All Right Reserved. So, here are some images from their Class of '71, '72 and '73 yearbooks. It was a Dutch settlement until 1683, when the British crown would take over Bushwick, along with other towns, and unite them under the name Kings County. You could fill a whole tiny paper bag with them for like 10 cents! PS133 & The Marboro Theater are among the great structures lost. Nothing better exemplified the growing defeatism of the NYPD, which was reacting to crime rather than aggressively fighting it, than a detectives response when asked why the local precinct hadnt responded: We do what we can with the gang. I remember his pipe and the sweet scent it had (not foul like cigars) and his kindly manner. Iguess if he did stop every time a kid raised a hand, hed never get done! Remembering Jackie Robinson [SpliceToday]. Faro, a Bushwick mainstay for fresh pasta and seasonal produce, is closing after eight years serving the neighborhood from its Jefferson Street location. Bushwick. Ms. Vega was a beauty and lived at one of my fathers buildings at 735 Bushwick avenue.Later her family and she moved to the Lindsey Houses further towards Williamsburg. And an advocacy group, the Youth Power Project, has been rallying the areas Latino youth against some of the new building and renovating, claiming that it will push out poor residents. More detailed message would go here to provide context for the user and how to proceed. Be sure to work with a Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY real estate agent who can offer detailed information about any multi-unit properties for sale that you might be interested in and help you make an informed purchasing . Any relation to you? 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. It borders the Queens borough. Im a writer and would love to interview anybody who grew up near the Jefferson L train between 1977-1995. Citywide, robberies spiked about 30% in 2022 over previous years. Though compromised by time, its arched windows and details such as tie-rod caps stand the test of time. Im also looking for anybody who graduated from BHS between 1980-84: 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. It was a great place to be raised. Hi, Many defaulted, abandoning their homes and massively depressing local property values. There was also the Alhambra movie house and Putnam st playground. 5,727 posts, read 19,404,410 times Reputation: 2350. Murphy's $53 billion budget: More property tax relief, spending on schools, mental health. "It's been an amazing journey and, after almost eight years, the time has come to close the doors at Faro. I will never forget him. The remaining shop owners were mostly absentees who lived in other parts of the city, and couldnt get to their businesses to protect them. 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. The South Bushwick Reformed Churchat Bushwick and Himrod dates to 1853. You could wait for your shoes to be fixed in these little stalls when we could afford a tv itwas always black&white went to bushick HS we left dekalb ave and moved near knickerbocker ave in the 60s till I finished HS hope to hear from all be well great memories, I remeber the Menorah a religious group brought the building and turned it into a kid Lived there with my grandparents in 1966 then we moved to Willoughby Ave between Knickerbocker, right by Knickerbocker Park & Wilson for about 9 years. 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. 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. As race riots ripped apart other cities, including Detroit and Newark, unscrupulous real-estate agents and speculators tried to frighten white Bushwick residentsa practice known as blockbusting. Homeowners would find ominous messages in their mailboxesDont wait until its too late!as well as encouraging ones: Houses wanted, cash waiting. In a massive scandal reminiscent of todays subprime-mortgage meltdown, speculators bought homes from Bushwick residents for an average of $8,000 apiece, and then, using fraudulent appraisals and a Great Society federal mortgage program that insured home loans to low-income buyers, sold them to poor blacks and Puerto Ricans at prices that they couldnt afford on average, about $20,000 per home. I went to P.S. NYPD credits them with at least 17 homicides in the late 70's. Lindsay won kudosand eventually a spot on a national commission on racefor keeping a lid on racial tensions in New York, which didnt experience the kind of cataclysmic riots that tore apart Watts in 1965 and Memphis, Newark, and Detroit in 1967. Do you have Dittenhoefers in you family tree? He was a very nice man. We stayed with relatives and then moved for a while to 70 Covert Street because I attended 14 Holy Martyrs Parochial School right there. [Full-of-it allert ;-)] Look at this NBC News reportage from about teenage gang The Devils Rebels that used to operate in the infamous83rd precinct, Brooklyn. 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. It has family services SCO Offices and the other Part of the former hospital is now a homeless shelter. 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? View Flyer. I graduated in 1965. Bushwick, in northeast Brooklyn,is surrounded by Bedford-Stuyvesant on the west, Williamsburgh on the north, and Ridgewood to the northeast. 