Williamsburg, once a Mecca for hipsters, is now a luxury hub

Williamsburg is the hipster capital of the world, the Brooklyn neighbourhood where a thousand moustaches were born. Yet the New York City district has largely thrown off its bohemian past to become a hub for gourmet restaurants and chic hotels.   Williamsburg’s economy collapsed in the 1970s with the deindustrialisation of New York. The area’s [...]