Broadway (continued)
As Bedford reaches Broadway, the footprints of the former business thoroughfare are apparent in the grand buildings at the intersection. On one corner is the former Kings County Savings Bank built in the French Second Empire style, now home to the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. It’s both a national and city landmark.
Across the way is the 1884 Smith, Gray & Co. building, a blue cast iron building of the likes seen in Soho. Just down the street is the domed Williamsburgh Savings Bank that’s currently being meticulously restored. For food nearby here, there’s Motorino Brooklyn by Mathieu Palombino’s for brick oven pizzas and Marlowe and Daughters for an old fashioned butcher and grocery store.
Motorino Pizza
Williamsburgh Savings Bank
Here is where our guide ends, but Bedford Avenue continues south cutting through Bed-Stuy, Prospect Lefferts Garden, and finally to Sheepshead Bay. The best thing about Bedford Avenue–the density of fantastic places to take in–may also be a detractor for some due to the crowds. But the good thing is that each portion of the street has a different character. Bedford has a lot to offer beginning from the tree lined portions along the park in both Greenpoint and Williamsburg, to the bustle of North 7th and vicinity, down to the more up and coming section south of Grand Street. Hopefully this overview of Bedford Avenue has helped you see what it would be like to live, or at least hang out, eat and shop here. For a street so well-known and visited, it’s still surprising to find vacant lots, but this means change is still happening and more exciting things are on the way.
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