Pontiac, by El Cigano

If you haven’t checked out the BushwickBK Flickr pool lately, you’re missing some great photography — street art, architecture, candid scenes, and even constellations. Do you have neighborhood photos to share as well? Send them to our Flickr pool and up your audience.

Found this awesome photo of elevated tracks on flickr, but I can’t figure out exactly where it might be. Most of the storefronts are obscured by the track’s pillars and contrasted out, and where in Bushwick under the M or JMZ does the road curve like that? Any ideas?

Here’s some stuff I have inklings and semi-confirmation on:

*A huge warehouse at Knickerbocker and Flushing is right now under renovation into a Bedford Minimall-like retail and art center. The developer has not yet decided on a final layout. A snippet of one possibility is above.

*Two upscale/organic grocery operators are fighting over space at the Wyckoff Exchange. One wants two “bays” of the five available, the other wants three — the third would be so there is room for a wine shop.

*Also at the Wyckoff Exchange, it’s rumored that a rock-climbing gym was sniffing around looking for space — but they may have settled on an armory in Park Slope. Which is fine with me. Can you just imagine the insufferable frat douchebags invading our sensitive arty hipster hub? (Cuz you know they already are).

*The vacant Scaturro block on Knickerbocker and DeKalb is slated to become lofts and nice ground floor retail.

*A creperie and café is in the pipeline for Bushwick within the year, if all goes to plan.

*Jane’s bar now has its building permits, and serious plumbing work is underway. Scheduled opening is pushed back to September.

The old header was bleak and depressing. I’m tired of everything that represents Bushwick online being photos of warehouses and graffiti and barbed wire and trash. Let’s show off some of our truly stunning architectural specimens, and on a flawless day in the neighborhood!

photo by Hrag Vartanian

This pop art grafitto is just before the Bogart L entrance. Haha, vote. Hey, it made a difference all those other times!

Begging to be a bar.

I went on a stroll through the hood this weekend, and as I walked down Cypress from Palmetto to Troutman, I took photos of some interesting carriage houses and garages.

Interesting but scary.

Nothing special, but has a large, mature grape arbor on top.

Hard to tell from the photo, but the facade is brick and has a slate roof.

I was sweeping up today in front of the house and found this very amusing.

from brooklyn_instrument_ museum’s flickr page

I think this is a school, on Knickerbocker between Menahan and Grove. The photographer artfully omitted the projects just across the street from the buildings beyond. This is also right across the street from the All Hands Fire in 1977. You can see the school in this photo, surrounded by buildings long gone.

BushwickBK regular Armstrong sends us a shot of María Hernández Park in the foggy late fall gloom.

They’ve been cleaning the remains of this house out for about 6 months now. Not sure what the deal is with the delays. In that time they have totally renovated the burned-out house next door.