Parting Shot: There’s No Such Thing As East Williamsburg
Skewville installed this striking “Bushwick” sign on Morgan Avenue that’s not only a service to the disoriented, but also a solid argument in the never ending neighborhood name debates.
Photo via Skewville
by Will Sherman on October 29, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
Damn straight. Bushwick baby!
sorta cheesy, but good intentions i guess.
But what about Montrose Ave?
That's right. And stop referring to Greenwood Heights as "South Park Slope" in your Craigslist ads. You're not fooling anyone. ["You" referring to certain Craigslist posters.]
If there's an "East Williamsburg", it's around the Lorimer stop. Montrose is Bushwick.
East of bushwick ave is bushwick, west is east williamsburg in my opinion. So Montrose is either depending on which way you walk out of the station.
This sign (actually on Bogart st.) is in "Brooklyn Community District 1" which was annexed by Wiilliamsburg in 1835 as The Third District of the Village of Williamsburg 93rd Ward). Its original eastern border was Newton creek 3 blocks to the east & is now recognized as "East Williamsburg In-Place Industrial Park". So yes this is Technically East Williamsburg.
Sorry Assoles you're just as terrible as everyone on Bedofrd Ave.