East Williamsburg

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Between Williamsburg and the Queens line, East Williamsburg spreads across north Brooklyn, with Greenpoint to the north and Bushwick to the south.

  • 1.87 square miles
  • 52,998 residents, 2020 Census
  • 377 street corners
  • 7 subway stations
  • 14 bus routes

Its eastern section is an industrial district along Newtown Creek, a hub of large-scale industry since the early 1800s. Italian immigrants arrived in the second half of the 19th century, and the southern stretch of Graham Avenue, known as the Avenue of Puerto Rico, has anchored a Latin American community since the 1950s. It is home to the landmark Williamsburg Houses, completed in 1938 as one of the country's earliest modernist public housing developments, and Cooper Park, opened in the 1890s on the site of a glue works.

Sources: East Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Williamsburg Houses (LP-2135), Designation List 348, June 24, 2003 (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Cooper Park (NYC Parks); North Brooklyn Industry & Innovation Plan: Executive Summary (NYC Department of City Planning).

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East Williamsburg borders five areas, and Graham Avenue and Humboldt Street hold more of its corners than any other street, 29 each of 378.

Street map of East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, outlined among Williamsburg, Bushwick (West), Greenpoint and South Williamsburg, with its seven subway stations and Cooper Park.GreenpointRidgewoodBushwick (West)South WilliamsburgWilliamsburg
  • East Williamsburg
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Graham Av lines L
  • Lorimer St lines L accessible
  • Grand St lines L accessible
  • Montrose Av lines L
  • Morgan Av lines L
  • Broadway lines G
  • Lorimer St lines J M

Getting around

Seven subway stations and buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of East Williamsburg.

  • 7 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 14 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B24
  • B43
  • B46
  • B48
  • B57
  • B60
  • L90
  • Q54
  • Q59
  • T403
  • T410
  • T422
  • T432
  • T433

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 3,859 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 10.2 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 31 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 77 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
55
Accessible pedestrian signals
36
Turn calming
14
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Enhanced crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 6,545 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Lorimer Street & Meeker Avenue, 3,112

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 52,998 residents in East Williamsburg, about 28,300 per square mile.

  • 24,898 homes, 2020 Census
  • 5,327 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,280 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 75% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Borinquen Plaza I, Borinquen Plaza II, Bushwick, Cooper Park and Hylan developments lie wholly or partly within East Williamsburg.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
18.8 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Cooper Park (6.5 acres), Sternberg Park (4.2 acres) and Bushwick Playground (1.4 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Williamsburg Houses; 19th Police Precinct Station House and Stable; the Williamsburg Branch, Public National Bank of New York Building; and the Colored School No. 3, later Public School 69

Streets and trees

Trees
4,430 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Graham Avenue, with 29 of the area's 378
Height above sea level
From 7 feet at Metropolitan Avenue & Vandervoort Avenue to 57 feet at Porter Avenue & Anthony Street
Honorary street names
10 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 17 schools and two libraries in East Williamsburg.

Public schools
15
Charter and private schools
2
Libraries
Bushwick Library and Leonard Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 38 bike-share stations stand in East Williamsburg. The City's public art inventory lists three works in the area: Father Giorgio Memorial (1954), Greenpoint World War II Memorial (1954) and Plaza Perch (2017).

  • 38 bike-share stations
  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 964 major felonies at places in East Williamsburg.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in East Williamsburg

  • 962 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,503 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of East Williamsburg, the NYPD recorded another 176 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 21.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in East Williamsburg.

Map of East Williamsburg: 13 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in East Williamsburg, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of East Williamsburg, most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of East Williamsburg are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for East Williamsburg and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
90th (most of the area), 94th
Major felonies recorded at places in East Williamsburg, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 416 major felonies at places in East Williamsburg, against 442 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.