Wednesday Links
Fire Reveals Fragility of New York’s Travel Network [NY Times] 58.6% of Brooklynites Overweight or Obese [NY Times] Upscale Retail Coming to Bushwick [NY Times] City to Clean Up Trash in Prospect Park [NY Daily News]
Fire Reveals Fragility of New York’s Travel Network [NY Times]
58.6% of Brooklynites Overweight or Obese [NY Times]
Upscale Retail Coming to Bushwick [NY Times]
City to Clean Up Trash in Prospect Park [NY Daily News]
Wacky Tycoon Hijacks Bay Ridge Blog [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by pstardesign.
I need to visit Ditmas Park and also Sunset Park.
Mopar, yes it is! Of course you’d like the rest of the area as well – maybe a Victorian is in your future…
Great picture! Where’s the credit?
Boerumite, isn’t that interesting? That despite the recesssion, retail is ON FIRE in those areas you mention? Course we’ll see where things go.
A lot of people have predicted that fewer newcomers will be moving into these areas, now that they can get places for slightly cheaper in Williamsburg, etc. (Supposedly.) (With condos crashing!) It’s true I do know a lot of young people who have recently moved into Manhattan.
But the hipster hordes certainly seem to still moving into Bushwick in large numbers. There’s been a noticeable increase in the non-loft areas since one year ago, mostly starting about three months ago. And tons and tons of articles in the media about how “hip” Bushwick is, with arts and lofts and so on.
I’ve also noticed what seems to be a lot of people buying houses in Bed Stuy.
> Sixyears, that wall looks amazing. Is it worth a visit?
I’m not sixyears, but the answer – well, my answer at least – is a resounding YES.
I take a long term observation on what ethnic groups populate neighborhoods – frankly its required across the decades in all parts of NY. The amazing thing is that there seems to be a lack of acknowledgement that retail is ON FIRE in commercial aves in Bushwick, east Williamsburg, Bedstuy, etc.
I will be so sad if Bushwick turns into another Williamsburg, with a huge and visible hipster population and a few of the old guard hanging on and a lot of resentment. Right now it’s really great. The Mexican community and retail along Wyckoff is really thriving. BTW, they are also recent arrivals, just as recent as the hipsters. The Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have been there longer, since the 1970s, when the displaced the Italians. (There are a few of them hanging on too. Check out the espresso bar on the corner of Harmon and Wykcoff — massive smoke fest in there. Hilarious.)
of course to NYTimes and plenty of other media hispanics and other groups do not exist. Look what they write about Smith St (and plenty of newbies to neighborhood believe) ..
that it was boarded up, vacant storefronts, blah, blah, blah.
It was fairly busy commercial street that catered to day to day needs of many hispanic and other working class folks.
Yes, quiet at night and all the rolldown gates pulled down because business almost all daytime.
Was not full of restaurant, boutiques and bars that cater to different demographic. So until they invaded, was invisible.
mopar- I agree.