Forgotten Bushwick
Forgotten NY had an afternoon to kill recently and decided to head out to Bushwick to check out the architecture. In addition to this turn-of-the-century building that originally housed the Hamburg Savings Bank (Bushwick was very German back then), FNY takes a close look at PS 116 at 515 Knickerbocker Avenue, lamenting the fact that…
Forgotten NY had an afternoon to kill recently and decided to head out to Bushwick to check out the architecture. In addition to this turn-of-the-century building that originally housed the Hamburg Savings Bank (Bushwick was very German back then), FNY takes a close look at PS 116 at 515 Knickerbocker Avenue, lamenting the fact that it is not one of the 22 public schools in the city to have received landmark status. Check it out. It’s a real beauty.
Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenues [Forgotten NY] GMAP
my family has lived there for generations and Ridgewood is still considered the border between Brooklyn and QUEENS
Isn’t this the same thing happening to Bushwick becoming East Williamsburg? Wonder what they will call the area below East Williamsburg if it gentrifies.
“is this the only former German neighborhood in Brooklyn?”
FWIW, when I first moved to Brooklyn in 1970 Ridgewood (also German in origin) was considered to be split between Brooklyn and Queens.By the mid-70s it was ALL in Queens–something I never understood.
nice to see my old nabe featured.
Are those mansion the ones on Bushwick Avenue?
I wonder if this neighborhood will ever become better.
Is this the only former German neighborhood in Brooklyn?
here’s another good FNY piece about a former RKO theater that’s now a high school:
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/RKO%20Bushwick/RKO.html
That school is landmarked.