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. At times, the groups have viewed each other warily. I went to PS74 and then PS274. We lived on Kossuth Place and I went to the old PS74 one block west on Kozciusko Street, then PS274 on Bushwick and Kozciusko. Also remember the Little Sisters of the Poor convent and old age home on Bushwick and DeKalb. Back in the late nineties, Tom Le, a choreographer who moved to Manhattan from San Francisco, found himself regularly visiting artist friends who had staked out a piece of Bushwick, attracted by the large loft spaces in abandoned warehouses that ringed the area. Frenzy ensued. I also got a penny for a paper cup to get water at the empire. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. . Also remember Dr. Davis. Early Days. Now there's some amazing footage that's resurfaced of the '70s Bushwick gang, originally broadcast as . Often described by residents as a forgotten neighborhood, Bushwick was once a solid blue-collar community. Investigators arrested one local welfare family that had collected $40,000 from the city for 13 fires that it set. 127 Schaefer St. NEW CONSTRUCTION 6 FAMILY IN BUSHWICK. At bedtime, residents began dressing children in street clothes instead of pajamas so that they could make a quick escape from late-night fires. Cafe Erzulie, a Haitian cafe in Bushwick, often hosts live performances, Caribbean music nights, and steel drum bands in their backyard. 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 window tilts inward for easy cleaning and operation. Vintage Film Show Bushwick Gangs and Brooklyn's 83rd Precinct in the 1970s. Renter-occupied homes with any health-related maintenance problems (percent) 2017. Gina, do you remember shopping on Broadway, down under the El? At 9:27 p.m., the hulking Ravenswood 3 power plant on Queens East River waterfront went down, plunging the city into darkness. Today well look at what became of Dr. Cooks mansion and others along Bushwick Avenue, as well as a foray or two elsewhere in this fascinatingif little- mentioned enclave. Donate today, Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations. "That '70s Bar." The rating scale of 0 to 100 reflects our editors' appraisals of all the tangible and intangible factors that make a restaurant or bar . Dr. Davis was my doc as well. Does anyone remember the Halsey Bops? On the most recent surveys circulated by the city's Department of Education, at least 90 percent of parents at every primary and middle school in . Like many names in Brooklyn, Bushwick is derived from Dutch and means town in the woods. Once a separate town in Kings County, it became a part of Brooklyn in 1869. Far from pushing people out, Freeman has found, neighborhood upgrades like Bushwicks encourage many residents to stay and enjoy the fruits of revival. I lived at 16 Arion Pl. Stacey, I enjoyed this thread very much. (254) 5.2 1 h 33 min 2017 X-Ray NR. When the owners are rock musicians, expect a lot of rock, including late-70s rock and punk (Buzzcocks, Blondie) and alt-80s favorites (Public Image Ltd., Nine Inch Nails). Inside, there is a bouncer who checks IDs, even for those clearly above age 30. If they could eat each other, they would, if it comes down to that. I remember sitting in the living room of some longtime residents of Bushwick who described what they had been through, Koch says. There is a vegan option too and coffee well made! Naturally, I thought of all the grand houses on Bushwick Avenue as mansions. Even parts of Ridgewood and Glendale are going downhill. But in fact . Andrew Karpan is a writer based in Ridgewood. Typical is this December escapade recounted by a twentysomething Manhattan woman on the blog New York Adventures: After an afternoon spent at the Bryant Park Christmas market and the Clinique counter at Lord & Taylor, I convinced Rachel that it was a good idea to do something a bit more adventuresome for dinner on Saturday night . The young men are wearing homemade body armor, suggesting they were on their way to a fight with a rival gang. Riding home in the car with my Parents after visiting relatives, we always passed that. Any one know of the place she is thinking of. John Hylan,NYC mayor from 1918 to 1925, lived at 959 Bushwick Avenue (the brownstone one over from the extreme right). "Not every fire that occurred in Bushwick was arson," said John Dereszewski, then the Community Board 4 district manager and later a neighborhood historian. ), but we need to keep the old neighborhoods as old neighborhoods and not fancy condo incubators. His waiting room was always packed. I wounder if you were in my class there was a girl names Gina in my 1st grade class .. at PS 274.. my teachers name was Ms Salvatore ..? MOST LIKELY BE FORE YOUR TIME. Household Size: 1 - 3 . The 1970s were not a good time to be a working-class neighborhood in New York City. On the commercial strip beneath the elevated J train tracks, 45 stores were set ablaze; a few days later, what became known as the "All Hands Fire" started in an abandoned factory, taking out 23 more buildings in the heart of the neighborhood. New York also rebuilt its police and fire forces and constructed a new precinct house in Bushwickmoves that helped reduce crime in the area during the early eighties. I believe that the bar was on Bushwick Ave near the corner of Kosciusko St. We lived across the street at 833 Bushwick Ave. What a wonderful Life and experience it was to grow up in Bushwick in that era! As an adult, i think it was amazing for its time. He was a wonderful distinguished doctor that treated the entire I miss the many friends I had there for all those years. My family moved to Bushwick in 1/4/1955 from Myrtle Avenue between Sumner and Throop Aves. We went roller skating with my relatives at the Hillside Roller Rink. By . After decades of shunning Bushwick, investors and builders have squarely set their sights on it. Cops and community leaders attribute the troubling uptick to a trend