bushwick in the 70s

I have part of one, but would love see more. I lived at 46 Bleecker St., between Evergreen and Central Ave. From 68-71. Bushwick. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. It should not be missed if youre in Bushwick. Then during the late 60s, early 70s, I think it became a residence (while the nuns were still there) for juveniles. The nuns used to wear those hats like the Flying Nun. For these Sicilians, the tight-knit and deeply religious community of Bushwick was a welcoming and familiar destination. The building ceased to be used as a brewery at the dawn of Prohibition in 1920. Our doctor was as dedicated and also practiced out of his home in Brooklyn heights He was known as the $5 doctor who also did not charge those who couldnt afford it Dr. Salvatore Altcheck was his name. thank you. This chaos broke out just as New York was rocked by a deep fiscal crisis, largely the product of Lindsays wild overspending on social welfare. The last brewery in Bushwick closed in 1976. Enjoy. The New-York Times. Nadine Whitted, like Dereszewski, wasnt quite a Bushwick nativeshe grew up just across Broadway in Bedford-Stuyvesantbut shed since made up for lost time, first working for Dereszewski at the community board and later taking over his role as district manager. These days it could use a paint job. The experiences I had learning English was something that I never forgot because I wanted to make sure that the students I work with never have those experiences. We lived at 141 Eldert Street between Central and Evergreen, but around 1957 a fire started in the house next door, 139 Eldert, and the fire and water damage destroyed half the block including our house. Finally, to defend his family, Piccione grabbed a gun and blew away several of his assailants (he was charged with manslaughter but acquitted). Renter-occupied homes with any health-related maintenance problems (percent) 2017. There is a vegan option too and coffee well made! This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. My friends lived on Stockholm near Knickerbocker and Wilson, Their names were Salerno and Lombardino. Giuliani passed the first substantial tax cuts in decades, as well as welfare reform that was soon expanded by federal legislation, which put many of those on public assistance back to work. Great fun and many hours for a dime.The Monroe was right across the street from the RKO. . The video made by NBC, contains a lot of footage shot with a concealed camera "with a special night vision lens" [aw!]. The areas now called Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick (Community Boards 1 and 4) were originally one Dutch settlement, the Town of Bushwick. Best regards, Kathy. By the early seventies, infernos blazed nightly. With dynamic modern architecture that emphasizes space, light exposure, and luxury interiors, these 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms exemplify only Williamsburg's best value - competitive with the rest of the market. After the breweries closed or moved,starting in the 50s and continuing into the 70s when all were gone, Bushwick suffered a slow decline, culminating in July 1977 when, during a blackout, Bushwick , in effect, was destroyed by arson and looting. Photos of Bushwick in the mid-70s show an incredible sight: block upon block of abandoned apartment buildings, many of them bearing facades marked by ashy smudges rising up window frames. I always had to lug that old two-wheel folding shopping cart along. 670 Bushwick Avenue was not the Ulmer mansion. Is this Carmine who was friends with Joe Zito and Mary Winckel? Unlike today when kids have many public (or personal) pools, that was a HUGE treat for us! Every chance I got, I went to the Public Library on Bushwick and DeKalb. Young kids from Manhattan are now getting married here because its something different., Now that its safer, Bushwicks still-somewhat-gritty, blue-collar feel does lend it cachet among New Yorkers who find heavily gentrified areas like the East Village no longer edgy enough. The key to keeping the market vibrant and ensuring that new buyers grab those foreclosed homes isnt government mortgage bailouts, as some have urged; its keeping a handle on Bushwicks crime and disorder. Find the perfect place to live. 35 years later and Bushwick still sucks. Cops broke that one up . The only challenge is navigating all the smokers on the sidewalk. "It's been an amazing journey and, after almost eight years, the time has come to close the doors at Faro. I was assigned to be assistant senior patrol leader in the spring of 62, but moved that summer to Long Island. There were also all the other stores. Though compromised by time, its arched windows and details such as tie-rod caps stand the test of time. Like to hear from any of my childhood friends from Willoughby from 1966 to 1975. Finally, though, Bushwick burst into national headlines. 