Williamsburg

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Williamsburg runs along the East River south of Greenpoint, with Grand Street dividing its North Side from its South Side.

  • 1.03 square miles
  • 64,444 residents, 2020 Census
  • 281 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 20 bus routes

Named for Colonel Jonathan Williams, an engineer who surveyed the land after its purchase in 1802, it became a village in 1827 and a city in 1851 before joining Brooklyn in 1855; the Williamsburg Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge when it opened in 1903, linked it to Manhattan. The landmark sugar refinery of 1881–84, once the tallest structure on Brooklyn's waterfront, marks its riverfront, and an arts movement born in the late 1980s made it a center for indie rock by the early 2000s.

Sources: Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Williamsburg Bridge (NYC Department of Transportation); Havemeyers & Elder Filter, Pan & Finishing House (LP-2268), Designation List 396, September 25, 2007 (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

Map

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Williamsburg borders five areas, and Kent Avenue and Wythe Avenue hold more of its corners than any other street, 29 each of 281.

Street map of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, outlined among East Williamsburg, South Williamsburg, Greenpoint and the East Village, with its five subway stations and McCarren Park.GreenpointEast WilliamsburgSouth WilliamsburgBrooklyn Navy YardEast Village
  • 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

  • Bedford Av lines L accessible
  • Lorimer St / Metropolitan Av lines G L accessible
  • Marcy Av lines J M Z accessible
  • Hewes St lines J M
  • Broadway lines G

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on 20 routes stop in or at the edge of Williamsburg.

  • 5 subway stations
  • 3 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 20 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B24
  • B32
  • B39
  • B43
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B46
  • B48
  • B60
  • B62
  • B67
  • B106
  • 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.

  • 2,612 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 9.3 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 18 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 68 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
49
Accessible pedestrian signals
34
Turn calming
10
Safety Improvement Projects
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Enhanced crossings
1

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
  • 13,172 school-zone speed camera tickets at five corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Rodney Street & Ainslie Street, 7,340

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 64,444 residents in Williamsburg, about 62,600 per square mile.

  • 32,444 homes, 2020 Census
  • 13,703 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 2,809 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 74% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
70.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
McCarren Park (36.9 acres), Bushwick Inlet Park (22 acres) and North 5th Street Pier and Park (1.9 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh; the Williamsburgh Trust Company Building; the Smith, Gray & Company Building; and the Long Island Business College, among others
Historic district
Fillmore Place Historic District, wholly or partly within Williamsburg

Streets and trees

Trees
5,907 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, pin oak and Japanese zelkova
Street with the most corners
Kent Avenue, with 29 of the area's 281
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at Roebling Street & North 10th Street to 60 feet at Borinquen Place & Bike Path
Honorary street names
16 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 18 schools in Williamsburg.

Public schools
9
Charter and private schools
9

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 37 bike-share stations stand in Williamsburg. The City's public art inventory lists four works in the area, among them George Washington at Valley Forge (1906), Father Jerzy Popieluszko Monument (1990) and Bound Hands Rising Free (2000).

  • 37 bike-share stations
  • 4 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 895 major felonies at places in Williamsburg.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Williamsburg

  • 922 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,069 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Williamsburg, the NYPD recorded another 113 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 15.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Williamsburg.

Map of Williamsburg: 19 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 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 Williamsburg, most about 1,000 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 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 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 Williamsburg, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 399 major felonies at places in Williamsburg, against 408 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.