Id be happy to read any of your memories here too. And there was a butcher shop and fruit store on the corner of Eldert and Evergreen, where we always bought our Christmas Trees! Hi, Gentrification drives few low-income residents from their homes, writes Columbia University urban-planning professor Lance Freeman, who has studied the effects of neighborhood change in New York. Lived there with my grandparents in 1966 then we moved to Willoughby Ave between Knickerbocker, right by Knickerbocker Park & Wilson for about 9 years. Description. 127 Schaefer St. NEW CONSTRUCTION 6 FAMILY IN BUSHWICK. The building ceased to be used as a brewery at the dawn of Prohibition in 1920. Cal Snyder in Out of Fire and Valor. She believes it was on Noll Street between Wilson and Central. It has family services SCO Offices and the other Part of the former hospital is now a homeless shelter. 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). You'll find galleries and rock venues in former warehousesmany of which serve as legal canvases for street artistsand some of the borough's best nightlife. Actually, as a youngster, it creeped me out. Or the wading pool at Halsey Street Park? WENT TO PS 123 IN THE LATE 30 AND EARLY 40. Crime in general in Bushwick soared 50 percent during the first half of the seventies, with burglaries and robberies leading the way, increasing to nearly 8,500 per yearup from 4,500 in 1971. These were people who were determined to die in their community, and they just wanted to be able to do it with dignity. Elected that November, Koch did pay some attention to Bushwick. Tanya Frazier Cephus. I was born at Williamsburg General Hospital, and delivered by Dr. Salvatore Invidiada whose office was right up the street from our house on the corner of Bushwick and Stanhope (I think it was Stanhope). Broadway, which with Bushwick Avenue comprise the main arteries of Bushwick, are still attempting . Both are works of sculptor Pietro Montana. The Rent Zestimate for this home is $2,755/mo, which has increased by $2,755/mo in the last 30 days. My Dad taught me to ride a 2-wheeler in the schoolyard across the street too! @2019 - Forgotten New York. By Brian Sloan. Way back in 1969, when the City of New York demanded everyone take a blood test before they could get a marriage license, Dr. Davis did the test for my first husband and me. PK, I remember that old house from my childhood days. It consisted of modern day Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint. He always smoked a rich smelling pipe. Mr. Pinisi helped me improve my English writing, enough that I was accepted to attend Martin Luther High School in Maspeth. These were kids who just wanted to be kids, but they were facing overwhelming odds, says Meryl Meisler, who taught in Bushwick from 1981 to 1994. It instantly became part of the legend of 1970s New York: the night that the final indignity was visited upon the dead-broke, arson-wracked city. We went to St. John the Baptist way south of Broadway on Willoughby and Hart. It sounds like college radio from the 90s (some of the millennials there may know what that means). i remember the GIG CAFE on bushwick ave. remember the rko bushwick theatre and the lowes gates along broadway. You can catch a copy of her book here. Also remember Dr. Davis. Find the perfect place to live. Anyone can read what you share. The housing revival has helped jump-start some long-proposed projects, including redevelopment of the site, deserted since 1976, where Rheingold once brewed some 3.4 million gallons of beer a year. Perhaps because it didnt explode all at once, Bushwick remained largely beneath press notice, its problems unaddressed by the city. Textile mills that had provided jobs along the Bushwick/East Williamsburg border were starting to close. One worrying sign: lenders made a huge number of subprime mortgages in Bushwickmore than half of all mortgages in the area in 2005 and 2006which could mean lots of foreclosed and empty homes back on the market as the subprime crisis continues. There is luxury apartments there now sad to say. Broadway, which with Bushwick Avenue comprise the main arteries of Bushwick, are still attempting to recover from the destruction that happened in just one night. We went to KeyFood for groceries, Tomasellis Meat Market, and Romas Italian Salumeria. The Loews Gates. We popped out of the Jefferson Street subway on the L train and were greeted with nothing but warehouses and lights in the distance. After the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the town's name was anglicized to Bushwick. 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. On Broadway and Arion Placeis the hulk of the old Arion Mnnerchor, Bushwicks foremost German singing society. For these Sicilians, the tight-knit and deeply religious community of Bushwick was a welcoming and familiar destination. [WATCH] 10 Years After He Lived in a Tunnel - Mole People: Carlos Update, [VIDEO] Boomers Rejoice! After a decade of disorder, Bushwick had hit bottomwhole blocks were now abandoned and destroyed. Nor were firebugs the only problem. Highland Park was walking distance. I lived on Troutman between Bushwick and Evergreen. Every chance I got, I went to the Public Library on Bushwick and DeKalb. The number of Bushwick residents on welfare dropped from 37,000 in 1994 to about 17,000 in 2000 to under 12,000 today. . Loaded, limey oysters at Tong. Citywide, robberies spiked about 30% in 2022 over previous years. Oddly the fire escapes dont appearin pictures taken from the 1940s. It was a broiling summer night in the midst of the worst fiscal crisis in the citys history, when city youth programs had been shuttered and New York was jammed with young people with few prospects and at loose ends. thank you. Violenceespecially gang violenceflared up again. Doing a history project of Bushwick for urban dynamics. 