted by industrial pollution.
	cityguide.pojonews.com /fe/DayTrips/stories/dt_williamsburg.asp (982 words)

	Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival on Film Festivals . com
		The 4TH annual Williamsburg, Brooklyn Film Festival will run May 1st through the May 6th, and will be held at the historical 1920's Commodore Theater.
		The WBFF is the first international competitive film festival in Brooklyn and is staged at the historic Commodore Theater, a one-thousand seat theater from the mid-1920s which is located at 329 Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
		And it is also an opportunity for the international film makers who show their work at the Festival to meet the media, film producers, film distributors, and the five boroughs' film enthusiasts.
	www.filmfestivals.com /wbff/2001/index.shtml (512 words)

	Williamsburg Brooklyn Restaurant Guide: Chickenbone Cafe
		Brooklyn, it seems, has a terroir, and its biggest culinary boosters are making the most of it.
		He forages the Brooklyn wilds for exceptional ingredients the way Euell Gibbons once scoured the forest looking for hickory nuts.
		The faint sourness of a pumpernickel baguette combined with slightly shredded slow-cooked salmon, watercress, and wasabi aioli is a delicious contrast of flavors.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /restaurants/archives/2005/03/chickenbone_caf.html (771 words)

	Williamsburg Brooklyn Nail Salon and Beauty Spas in Williamsburg 11211
		The Williamsburg nail and beauty spa in Williamsburg Brooklyn allows you to retreat into our world of luxury and solitude for an hour or a day.
		HL Pro Nails is located in Williamsburg Brooklyn Nail Salons and Beauty Spa in Williamsburg 11211 is an affordable nail salon and Day spas in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
		Our Williamsburg Brooklyn Day Spas in Williamsburg Brooklyn 11211 is waiting to relax you with our many years of training in the spas business.
	www.hlpronails.com (744 words)

	Brooklyn Industries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brooklyn Industries has been selected by the Village Voice editors as one of the best shopping destinations in New York in their annual Best of Issue.
		Brooklyn Industries is opening a new store in Chelsea (on the corner of 18th and 8th) in mid-August.
		Earlier this month, Brooklyn Industries sponsored Taste of the Nation Brooklyn, the nation’s preeminent culinary benefit supporting the fight to end hunger and poverty.
	www.brooklynindustries.com /news.aspx (1295 words)

	Fiboro Bridges - Williamsburg Bridge
		The Brooklyn entrance to the south path will be on Bedford Avenue between South 5th and South 6th Streets.
		I happened to be riding across the Williamsburg Bridge bikepath this night and noticed that at the midpoint of the bridge, the temporary fence separating the interim bike path from the brand new one under construction was open for once.
		The Brooklyn entrance to the temporary southern Williamsburg path is a steep ramp with a narrow passage.
	www.transalt.org /bridges/williamsburg.html (1545 words)

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	www.williamsburg11211.com /ExodusFitness.htm (1023 words)

	Case of Chaim Ciment (Williamsburg/Brooklyn, NY)
		NEW YORK: Police officials and Hasidic leaders met Wednesday to ease tensions in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn after hundreds of Hasidic Jews stormed a police station to protest the arrest of one of their colleagues on sexual assault charges.
		A melee erupted in Brooklyn's 90th Police Precinct Tuesday night when hundreds of Hasidic Jews surrounded the station house to protest the arrest of a Jewish man who, they said, had been falsely accused of fondling a teen-age girl.
		The incident was the latest in a long period of tensions between the Hasidic population and other residents in the area, which is in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge.
	www.theawarenesscenter.org /ciment.html (1360 words)

	Williamsburg Brooklyn Restaurant Guide: * Oznot's Dish
		Dinner is more expensive than what you would generally expect in Brooklyn, but well worth the price.
		There you can sit with a newspaper in the greenhouse-like, mosaic-covered back room or outside on a desolate yet somehow charming strip of industrial warehouses and never be disturbed-even by the restaurant's notoriously slow waitstaff.
		Posted by: jeffrey at October 3, 2005 07:12 AM i lived in williamsburg several years (1994)ago for nearly one year.
	freewilliamsburg.com /restaurants/archives/2005/03/_oznots_dish.html (982 words)

	Brooklyn - Mt. Carmel
		During the late 1800's, many immigrants from Italy and especially Nola settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
		The San Paolo society of Brooklyn held their feast around the June 22 Saint day of San Paolino down the block from today's location of Our Lady of Mt, Carmel church on the corner of Metropolitan and Havemeyer.
		La Questa is the handing out of bread throughout the street of Brooklyn in symbolic remembrance of San Paolino giving away all his earthly possession for a life of celibacy.
	www.giglio-usa.org /Brooklyn_Mt_Carmel.htm (942 words)

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	New York Metro: Cheap Eats
		A sidewalk table on the preternaturally quiet block is an unpretentious oasis in the midst of hipsterville.
		Judging by the ancient tiled floor and the weathered tin ceiling and walls, you'd never guess DuMont is a relative newcomer to the Williamsburg scene.
		Red Hook is a culinary backwater ripe for gentrification -- especially with the prospect of a Fairway satellite on the waterfront, a French brasserie under construction nearby, and the recent opening of this friendly diner, a beacon in the Brooklyn wilderness.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /restaurants/articles/cheap_eats/02/brooklyn.htm (847 words)

	BILLBURG.COM williamsburg, brooklyn [local color]
		Film crews have been showing up in Williamsburg a lot recently, using local streets as their stage set, but moviemakers have been coming to this neighborhood for inspiration long before it became trendy.
		Local color: The day Serpico leaves his family in Brooklyn to move into Manhattan, he drives across the Williamsburg Bridge in an old beat-up car singing along, loudly and off-key, to Italian songs on the radio.
		Local color: The bar where the Brooklyn mobsters hang out is located in Greenpoint and a few scenes were filmed on the Greenpoint piers.
	www.billburg.com /arts/article.cfm?id=121 (1328 words)

	(History 101) w b u r g
		Unfortunately the Historical Society's library and museum are closed during the renovation of the historic Brooklyn Heights building (scheduled to reopen in the spring), but their fascinating searchable digital archive of photographs, drawings, and illustrations of Brooklyn's people an places is available during the renovation (at a separate location).
		Although the Williamsburg Neighborhood History Guide (part of a series focusing on Brooklyn's waterfront neighborhoods) starts out sounding more like a guide for tourists than a handbook for locals, referring to the Northside as one of Williamsburg's "ethnic villages" and warning visitors not to be fooled by the "small-town feeling" there.
		To see a piece of Williamsburg's art history in person, go to the Brooklyn Museum of Art to where Ilya Bolotowsky's 1936 WPA Williamsburg Mural, formerly located in the Williamsburg Houses (at 179 Maujer between Leonard Street and Bushwick Avenue), is on view.
	www.wburg.com /0301/articles/history.html (864 words)

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