A World Apart

Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
If you have never been there, take the M train to Marcy, get off, descend the stairs and walk straight down Broadway. There is an old famous steak house, newly minted upscale restaurants, gourmet food shops, wine bars and pubic housing. What makes it unique is the abundance of long-term residents who are Hasidic Jews. This ultra-conservative group has extremely strict dress codes for men, women and children. They all wear black. The men on Friday night wear wide-tall-fur-hats, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtreimel] the women, long skirts, blouse sleeves that cover the elbows and dark wigs to cover their hair. The young boys have their heads shaved with only the side curls besides their ears showing under rather large yarmulkes. They are the residents of the public housing units.

The link below is a good explanation.

http://www.pbs.org/alifeapart/intro_2.html