Comments on: Bushwick Walking Tour

By: bushwicknative

bushwicknative — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:21:00 +0000

Rosemarie my grandfather lived at 104 Starr Street in the 1910-1920 time frame. I have been back to Bushwick to see the neighborhood but I know 104 is no longer there.

By: Armstrong

Armstrong — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:57:27 +0000

YES – RoseMarie, I currently live at 133 Starr Street, across the street from the park. Any memories of this block you’d like to share? were you here when there was a movie theater on Starr/Knickerbocker instead of the grocery store that’s there now?

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:38:19 +0000

RoseMarie: So glad you wrote in. I am both a student and teacher of local history, I’d like to hear more about your story. My 10th and 11th grade students would always gain by hearing a new voice from their community’s past. You can contact me at upfromflames@gmail.com.

By: RoseMarie

RoseMarie — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:54:19 +0000

I grew up on Starr Street I lived at 105 Starr st for at least 14 years of my life yes the same house that Maria Hernandez lived in and to be exact i had friends that lived in her apartment a nice italian family i lived on the second floor on the left . the neighborhood was beautiful when growning up in the 60′s. there was a pretezl factory across the street and we use to get fresh hot pretezels right out of the oven on the way to school . My grandmother and aunt only moved from the neighborhool 5 years ago my aunt had a resturant at 214 knickerbocker ave called Sonny and Annes. and they were also very close with the people who owned the store where Galante was shot. There a so many beautiful memories of Starr street that will be etched in my brain forever

By: matt

matt — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:42:56 +0000

All I know is I was walking to rehearsal, looked across Morgan Ave and saw a large pack of white people with a tour guide and just had to laugh to myself. I even called my friend to tell him I just saw people with binoculars and cameras touring around my block. It was hysterical to me. It’s a dirty, graffitti ridden neighborhood like a lot of others in Brooklyn that no one gave a shit about 6 years ago but all of a sudden its become the new hipster haven next to Williamsburg. Can’t wait for my rent to go up and more train riders because of the sudden hipness.

By: Jaybushwick

Jaybushwick — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:03:29 +0000

Agreed, Pete deserves to be on stage with Adam, and John as far as people who have vast arrays of knowledge and history and willingly share it with excitement. These preservationists will help Bushwick crawl before it can walk on it’s own. Ah, the day when the name Bushwick won’t have the same stigma.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:16:43 +0000

Pete, love the info you share!

By: jenblossom

jenblossom — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:54:03 +0000

Hey, Peter! You and I are already contacts on Flickr, but if you haven’t already, I’d like to invite you to join the BushwickBK photo pool as well. You’ve got some wonderful Bushwick shots that would be great additions to the pool.

By: Brooklyn Pete

Brooklyn Pete — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:38:53 +0000

Guess I am real late to post, but I just want to say that it was real nice to meet you guys on the walking tour, and I learned some things I never knew about the nabe too! very informative.

Thanks are due to John and Adam for conducting the tour, and relighting the Wick in a community thats been dim for to long.

Hopefully we can do this again sometime soon in Bushwick or maybe even another neighborhood.

Lori: The section my grandmother lives in is called Irving Sq. It contains the most diverse array of architecture in Bushwick and encompasses the area around it’s namesake park but also roughly fromBushwick Ave to Irving Ave in the confines of Gates Ave to Cooper St.

I keep a photo page on flickr where I am working on a photo essay of Bushwick. If you are interested check out the Bushwick set on that page of which I have many more photos that I hope to post soon.

http://flickr.com/photos/fortheloveofbrooklyn/

Thanks All,
-Peter

By: lori

lori — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:29:04 +0000

I had a great time on the walking tour – John and Adam thank you for insight regarding Bushwick – and Peter – wow!!

I want to do another one now – Peter had mentioned a section of Bushwick where he said his grandmother or mother lived (I apologize for not remembering exactly) he said it was a very beautiful area with lovely architecture – I think he said it was the area that the first walking tour covered.

Absolutely should visit the home of Maria Hernandez on a future tour (very thoughtful suggestion Armstrong). I think I remember the event of her death happening when I was in college. I remember reading about it in the paper and being deeply saddened – what a tragedy – all she wanted was a better place to live for herself, her family, her neighbors.