05-28-2012, 06:08 PM . Bushwick is one of the northernmost neighborhoods located in Brooklyn. Yearbooks always viewed . Note the Ionic columns. Cypress pool. The ensuing All Hands Fire devoured 30 buildings and left 250 families homeless. D-Stroy's own rap roots claim deep heritage too. Open in Google Maps. The value of our townhouse on the Bushwick Bed-Stuy border just increased by 24% in the last 15 months. This 1890 shingle-style home, built for a Charles Lindemann in 1890, was recently restored. I grew up on Arion Place tooFrom 1959 to 1970 and we continued to own and rent out our two family townhouse untill I sold it for my Mom after my father passed away in 1979. Birdys is among a rash of new bars that have opened in this formerly remote section of Bushwick. The following afternoon, with power now restored to much of the city, Dereszewski headed over from his home in Greenpoint to take a stroll down Broadway. Does anyone remember the name of the Italian bakery on Wilson ave near maybe evergreen? The parents of Bushwick appear to be in love with their neighborhood schools. Went to him on Bushwick & Bleecker. We went to KeyFood for groceries, Tomasellis Meat Market, and Romas Italian Salumeria. Hope you have lots of happy memories. "These were kids who just wanted to be kids, but they were facing overwhelming odds," says Meryl Meisler, who taught in . This place is such a gem. I remember that! "People started screaming," former hotel . I am hoping to visit his wife and go through some of the old photos, of which there are thousands. It was, in retrospect, a worst-case scenario. Must see in person as it is bigger than it appears. Jun 2, 2011, 1:42 PM. Dr. Puderback, Dr. Macaluso. I went to school for a few years at P.S. Built 1931. Please email me at elizbaumann@gmail.com. (It didnt help that once the lights went out, Mayor Abe Beames administration ordered police to report to their nearest precinctwhich, given where most officers then lived, largely meant reporting for duty in middle-class white areas far from where they were most needed.) Summer s they would open the school for neighbor kids. He passed in 2010 in Florida. Far from pushing people out, Freeman has found, neighborhood upgrades like Bushwicks encourage many residents to stay and enjoy the fruits of revival. I HAVE ENJOYED READING ALL THE COMMENTS ON BUSHWICK. I want to know the name of a bar that was on the corner of Bushwick with a piano on the roof, THE NAME OF THE BAR WAS THE GIG IT WAS ON THE CORNER OF SCHAEFER ST & BUSHWICK AVE, Are there any pictures of the outside of The Gig of the piano-playing mannequin? inside). Welcome to 70 Bushwick located in Brooklyn.The building is constructed with dynamic modern architecture that emphasizes space, light exposure, and luxury interiors. My sister was his patient. And it joined forces with a private-sector initiative, the New York Housing Partnership, to begin constructing two- and three-family middle-income homes again in the neighborhood, using vacant city-bequeathed land and money from private donors. I lived four hou ses down from ps85. YES , I LIVED ON DE KALB AVE. WITH MY SISTERS AND MY GRANDPARENTS LIVED NEXT DOOR, I KNEW MY DEAR FRIEND JOE ZITO, NOW DECEASED, AND THE WONDERFUL MARY WINCKEL, WHO RAN FOR THE STATE ASSEMBLY. His name should always be associated with that building. When the Depression hit in the 1930s and banks began failing left and right, the federal government stepped in with the Home Owners Loan Corporation, which offered cheap loans for properties that it deemed unlikely to fall into foreclosure. I lived at 16 Arion Pl. Eighteen minutes later, another lightning strike knocked out two additional power lines, leaving the system dangerously overloaded. Meryl Meisler turned heads last year with her photographs of Bushwick in the late '70s and early '80s, when the neighborhood was racked by arson, economic crisis, and crime, epitomized in the chaos of the 1977 blackout. Theyre like cavemen, a local addict named Cookie told two criminologists studying the area. If so, could you email me a picture. Textile mills that had provided jobs along the Bushwick/East Williamsburg border were starting to close. If I find a photo of the Piano Man as I called him, Ill post back here again. You can reach him on Twitter or at [email . Judge Salas mansion at 992 Bushwick Aven. Details ; Units; Map; Photos; Who Should Apply; How to Apply ; Details. His name was Dr. Clement Davis. Bushwicks full revival took time, though, and happened long after other areas of the city, with less sordid pasts and better-preserved infrastructure, came back. This is how the night starts for The Devils Rebels- with heavy drinking. The most surprising thing is we