In the modern age, a gang of Hispanic youth wielding machetes in Williamsburg’s South Side also have their own Youtube-distributed music video (below). The so-called “Trinitarios” are being blamed for the recent machete attack on two teenagers Saturday night.
According to police reports, 15 suspected Trinitarios, with their faces covered, marched down S. 3rd Street [...]

Michel Gondry, quirky, brilliant director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, David Chapelle’s Block Party, The Science of Sleep, and most regrettably, Be Kind Rewind, has moved from his East Village home to Orient Avenue, in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Various blogs have noted that Orient Avenue and East Williamsburg in general have served as a [...]

According to a number of local Brooklyn blogs, including original source Nicole Davis at Brooklyn Based and Gowanus Lounge, Williamsburg’s ‘Gutter’ (map) will have some friendly bowling competition - to the tune of 16 lane Brooklyn Bowl. The bowling alley + rock venue will be headed up by Charley Ryan and Peter Shapiro of [...]

After first being rejected, a re-design for revamping the historic Domino Sugar factory into waterfront condos has been approved. The original design added five stories of glass condos to the top of the 1884 building. Its since been reduced to four stories and now features the Dominos Sugar sign (currently on an adjacent [...]