Williamsburg

The continued pandemic lockdown has been devastating to businesses everywhere. In North Brooklyn many long-running establishing have shut their doors for good, including much-loved restaurant/bar Snacky (which opened in 2002) and long-running cafe/bar/events space Kinfolk.  They are far from the only ones, though...

First Enid's, then Rosemary's Greenpoint Tavern, now comes news that Williamsburg is losing another drinking institution: The Abbey.

This is a really sad one: Rosemary's Greenpoint Tavern, which has been serving up affordable drinks on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg since the '50s, will close at the end February...

Videology has been on the corner of Bedford and S. 1st since December 2003, first as a video store, then as a bar and cinema. End of an era.

The much-dreaded fifteen month L train shutdown is still eight months away, but the exodus has already begun.

”thom the greatest ever dropped by the show.”

Much of the Williamsburg that existed in the neighborhood's early '00s heyday is gone now -- from Glasslands to Daddy's to Tops to that empty lot on the corner of Bedford & N. 1st -- but one thing we're glad is still around is Union Pool which opened in 2000 and quickly became known for live music, its backyard, and general debauchery.

End of an era: the empty lot on the corner of Bedford and North 1st in Williamsburg, which has never had anything in it apart from junker cars, wild mint and, for the last seven or eight years, a popular ever-changing diorama of stuffed animals, is finally up for sale.

The Brooklyn Flea Record Fair happens May 20 right next to Smorgasburg.

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