now get people coming here to do events because they hear Bushwick is the hot neighborhood, says Lindamood. He was a wonderful distinguished doctor that treated the entire Now there's some amazing footage that's resurfaced of the '70s Bushwick gang, originally broadcast as . If you do find one, could you post here about it? send to yankeedoodle1947@aim .com "As students arrive at school each morning, they look forward to another day at Woodlawn.". Some of the Happiest days of my Life were growing up in Brooklyn! My favorite teacher was Mr.Louis Vogel. I went to P.S. Went to PS 123 and PS 162. Bushwicks residential resurrection is also spurring bold entrepreneurs to gamble on the areas commercial future. and rats, the cheap candy at the candy stores and bodegas, the broken concrete sidewalks, stickball, and I could just go on and on. The 1970s were not a good time to be a working-class neighborhood in New York City. Too bad no one with similar aspirations of serving people instead of displacing them resides there now. Opened in September by members of the local rock band Weeknight (Holly MacGibbon and Andy Simmons), the bar channels 1970s-era rock with kitschy touches like pinball machines, a bust of Elvis lording over the bar and a vintage Colt 45 advertisement with Billy Dee Williams. Today, the city's heralded renaissance is often contrasted with the bad old days of the 1970s, a dark, distant past through which the city had to pass to arrive at the rosy present. Men living near abandoned homes began sleeping on porches, guns by their sides, ready to drive off arsonists. Yet the mid-nineties saw a breathtaking restoration of order in the neighborhood, beginning when Mayor Rudolph Giulianis first police commissioner, William Bratton, revamped the NYPD and its crime-fighting methods. If you couldnt pay then he never turned you away. Here are some of my favorite quotes from the video: .and this is the part of Brooklyn that few people see anymore It is the 83rd precint, a battleground for the police and young street criminals. My mother would take me there and wed have Western omelette sandwiches. Any old photos of where this might have been? Ill put my info below hoping for a response. PS133 & The Marboro Theater are among the great structures lost. I decided to get out of there because there was no one to protect you., On Broadway alone that night, looters pillaged 134 stores and set 44 of them on fire, burning some, like Woolworths, to the ground. [VIDEO] What's Left of New York City's Lost Croton Reservoir? One worrying sign: lenders made a huge number of subprime mortgages in Bushwickmore than half of all mortgages in the area in 2005 and 2006which could mean lots of foreclosed and empty homes back on the market as the subprime crisis continues. Luke Fortney/Eater NY. You have been selected and considered for a vacant 1 bedroom unit at 70 Bushwick Avenue Apartments. Few men in all history have ever been made to suffer so bitterly and so inexpressibly as I because of the assertion of my achievement.. "It used to be a Muslim sect on Bushwick. Theres also a strong gay and lesbian presence, which may say more about the generation than the bar itself. Citywide, robberies spiked about 30% in 2022 over previous years. Question: Im working on a memory book for my mom. As a new year dawns, residents await leadership that can address the citys harrowing crime problem. In 1981, community leader Luis Garden Acosta called northern Brooklyn the "killing fields" for the number of teenagers killed in gang conflicts. He is the author of The New New Left, a collection of his City Journal essays. Todash, whose insurance firm has served the neighborhood for more than 40 years, can hardly believe that this is the same Bushwick that became synonymous with urban chaos during the late 1960s and early 1970s, ravaged by fires, rioting, and looting until it resembled a war zone. 70 Weirfield Street #1.1, Brooklyn, NY 11221, US offers 1 bedroom apartments for rent or lease. (When I went past again in 2010, it was again occupied!). Research for this article was supported by the Brunie Fund for New York Journalism. When you look at the homes on some of these streets, you can see how this was once a family neighborhood, says Le. I went to 14 holy martyrs in the 40s and 50s. A bit further up Bushwick Avenue,on Meserole Street, a buildings sign testifies Bushwick Avenues old name: The Boulevard. The photographs were taken to improve the process of determining and recording property value assessments. All rights reserved. On a recent Saturday night, the cute 20-something crowd was buzzing about one retro touch in particular: drink prices. So he must have owned the house for about 30 years . 