Up From Flames: A Tour of Bushwick’s Nadir

The tour begins — see more photos from the tour>>

Bushwick was graced with another walking tour from the good folks at the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, and as usual I nearly missed it. I…

Halsey J Station Gets Colored Glass Love

One of the first times I took the J train out to the Halsey station, one of the many reasons I felt like I had stepped off the map was the station itself. All the stations prior to it…

Bushwick Walking Tour: The SoBu Edition

Chauncey Street balcony houses. See more from this set>>

I went on the latest BCUE walking tour of Bushwick, this time focusing on the southern tip of the neighborhood. Bushwick Specialist Adam Schwartz (of Up From…

Bushwick Walking Tour

‘Twas an exhausting weekend, in which we, you know, actually did stuff instead of lying face-down in a pool of vomit, as on most weekends. No, this weekend we were downright productive! Saturday we dragged ourselves out to the…

Bushwick Real Estate Roundup 7/20/2007

$650,000 | 3-family | 49 & 51 Linden Street | map
These two houses have been for sale for the past year, I don’t know what’s wrong with them but they have great terra cotta and brick…

The Big Takeover

Sarah Kramer/Brooklyn Paper

On the Map Dept: I live on Eldert Street, a 6 block long stretch on the south side of the Shwick (let’s get all the kids to start calling it that!). My end of the block…