How a Day Trip Turned into a New Home in Williamsburg
BY JENNIFER JOHNSEN
In October of 2011, my family and I set out for what was supposed to be a day trip to Williamsburg. We had recently relocated from Seattle to New York City and a friend told us that we should explore the land of hipsters and Smorgasburg. We were game for trying something new, but did not expect to be so pleasantly surprised by what we discovered.
At Smorgasburg, there was so much to eat that we had to limit ourselves to one item in order to visit almost every food stand. We walked it off with a few hours of wandering around town visiting one music store after another – my 17-year-old son is a talented guitar player – and playing in McCarren Park. Soon, we found ourselves hungry again and stopped into Rosarito’s Fish Shack on Wythe Avenue and North 7th Street for dinner. We ended up sitting at the bar, where we chatted with our server/bartender, Pablo, all about Williamsburg.