We know there was once a Williamsburg before the Edges and Northside Pierses moved in, but it's easy to forget about the waterfront that once was while trying to dodge all the transplants on line for ramen burgers. But photographer Roland Andrijauskas has helpfully compiled video footage of Greenpoint/Williamsburg back in the halcyon days of George Bush The First, creating an eerie snapshot of an industrial landscape doomed to one day become the site of $7K/month rents.
Back in 1992, Williamsburg was nowhere near the Starbucks index (though, to be fair, neither was the rest of New York), people were unable to Instagram massive storage building fires, and Clint Eastwood made good movies. What a world.
[h/t Free Williamsburg]