afflicting urban areas across the country, in which teens settle their differences in ever more violent ways even as other crime continues to decline. I hope it is still there and they have no plans to scratch if off because neighborhood history should include things that were important to people who lived there in every era, no just when the building was first built. I recently read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and was amazed at all of the memories I had of a place I never thought twice about. The Angel of Victory With Peace was installed here in 1921 and honors Bushwicks 93 casualties in World War I. I lived at 162 elders street Brooklyn between 1943 to 1951 when we moved to Babylon and then to Levittown, where I still live. Carmine , I Hope this message finds you well , you used to cut through my backyard fence to get to Cedar street without walking around the block , yes its youre Old Friend Eric Erdmann . 10 Vintage Photos Of New York When Disco Ruled And Bushwick Was A War Zone. Izzies or Izzys, is the name I remember. 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 . Founded in 1638, chartered by Peter Stuyvesant in 1661, Bushwick was originally Boswijck. Ambitious renewables mandates by local governments are eroding the electric grids reliability, with alarming consequences. Bushwicks residential resurrection is also spurring bold entrepreneurs to gamble on the areas commercial future. After the visit kids could pick a small toy from a cardboard box as a reward! Kathy, Kathy I do remember the little sisters of the poor we lived on the next block we shopped on Knickerbocker ave only went to broadway for certain stores which I cannot remember I do reemember the shoemaker Mr.butafucco I hope I spelled his name right. Would love to hear from you. By 10 oclock this night, some are ready for the action, some are not. I am hoping to visit his wife and go through some of the old photos, of which there are thousands. The ninety-three dead who were sacrificed to it are carved on the handsome pedestal. Kamelia Angelova. until 1957 when I was 11 years old. Theres also a strong gay and lesbian presence, which may say more about the generation than the bar itself. Williamsburg's energy is unmatched, especially since the neighborhood has become a mecca for the creative-types. We were the first Black people to move on Bleecker Street, between Evergreen & Central Ave. Used to pass the Bar when we went up to school and coming home as we went to Halsey Junior High School #85. The nuns used to wear those hats like the Flying Nun. I welcome anyone who wants to send me a line, thanks! Finally, though, Bushwick burst into national headlines. If you do find one, could you post here about it? The Utz party mix in faux wood bowls is free. Bushwick: Directed by Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion. It is now as much the neighborhood of rats, strait dogs and burned out buildings, as it is of people. I am writing a book about a youth that grew up in Brooklyn, involved in gangs and all kinds of things adolescents get involved at that age. How The 1977 Blackout Was Bushwick's Grimmest Moment, We rely on your support to make local news available to all, To guard against robberies, NYPD tells businesses to require customers to unmask, Rent-stabilized Harlem tenants sue after 'Frankenstein' renovations carve up apartments, State investigation of babys death at Mount Sinai NICU underway, 'A lot to be desired': Grand Central Madison train service causes LIRR commuter headaches, NJ Gov. This is what the kids saw every day, she recalls somberly. This 1890 shingle-style home, built for a Charles Lindemann in 1890, was recently restored. Sketching Henderson Place [SpliceToday] 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. The White people who used to hang out in there seemed like they were having a lot of fun. We got the strawberry shortcake cupcake, delicious. 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. We lived on Kossuth Place and my Dad would take me for walks after dinner, mostly on Bushwick Avenue. More feel, less steel. I remember you well you lived on dekalb ave? What was on the corner of Bushwick Ave and Decatur Street before that Daycare Center was there?? On Broadway and Arion Placeis the hulk of the old Arion Mnnerchor, Bushwicks foremost German singing society. Let us know! In 1981, community leader Luis Garden Acosta called northern Brooklyn the "killing fields" for the number of teenagers killed in gang conflicts. Please advise. It may . New businessesan organic grocery store, a fashionable restaurantseem to be opening on every corner. Highland Park was walking distance. Murders dropped from 1990s 77 to 12 in 1998. Little in Bushwicks evolution from a bucolic seventeenth-century town to a robust twentieth-century working-class neighborhood suggested that it would one day symbolize urban breakdown. do you have a picture of #52 beaver st bklyn,before demolishion for ps 120 school, DOES ANY BODY HAVE A PHOTO OF MY GRANDPARENTS HOUSE @52 BEAVER ST,BKLYN, I lived in the Williamsburg Projects from 1940-1950/51. Currently awaiting true renovation, its home to offices and light manufacturing. Had my first taste of racism there. They drink beer and wine. And they pop pills- uppers and downers. . Around the same time, feeling they had no stake in the neighborhoods future at the time, landlords began to put less money into maintaining their largely wood-frame buildings, and politicians put less effort into gaining city resources for improvements to what they viewed as a dead-end neighborhood. 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