Bushwick Goes National
Like Williamsburg before it, the Bushwick brand is spreading beyond New York City’s borders. This weekend, The Philadelphia Inquirer brought news of the gritty but increasingly arty nabe to its readers in the City of Brotherly Love. “Over the last few years, the two-square-mile Brooklyn neighborhood has been attracting visionaries outpriced by neighboring Williamsburg or…
Like Williamsburg before it, the Bushwick brand is spreading beyond New York City’s borders. This weekend, The Philadelphia Inquirer brought news of the gritty but increasingly arty nabe to its readers in the City of Brotherly Love. “Over the last few years, the two-square-mile Brooklyn neighborhood has been attracting visionaries outpriced by neighboring Williamsburg or disillusioned by Chelsea’s artiste scene,” writes the paper. “Studios, galleries and spaces that defy categorization are appearing in former bodegas, 99-cent stores, and other unglamorous structures.” The ‘Wick manages to maintain its street cred with a killer quotation from Laura Braslow of non-profit Arts in Bushwick: “The Bushwick art scene is not about sipping wine and looking at white walls,” she said. A few of the recommended galleries include English Kills, Ad Hoc and Factory Fresh.
Art Grows in Bushwick [Philadelphia Inquirer]
You mean, SixYears, the way John Kerry was accused of being “French”?
Yes, Denton, I remember when the museums — and Central Park Zoo — were free.
When I was a kid, New York was my brother’s and my living room, and for the price of bus or subway fare (15 cents!), we could visit most anywhere.
No doubt about it, for all its gloss, the city’s civic life has coarsened, especially for children.
Not too long ago, I watched three kids, about 13- or 14- years old, walk into the Metropolitan Museum. (By their dress and color, they didn’t look like Upper East Siders.) They saw the “voluntary” contribution sign, turned on their heels, and walked out. (I was looking down over the balcony at the time, too far to steer them back.)
To this day I wonder if we lost an artist or art historian that very moment.
NOP
Winelover, I guess you don’t eat at restaurants, right? After all, you don’t want to support that illegal economy. And who do you think is building all your precious condos? Who is watching your kid? Who cleans your house? (I’m going out on a limb here and guessing it isn’t you.)And why did your family come here again? Hopefully, you are not the sum total of all of their striving, because that would be sad.
Anyways, back to what I see as the real meat of this thread before scary real estate tangent guy took off: Philadelphia vs. New York.
As a native of the former, I have to say that the way Philadelphians typically handle having New York on their doorstep is to pretend it doesn’t exist. I think there is still some bitterness that despite being twice the size of Boston (I think?) and much closer, Boston gets more New York acknowledgment than its southern cousin.
Don’t believe me? Go to Philadelphia. Tell someone you’re from New York. Watch them blink once, look away, and change the subject.
Oh, whoops, sorry — it’s on Bainbridge in between Malcolm X and whatever is the next avenue headed deeper into Brooklyn. I found it on Trulia.
NOP –
A good highball will run you like 12 bucks depending on your scotch/bourbon choice, these days. Yikes! 1200%+ inflation in 30 years.
I am kinda glad I missed NYC in the 70s (what with only even existing for the last three years of them), but I’m also kinda sorry that I never got to see the city at that point – it’s appealing in a scary kind of way.
so where is that one???
DIBS – We know it’s not on the most lovely block, yes.
Bainbridge is actually really pretty right up to Malcolm X and then … not so much.
Mostly we just think the idea of buying a boarded up shell and then turning the inside into something lavish is kind of funny. 🙂
cw…do you know where that place is??? That, and the fact that its next to a Fedders would determine resale value but certainly anything would be worth more than $400k if it was finished. I actually like the clapboard houses.
Watch out, MrsCWB! Back in the 1790s, French immigrants to the U.S. were considered dangerous subversives (what with that revolution and all), like Jews and Catholics in later years and I suppose Muslims today. The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were passed with French immigrants in mind, and Thomas Jefferson was often accused of being too sympathetic to the French.
Watch out, MrsCWB! Back in the 1790s, French immigrants to the U.S. were considered dangerous subversives (what with that revolution and all), like Jews and Catholics in later years and I suppose Muslims today. The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were passed with French immigrants in mind, and Thomas Jefferson was often accused of being too sympathetic to the French.