Woodrow Wilson was a horrendous president. He set the precedent for lying the country into war. He tossed critics and antiwar protesters into prison during that war he got elected to keep the US out of. Under his presidency, the income tax was begun, the Federal Reserve created, and Prohibition enacted. Throughout the country, the hysterical anti-German sentiment unleashed during and encouraged by the Wilson administration caused ethnic Germans to cower and paper over their heritage — lubing the slope for FDR to intern Japanese-Americans a generation later. In Bushwick, that manifested itself in the renaming of Hamburg Avenue, between Central and Knickerbocker, to Wilson Avenue, no doubt further feeding the megalomania of the authoritarian occupant of the White House.

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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?

Some Williamsburg residents are attempting to boycott Northside Car Service after a driver sped away from an accident he caused — a last straw for some, and just one of several ongoing problems the community has with the company. I’d like to suggest an alternative, for those observing the boycott, and for those in Bushwick who aren’t yet familiar: Bushwick Car Service.

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