Welcome to San Williamsisco

We could quibble, if you wanted, about when the sociocultural phenomenon known as “Williamsburg” “began” and when it “ended”; neighborhoods do have a tendency to “end” right around the time you can longer afford to live there, or perhaps a touch before then. (The average rent for a studio in Crown Heights today, by the way, is $1760, up from under $1500 a month ago, according to one firm. We still have Quooklyn, right?)

Let’s focus, instead, on this:

He noted a firm analysis finding that Williamsburg residents are now on average 25 to 35 years old with per capita income of $108,000 a year.

Whether the Williamsburg you know ended with Diner in 1998–1999 or Marlow & Sons in 2004 or the Wythe Hotel in 2012 (or whichever milestone you prefer!), the average human living in Williamsburg is now, officially, a rich person — and a young one, at that.

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