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Monday, February 19th 2007
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author: hool : Toronto, ON
author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY
author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY
An open piece of sky in is a joy in any part of NYC. This little patch opens up under the Broadway EL at Melrose in Bushwick, onto a painful time mostly past: the era of the "missing tooth block".
For many years in Bushwick and other NYC neighborhoods, fires created blocks with varying empty gaps. Some gaps stretched half blocks or more. These empty lots, filled with ruins, trash, weeds, and garbage, were a reminder of what was once there, and how it was destroyed, and that you might be next...
Thankfully, since the 1980's an array...
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