About this Recovery House
Williamsburg House is a sober living home at 107 North 3rd Street in Brooklyn, New York, in Kings County. Rebound From Addiction, Inc. operates it with separate male and female housing, staffed around the clock by people in recovery, and it runs random monitored drug testing and alcohol breathalyzing for everyone living there.
A Brooklyn Sober House Serving Men and Women
North 3rd Street sits in the heart of Williamsburg, a block from Bedford Avenue and a short walk from the L train at Bedford, which puts Manhattan a single stop away. Housing men and women in separate quarters under one roof lets the house take applicants that strictly single-gender operators turn away, while still keeping sleeping arrangements and daily life divided. For a couple in recovery, or for a woman in a market where women's beds are scarce, that structure widens the options considerably.
Testing and Accountability in This Recovery Residence
The house runs random, monitored drug testing along with alcohol breathalyzing. Random is the operative word. Scheduled testing measures whether a resident can time their use, and unannounced testing measures whether they are using. Monitored collection closes the other loophole. For a resident on probation, in a custody dispute or trying to prove sustained sobriety to an employer, a house with documented random testing produces a record that carries weight outside the building.
Around-the-Clock Peer Staffing in a Williamsburg Sober Living Home
Staff are present at all hours, and the operator staffs the house with people who are themselves in recovery. That combination matters at two in the morning. Someone awake in the building means an overdose gets a response and a resident about to walk out has somebody to talk to first. Staff drawn from recovery means the conversation comes from experience instead of a policy manual, which is the reason peer staffing became the standard in recovery housing.
Recovery Housing in Williamsburg and Kings County
Kings County is the most populous county in New York State, and Williamsburg is one of its best-connected neighborhoods. The L, G, J, M and Z lines all reach the area, the Williamsburg Bridge carries buses into the Lower East Side, and Brooklyn's outpatient providers, hospitals and court facilities are reachable without a car. Meetings run throughout North Brooklyn at nearly every hour. Brooklyn recovery housing is spread thin across a borough of two and a half million people, so a bed in a transit hub like this one serves residents from well beyond the immediate neighborhood.
Voluntary Certification for New York Sober Living Homes
New York does not require recovery residences to be certified. Two voluntary programs exist, one through the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and one under the Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and a guide to New York sober house certification explains what each program asks of a house. With no mandate in place, the documented testing protocol and the around-the-clock staffing are the concrete commitments a prospective resident can hold this house to.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Brooklyn Sober House
Applications go to Rebound From Addiction. Ask what the weekly fee covers, how many residents share a bedroom, how the male and female quarters are separated, what the curfew is, how often testing happens in practice, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and what happens to a bed and a deposit after a positive test. A house that tests residents should be equally precise about its own rules.
Sober living homes are group residences for people who are recovering from addiction. In most instances, people who live in sober homes have to follow certain house rules and contribute to the home by doing chores. Most importantly, residents must stay sober throughout their stay in the home.
Williamsburg House promotes community and wellness yet retains a distinctive cool. The rooms are sophisticated, comfortable and truly rooted in the surrounding neighborhood. Our world class chef prepared dinner and keeps a well stocked kitchen for breakfast and lunch. All clients receive a gym membership and access to yoga. Weekly house excursions around NYC provide an emphasis on building community.
Located a few blocks away from the Bedford Avenue stop on the L train, residents live in the heart of Brooklyn's ultra-hip Williamsburg neighborhood. With over 7,000 square feet of open floor plan and separate male and female housing, our lofts foster an open community that no other NY residence can offer. The chic converted warehouse space boasts exquisite views of the East River, amazing boutiques, cafes, and is only a ten-minute subway ride from Union Square, the Village, and Downtown Manhattan.