145 (happy days) and later St. Leonards RC School (not happy days) just off Wilson Ave. You can never go home again, and Dr. Davis can never be my physician anymore (R.I.P. He lived with his mother in the brownstone across from the big mansion of Dr. Davis.He and I dated Ms. Puerto Rico of 1960. Next door to St. Barbaras, a stained-glass house number echoes the churchs detail. I want to know the name of a bar that was on the corner of Bushwick with a piano on the roof, THE NAME OF THE BAR WAS THE GIG IT WAS ON THE CORNER OF SCHAEFER ST & BUSHWICK AVE, Are there any pictures of the outside of The Gig of the piano-playing mannequin? I moved here Jan. 1955. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, . i practically lived in butters candy store . This mansionwas built for Thomas Bossert in 1898; Bossert went on to build Brooklyn Heights Bossert Hotel. It was a great place to be raised. In 1981, community leader Luis Garden Acosta called northern Brooklyn the "killing fields" for the number of teenagers killed in gang conflicts. Chris Parachini, a musician who moved from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to Williamsburg and now to Bushwick in search of cheap living quarters, recently opened Robertas, a trattoria on a fairly empty strip of Moore Street. He purchased land at the corner of Beaver and Belvidere Streets from Abraham and Anna Debevoise in 1869. 7 Photos. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. My sister was his patient. On the side streets along Broadwaynot so long ago, pockmarked with desolate lots where stray dogs wandered amid burned-out carsmore new homes arise and old ones get impressive face-lifts. Founded in 1638, chartered by Peter Stuyvesant in 1661, Bushwick was originally Boswijck. After discovering that the city also paid generous relocation costs if fires displaced them, the welfare tenants began setting their own government-subsidized apartments ablaze. 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? My old school, PS 24 is gone and, Bushwick Ave. has changed a bit. Bayside Hills [SpliceToday] "Not every fire that occurred in Bushwick was arson," said John Dereszewski, then the Community Board 4 district manager and later a neighborhood historian. I remeber Dr. Cort. Birdys is among a rash of new bars that have opened in this formerly remote section of Bushwick. the one with the piano man on the roof!!!!! There were 2 public school buildings one on the corner of Eldert and Central and the other on the corner of Eldert and Evergreen. My Dad was a constant photographer even using a movie camera to take films at times. Eligible Income: $64,492 - $156,130 . Tenant is responsible for Electricity and Gas . I remember Dr. Davis, My mother used to bring my little brother (now $9) to him. 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. Summer s they would open the school for neighbor kids. I remember the first time I saw that piano man after dark! I remeber the two movie houses and then there was the Empire and the real low down Monroe,where a dime could get you 21 cartoons a three stooges a serial thriller and a couple of movies. We moved out in 1964. I attended 14 holy marthyers and remember father multi. You could fill a whole tiny paper bag with them for like 10 cents! To collect on fire insurance, owners began torching their own empty buildings; gangs set fire to abandoned buildings, too, and then waited for the fire department to do the hard work of knocking down walls and floors, making valuable fixtures and copper wiring easier to steal. View Flyer. After Cook returned to the USAin the late 19-ohs, New York City seemed to fall squarely in the pro-Cook camp, as this celebratory arch emblazoned with the words We Believe In You attests. I still have some really great memories from P.S. Both areas had large PR populations, lots of street gangs, and a ton of arson. Often described by residents as a forgotten neighborhood, Bushwick was once a solid blue-collar community. I went to St. Joseph Patron on Suydam St with a Frank Basirico. One group of investors, for example, recently purchased an empty warehouse on Bushwicks fringes and revamped it into office space for artists and designers. I went to St. Barbaras School til it closed in 1973,after I went to St Joseph Patron, which unfortunately is closing its doors on June 14th. I also remember one of his pretty nurses (sorry for the sad news) was raped and killed way back when (late sixties, I think). Open in Google Maps. We lived at 141 Eldert Street between Central and Evergreen, but around 1957 a fire started in the house next door, 139 Eldert, and the fire and water damage destroyed half the block including our house. Within a few months, they sent me back to the 3rd grade. This misinformation about the Cook house has also been used on Brownstoner.com and its time somebody did some record checking so that historians of the future are not mislead. 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. Built 1931. I lived across the school at 607 Central Ave and then moving to Macdonough St and then to Long Island, Texas, Ohio and now Georgia. When I first came here to open a business, this was a shopping destination for all of Brooklyn, Todash says of the neighborhoods commercial district. All rights reserved. We hoped the lights were the restaurant because otherwise I had led everyone on a total boondoggle. 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 . It may look like an old-man dive bar, but the scene inside Birdys is super young. It is noteworthy that the cops are being pretty rough as well- kicking a gang members ass, threatening to kill Wally Savage, and tossing a bike. 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. New Yorks Theme Streets [SpliceToday] The video made by NBC, contains a lot of footage shot with a concealed camera "with a special night vision lens" [aw!]. I moved to the projects on Bushwick and Flushing Aves. Born in Wurttemberg in 1833, William Ulmer immigrated to New York in the 1850s to work with his two uncles, Henry Clausen Sr. and John F. Betz, in the brewing industry, eventually becoming the brewmaster for Clausens very successful New York firm. St. Barbaras was built in 1910. I used to play in the grand ballroom to the right f the entrance, Do you or anyone remember a BAR on a corner in the 50s & 60s that had a MICHANICAL PIANO PLAYER ON TOP OF ITS CANOPY ?