June 11, 2024 - 7:00 PM
70°F/ 21°C
Neighborhood walking tour (without narration) of Bushwick, Brooklyn from the Morgan Avenue L train station to Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza via the following route: southbound on Bogart Street → eastbound on Thames Street → eastbound on Knickerbocker Avenue → Maria Hernandez Park → northbound on Starr Street → eastbound on Wyckoff Avenue → Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza. Filmed with GoPro Hero 12.
Highlights:
00:00 - Morgan Avenue (L train) subway station, walking southbound on Bogart Street
01:37 - Roberta's pizzeria
03:21 - Walking eastbound on Thames Street
06:50 - Walking eastbound on Knickerbocker Avenue
12:54 - Maria Hernandez Park
15:59 - Walking northbound on Starr Street
18:25 - The Sultan Room Turkish restaurant and music venue
19:05 - Walking eastbound on Wyckoff Avenue, Jefferson Street (L train) subway station
22:35 - DeKalb Avenue (L train) subway station
23:39 - Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
32:46 - Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza
From Wikipedia:
"Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; East New York and the cemeteries of Highland Park to the southeast; Brownsville to the south; and Bedford-Stuyvesant to the southwest.
The town was first founded by the Dutch as Boswijck during the Dutch colonization of the Americas in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the neighborhood became a community of German immigrants and their descendants. The 20th century saw an influx of Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans up to the 1980s. By the late 20th century, the neighborhood became predominantly Hispanic as another wave of immigrants arrived. Formerly Brooklyn's 18th Ward, the neighborhood was once an independent town and has undergone various territorial changes throughout its history.
Since 2000, the rise of real estate prices in nearby Manhattan has made Bushwick more attractive to younger professionals. In the wake of reduced crime rates citywide and a shortage of affordable housing in nearby neighborhoods such as Park Slope and Williamsburg, numerous young professionals and artists have moved into converted warehouse lofts, brownstones, limestone-brick townhouses, and other renovated buildings in Bushwick.
A flourishing artist community has existed in Bushwick for decades and has become more visible in the neighborhood. Dozens of art studios and galleries are scattered throughout the neighborhood. Several open studios programs are conducted that enable the public to visit artist studios and galleries, and several websites are devoted to promoting neighborhood art and events. Bushwick artists display their works in galleries and private spaces throughout the neighborhood. The borough's first and only trailer park, a 20-person art collective established by founder, Hayden Cummings and ZenoRadio's Baruch Herzfeld, was established within a former nut roasting factory for live/work spaces."
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