145 (happy days) and later St. Leonards RC School (not happy days) just off Wilson Ave. NBC News used a hidden night-camera to capture gang activity by the Devils Rebels in Bushwick, along with the police attempting to stop it. Nor were firebugs the only problem. Dear Bert Pennington, sorry I just got back to this site after 2/3 years. Unfortunately, if you remember that was the Little Sisters of the Poor Convent Home there on Willoughby & Bushwick during the 1950s. The Angel of Victory With Peace was installed here in 1921 and honors Bushwicks 93 casualties in World War I. Highland Park was walking distance. When D-Stroy turned the Bushwick Bomb Squad into the Arsonists after that harrowing incident in Knickerbocker Park, it was a move that mirrored old school pioneer Afrika Bambaataa's mission to end gang violence in the South Bronx in the late '70s with the formation of the Universal Zulu Nation. Im wondering if you were in my class? Been living here in Bushwick since 1/4/1955. ?? Irene Barbuto. "But when you dont maintain, electrical fires can occur. I went to 14 holy martyrs in the 40s and 50s. My old school, PS 24 is gone and, Bushwick Ave. has changed a bit. The hall was converted to residential use in 2003-2004 as the Opera House Lofts. Dad said wed get a color tv after they were perfected. Once they repaired the houses on Eldert, we moved back in to 139, next to our original house. Does it still exist? It seems fitting, then, that Staten Islands longest boulevard is named for him. An estimated 500 Bushwick buildings ended up vacant in this way. Renters. The south end of the El was still operating then, before they tore it down in 1970. Thank you. I miss the many friends I had there for all those years. NYCs Christmas Streets [SpliceToday] Doing a history project of Bushwick for urban dynamics. 2023 New York Public Radio. My Mom and I walked to Broadway to the Library, or to the Loews Gates Avenue to see a movie, and we saw the 3 Stooges in person there! This vintage footage from the 1970s shows an incredible glimpse into old New York. I will always remember dr. Clement Davis . I was at born 1269 Bushwick Ave, corner of Halsey family home. I still have some really great memories from P.S. But years later, in the 70s and 80s, with the decline of industry and the increase of population and poverty, crime and illegal drugs, Williamsburg was a bad . I, too, went to 14 Holy Martyrs School and started school in 1936 until 1944 and then to St. Josephs Commercial High School until 1949. 40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A Little Neck, NY 11363. Birdy's, a Bushwick bar that channels the 70s rock era, brings in a young crowd. So we went to McCurran(sp) public pool. Yet the scenes of anarchic destruction, broadcast around the world, also brought the first faint signs of hope. Early Days. Broadway, which with Bushwick Avenue comprise the main arteries of Bushwick, are still attempting . NYPD credits them with at least 17 homicides in the late 70's. . I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR OLD PICTURES OF THE BLOCK. It may . Mom thought St. Barbaras on Bushwick was too pretty and would be too much of a distraction during Sunday mass. After a decade of disorder, Bushwick had hit bottomwhole blocks were now abandoned and destroyed. The most visible and best-known group of artists in Bushwick is The Bushwick Collective. After the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the town's name was anglicized to Bushwick. We lived on Kossuth Place back in the 1950s and 60s. Upward of 70 percent of female-headed Bushwick families were impoverished. There is luxury apartments there now sad to say. You said it exactly like I remember ,, I lived on bleecst up the block from st barbara where I went to school. As with most dentists, he said to raise my hand if it hurt, but he didnstop anyway! Some early arrivals claim that landlords hoodwinked them into thinking that they were moving to an already gentrifying Williamsburg. Flecks of its originalred-and gold paint job are still there on the bay window. My Parents, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins used to go roller skating at Hillside Roller Rink! The police recognized that the people who knew the most about what was going on were Bushwicks citizens, and they turned to us for information and help, recalls Reverend Michael Clarke of Bushwicks Global Ministries in Christ Church. Lived there with my grandparents in 1966 then we moved to Willoughby Ave between Knickerbocker, right by Knickerbocker Park & Wilson for about 9 years. But I still remember the sewing factories in the neighborhood, Brunckhorsts (now Boars Head) just off Bogart St., the subway exits and the grates where the whoosh of the wind from the moving L trains would blind you with dust, the fire station on Morgan Ave., the 3 story walk ups (half of which burned down in the 70s), the trash