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Once Was a Wasteland

- upfromflames - Thursday, March 1st, 2007 : goo

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...just 20 years past.

Hope Gardens II Housing Project, built late 1980's.

on the search for images of Bushwick old and new.

back with more...

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upfromflames: 1st Mar 2007 - 11:47 GMT

Gates Ave between Wilson and Knickerbocker.

kricket: pure agoraphobia. too bad it's not bigger.

upfromflames: 2nd Mar 2007 - 02:21 GMT

Ok....bigger, and more desolate. On the way...

upfromflames: 2nd Mar 2007 - 02:28 GMT

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Copyright NYHP 1995
I want to thank the NY Housing Partnership for lending me these photos for the Up From Flames Exhibition at the Brooklyn Historical Society. This is a sample image from that batch. Some, of them, I can geo-locate, some I can't. If you know where this one is, let me know...

But if you have seen Bushwick today, you know how far it has come! You won't find anything like this today.

In its place are gleaming homes. Its only a matter of which home...

pierre: that's the Bushwick I remember

upfromflames: 4th Mar 2007 - 15:13 GMT

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Copyright NYHP 1995

upfromflames: 6th Mar 2007 - 02:56 GMT

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copyright NYHP 1993

upfromflames: 6th Mar 2007 - 02:57 GMT

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copyright NYHP 1993

ArtsyNani: 13th Mar 2007 - 02:13 GMT

That first photo makes me miss the neighborhood so much. I coached youth baseball teams in the adjacent baseball field since I was 15. I'm currently studying in MA and can't wait to get back. Unfortunately, like my parents who can't afford to live there anymore, I'll end up elsewhere.

upfromflames: 14th Mar 2007 - 02:08 GMT

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this is my daily walk, but it looks so different today.

upfromflames: 15th Mar 2007 - 23:31 GMT

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copyright NYHP 1995

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copyright NYHP 1995

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to those that called it home, I salute you.

anon (vader.hosystems.com): 28th Mar 2007 - 19:36 GMT

I grew up here....
Suydam st. Between wilson and knickerbocker...
Menehan between Irving and Wycoff...

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