Williamsburg/Greenpoint
When you’ve got a business in Williamsburg you know your neighborhood transforms from day to day, hour to hour. You’re going to need security that protects your business within this variant environment.
Security options include:
- roll up doors
- roll up gates
- store front doors
- security gates
Let’s work together to keep you secure.
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Williamsburg is a borough in Brooklyn bordered by Flushing Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue and the East River. Contemporary Williamsburg is a magnet for young people, artists and musicians. Not mention one of the most exciting collections of restaurants and nightlife you’re liable to find in the city.
In 1638 the Dutch West Indian Company bought the land west of the East River from the Native Americans and turned it into farms. In 1855 Williamsburg achieved notable economical, cultural and industrial growth, rivaling Wall Street for leadership in business. Many Eastern European immigrants left the tenements of the Lower East Side for the homes in Williamsburg once the Williamsburg Bridge was built in 1903.
By the end of WWII, quality of life in Williamsburg plummeted with the loss of industries and the rise in street crime. By the 1970s Williamsburg was one of the most gang-wrought neighborhoods in New York City and stayed that way until the 1990s when young artists and musicians started to move into the abandoned buildings and brownstones. This move echoes the migration into SoHo and TriBeCa in the 1970s.
Today Williamsburg has a thriving music scene with rising bands living and performing in the neighborhood. Late night music venues such as the Flux Factory, Mighty Robot, free103point9 and Rubuland draw in an eclectic crowd of musicians and performance artists. Commercial venues like UnionPool, Public Assembly, Bowery Presents and Pete’s Candy Store pepper the neighborhood’s late night scene.
Summer music festivals like the pool parties, are some of the best live music shows you’ll find on this side of the Mississippi, all equipped with the Brooklyn Brewery to fuel your dancing feet.
There has been a lot of dispute amongst the Hassidic community, who has lived in Williamsburg for generations and the flux of artists and musicians over the last decade. Most recently there was a debate over the removal of bike lanes in Williamsburg. The bikers asking for safety and members of the Hassidic community claiming that the amount of young women scantly clad wheeling down the streets is against their dress code and religion. However more and more efforts are being made so these two opposite communities may live together.
