Bushwick

this should make all the hipster transplants living in bushwick on mommy and daddy's dime feel right at home.

yawn... who cares?

Yes, it's in the area's Industrial Business Zone. City calls this slice of Brooklyn East Williamsburg. We call it the Bushwick loft district (based on the authority of local old-timers). Some folks call it Morgantown.

Around 1977, the Landmarks Preservation Commission submitted a preliminary report that would have landmarked several VERY old wood frame residences situated on Goodwin Place, just down the block from 1090 Greene Avenue. These buildings probably belonged to the first generation of residences to be constructed in the area that we now refer to as Bushwick. Unfortunately, no sooner had the notice gone out than these buildings literally went up in smoke. This was a very major loss. While the 1977 blabkout related damage was mostly limited to the Broadway commercial strip - though the roof of the Bossert mansion on Bushwick Ave., which then functioned as a day care center, was fire damaged during the night of the blackout - during this decade the wholesale abandonment of housing in Bushwick - often accompanied by arson, was a constant and critical problem.