everywhere, the good neighbors, the bad gangs, the salsa and doo-wop music, the smell of chestnuts in the winter, the roaches (!) Whether Cookwas the true discoverer of the North Pole should be left to historians to decide. ", As Wilder later explained in Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Deans 2012 documentary My Brooklyn, "One of the most consistent ways of figuring out what [grade] a neighborhood was going to get was simply recent ethnicity. It captures a regular night of The Devils Rebels in Bushwick getting drunk, some casual gang member stabbing, and a subsequent confrontation with the cops. In Williamsburg - Bushwick, the children under 6 years with elevated blood lead levels (bll) (rate bll>=5 per 1,000 tested) . Then I passed one day and it was being torn down. With Bushwick beginning to thrive again, New York City has finally left behind the disorder and failure that flowed from the misguided liberal reforms of the sixties and seventies. With Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Angelic Zambrana, Jeremie Harris. It may look like an old-man dive bar, but the scene inside Birdys is super young. Gina, do you remember shopping on Broadway, down under the El? Leifs That Are Green [SpliceToday] The Brooklyn Wars is now available. Jo Ann I ,(Miguel Mike Hernandez) went to PS 24 on Arion and Beaver in the late 1940s and early 1950s. I was in Troop 300 with you. We popped out of the Jefferson Street subway on the L train and were greeted with nothing but warehouses and lights in the distance. When that old house had all the first floor lights on at evening time, it was amazingly beautiful. THERE WAS ONLY TWO HOUSES ON THE BLOCK ALL THE REST BELONGED TO A TRUCK BODY CO. HEARNS. View 11 pictures of the 93 units for 70 Bushwick Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11211 - Apartments for Rent | Zillow, as well as Zestimates and nearby comps. It consisted of modern day Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint. It contains programs for family care, Community Board No. Trends Over Time. One big Lindsay misstep was to hike rental subsidies for welfare recipients, which encouraged Bushwick landlords to fill vacant units with such tenants, since they now brought higher rents than ordinary tenants would pay on the open market. It has recently been owned by a stone sculptor and marble worker and later, furniture designer/restaurateur Zeb Stewart. The reality is that any neighborhood that had five percent or more black population immediately got a D.", The effect was to magnify both racial and economic segregation: Over the next two or three decades, anyone in a redlined neighborhood who could afford to flee did, fearing that theyd never be able to get a reasonable bank loan to make improvements on their property. I still kind of miss it! When a U.S. based military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood, 20-year-old Lucy and war veteran Stupe must depend on each other to survive. I came from Puerto Rico and did not speak English so at first they put me in the CRMD Class (Children with Retarded Mental Difficulties) After a few months went back to the regular 2nd grade class. Welcome Home! After the breweries closed or moved, starting in the 50s and continuing into the 70s when all were gone, Bushwick suffered a slow decline, culminating in July 1977 when, during a blackout, Bushwick , in effect, was destroyed by arson and looting. One group of investors, for example, recently purchased an empty warehouse on Bushwicks fringes and revamped it into office space for artists and designers. Dr. Davids house was always there and he was one of a dying bread of dedicated family physicians. And they pop pills- uppers and downers. Wow, I lived at the end of the blockon Stockholm near Wilson Ave, it always got flooded when it rained. One of my ancestors, Thomas Taylor, ran a pipemaking business up until 1871 in Bushwick. After steep pandemic membership losses, unions made small gains last year amid a broader U.S. economic rebound. Ive done quite a bit of research and interviews with my neighbors, but every bit helps. I remember attending functions there.. The restaurants warm feel, accentuated by a wood-burning pizza oven imported from Italy, contrasts sharply with the buildings stark exterior, which once housed a construction company. at around 1959 to 1972. This week, Gothamist is running excerpts from The Brooklyn Wars, a new book from journalist Neil deMause about the social, economic, and political forces that have radically reshaped Brooklyn over the past four decades. Violenceespecially gang violenceflared up again. Born in Bavaria, Anton Vigelius immigrated to Brooklyn in 1840 at the age of 18 and was involved in the produce business prior to opening the brewery. 