Central and Bleeker (early 60's) There are so many powerful words on citynoise to remind of us days gone by in Bushwick. What we need is photos! They are great to share with each other, and to help teachers like me show Bushwick kids today what came before them. Help me, help yourselves, and help the community remember. I'll start here, by a photo sent to me by a reader. Hope Dave does not mind the use! If you need any help with posting the photos, just contact the editors. They'll be happy to help!

Rust and Remembrance: Walking Bushwick's Fringe

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

Bushwick has a sleepier southern side. Come walk its fringes. The historic houses lining these leafy streets date from a late 19th century real estate boom. We'll be taking in Bushwick’s more distant past, including the Irving Square Park area, as well as Trinity Cemetery, where almost every gravestone is cast from metal. This eye-opening stroll combines topography, economics, and history. A major focus is to discuss the need for historic preservation in this rapidly changing community. Saturday, May 17, 1 pm - 3 pm Rust and Remebrance: Bushwick's Southern End with Adam Schwartz *Meet at the NE corner of Chauncey Street and Broadway,...

Bushwick Botanica

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

As a community in constant transformation, Bushwick brings together man diverse cultural elements into one heady mix. The contrast is at its most exotic and unfamiliar in Botanicas. Botanicas are generally religious supply shops where you can buy items for use in the practice of Santeria. The name comes from the dried and fresh herbs sold for their medicinal and spiritual properties But there is so much more for available here for sale, in a syncretistic swirl that seems to unite every cultural tradition under the sun. Whats the most popular item? Candles! There’s one for every situation, bad and good. People buy...

English Kills

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

Deep in the forgotten recesses of Brooklyn's East Williamsburg Industrial Park, you can find English Kills. Its once thriving waters connected the village Bushwick to the East River, shipping out agricultural produce to New York’s burgeoning population. Later, English Kills became part of the industrial waterway network that helped this area surge in the late 19th and early 20th century as a center of manufacturing. Now, (lined by trash haulers and manufacturers), it exists as a fetid, stagnant tributary to one of the nation’s dirtiest waterways, Newtown Creek. But beyond all those faces and phases, there is a ghostly beauty to be...

Bushwick: History in the Making

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

Unless you are an artist, its a difficult thing to capture the creative process as it is happening. Well now, here is your chance! If you can make it to Bushwick, Brooklyn, this summer, you can capture the creative process unfurled across 400 feet of concrete wall, at the corner of Knickerbocker and Woodbine. That's where this work takes shape every weekday. I think its best to let the design team have the words, so I've just illustrated with my own photos. I'll try to keep up with the work as it proceeds over the next month. Hope you can see...