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    Up From Flames Walking Tour

    Last Wall, by Meryl Meisler Historian and teacher Adam J. Schwartz invites you to tour Bushwick's most infamous sites with him: "One of NYC's oldest communities, Bushwick is also a cross section of urban planning successes and failures. Municipal neglect during the 1960's and 70's led to the community's abandonment and devastation by arson. Since that time, everything has changed in our city. Today's Bushwick is the product of 30 years worth of carefully crafted public policy that laid the groundwork for ...

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    • BOS Retro: Bushwick IMPACT Garden Party
      Bushwick IMPACT mural, by Hrag Vartanian Sunday afternoon was the Bushwick Arts and Neighborhood Sustainability Forum, followed by the Bushwick IMPACT Garden Party. Despite the heat and general exhaustion at the end of a jam-packed weekend, both events were well attended by a variety of stake-holders: Arts in Bushwick volunteers, neighborhood residents, local artists, IMPACT parents and staff, and representatives from ...
    • Bushwick Open Studios Preview: Making an Impact
      Anna and I stopped by Bushwick Impact on Central Avenue last Sunday, to check out the collaborative efforts of Arts in Bushwick volunteers, The United Way of New York City, local children and families, BI staff and parent advocates, to create a community mural and safe garden play space for visitors to the center. The unveiling of the mural and ...
    • In Bushwick Schools, a Peace Dividend
      Bushwick High, by A Guy in Brooklyn I have been hard on Bushwick community organization Make the Road NY, and we do disagree on many important points. I think their point of view on certain economic issues is more characteristic of the beginning of last century than this one. That said, I appreciate their immigrant advocacy services -- the idea of ...
    • 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 Flames fame) led some 20-odd folks around, getting down to the Trinity Cemetery and up to Irving Square Park, going through the side streets along ...
    • Where's the Independence?
      Getting some air, by for the love of BROOKLYN The Bushwick Housing Independence Project -- another brainchild of Father Powis, former chief of St. Barbara's Catholic Church -- is an organization that helps people fight eviction from, and get repairs made to, their rent-regulated Bushwick apartments. NYT's David Gonzalez makes much sap of a serendipitously (for the reporter) placed portrait of ...
    • Bushwick Initiative: An (Irrelevant) Insult
      Residents finally moved into the gut-renovated Bushwick Initiative buildings across the street from me this weekend, four months after they were completed. Oh, the Bushwick Initiative? That's where the City uses your tax money to fix up someone else's private property for them, with a guarantee that all the people who lived there before can move back in afterward ...
    • Activists Work Hard to Deny Immigrants Jobs
      The net effect of making a big deal of consensual and peaceful but illegal business transactions is that such transactions are made more difficult to carry out and even those perfectly content to have entered into them are prevented from doing so in the future. It's my first thought when I see that, yet again, Make the Road by Walking has ...
    • Dude, Where's My Wine Bars?
      Evil gentrifiers eating their organical foods. Photo from NYT review of NE Kingdom José is at it again: bombast with little substance and scaremongery spluttering of downright lies. He's getting quite repetitious, too: "We rebuilt up on our backs, and now it's being sold to developers. We built this neighborhood, and now we have to fight for it." He's conflating "neighborhood" and ...
    • Right-Wing, Apathetic What?
      Know what I'm sick of lately? Activist types showing up here, getting all up in our faces about our part in advancing gentrification -- or at least that we don't weep enough about gentrification. The worst part is that for all their many hundreds of words on the subject, they can never seem to get any real ideas across. They're ...
    • Daily News On Gentrification; Also, I'm a Liar
      In today's Daily News, Metro section columnist Albor Ruiz covers gentrification in Bushwick with some insights from Wednesday's Make the Road by Walking rally. The article opinion piece doesn't really delve into anything new, rather it just regurgitates the same old "gentrification is bad" statement. The one good point that Ruiz makes is that for all their anti-gentrification bluster, Make ...
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