4 at the lobby barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel on Seventh Avenue between 55th and 56th streets. The Utz party mix in faux wood bowls is free. You'll find galleries and rock venues in former warehousesmany of which serve as legal canvases for street artistsand some of the borough's best nightlife. Artist Allan Tannenbaum, who photographed New York in the seventies and eighties, remembers the "misery of long lines to buy gasoline." He wrote that conditions in Bed-Stuy were especially bad: "It seemed as if the entire infrastructure was in decay."Ferdinando Scianna. The land was purchased from the Canarsie Indians in 1638 and officially chartered by Governor Peter Stuyvesant in 1660. You could fill a whole tiny paper bag with them for like 10 cents! Crime in general in Bushwick soared 50 percent during the first half of the seventies, with burglaries and robberies leading the way, increasing to nearly 8,500 per yearup from 4,500 in 1971. Those include Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Cypress Hill, and East New York. It is now as much the neighborhood of rats, strait dogs and burned out buildings, as it is of people. Next door to St. Barbaras, a stained-glass house number echoes the churchs detail. I am approaching my 87th birthday and those memories are still so vivid in my mind. Hylan paid particular attentionto transit issues during his tenure (he used to operate a loco on the Brooklyn els). We hoped the lights were the restaurant because otherwise I had led everyone on a total boondoggle. The price of rentals is skyrocketing. Both are works of sculptor Pietro Montana. At bedtime, residents began dressing children in street clothes instead of pajamas so that they could make a quick escape from late-night fires. Bushwick has completely changed these days but I do remember this home. Anybody remembers the El Quintos, ,Latin Gents, Royal counts they covered Myrtle Ave., White , Broadway, Scholes St. ,and up and down Bushwick Ave., headquartered at the Bottom, More St. and Bushwick Ave? Multifamily 9.65% CAP 6 Units. In a kind of reverse cultural commuting that would have been unthinkable when Bushwick was consumed by fires or crack, Manhattanites now venture to the neighborhood to check out its emerging scene. Only recentlyafter years of tireless work by government (especially the police), local groups, and the private sectorhas the revitalization of this once-proud neighborhood begun. I lived on Troutman between Bushwick and Evergreen. Often described by residents as a forgotten neighborhood, Bushwick was once a solid blue-collar community. Lenny's Pizza of 'Saturday Night Fever' Fame Closes After 70 Years in . Mr. Wilson, I remember Dr. Davis too. I normally dont open up, but you can email me at manny300m@hotmail.com to swap stories. i was shown as a child mayor hylans house,dr fredrick cooks mansion,and remember the many many churches lining bushwick ave. Williamsburg's premier new construction is now on the market at 70 Bushwick! We would all sing in the car but if we passed Evergreen Cemetery my Uncle made us be silent for respect for the Dead. Anyone can read what you share. r/nyc, the subreddit about New York City The AIA Guide gives the address as 670 Bushwick and says its on the corner of Bushwick & Willoughby, as the house pictured on this page is. That distinction goesto St. Barbaras Roman Catholic Church at Central Avenue and Bleecker Street. I learned how to shoot pool, play poker,basket ball and many other things. Riding home in the car with my Parents after visiting relatives, we always passed that. This five-part series, the Bushwick Wars, traces the story of Bushwick from the 1970s to the present day. Someone drove up with a truck and hooked a chain around the gates of the furniture store, then used the truck to pull them off. Bushwick Community Darkroom is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Daryl-Ann Saunders, "Pioneers of Bushwick: Revealed", at Loom Building (lobby gallery area), 1087 Flushing Ave between Knickerbocker Ave and Porter St. in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, 11237.Hours are 8am-9 pm daily from Tuesday, May 28th and extended through Monday, July 29th. Toting a camera during her teaching years, Meisler captured some of the impressions that the collapsing neighborhood made on local children an abandoned playground overgrown with weeds, a view from a classroom of ruined buildings and empty lots. The bar was across the street from my Dads office at 1338 Bushwick avenue.It sat on the north/esat corner of Schaffer street. In the back, a spacious rec room has wood paneling, foosball and four pinball machines. Perhaps because it didnt explode all at once, Bushwick remained largely beneath press notice, its problems unaddressed by the city. 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