I’ve had the Bushwick area of Brooklyn on my list to explore for a while now, mainly because I’ve read it’s changing from a serious high crime hood to hipster paradise. So…field trip! Seems cheap rent is drawing in the hipsters and with that comes lots of cafes, thrift shops and health food stores. Now having said that it’s also filled with trash, crumbling buildings and abandoned factories making it the perfect setting for filming a street scene…think Kabul in Afghanistan. There’s no way you’d find me walking around this neighborhood at night…but, your street art? Fabulous!
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Bushwick…there is potential and I’ll certainly return one day…
…but perhaps a year or so from now to see how things are coming along.
Sounds scary, but your pictures are wonderful!
Oh my, that street art is AMAZING!!! Hopefully the artists will also put some of that talent, and good positive energy, into helping to rebuild and bring back their neighborhoods… Excellent photo shots Frissy. Thanks for sharing. XoXo
Isn’t everything turning hipster these days?
Great photos and I just love the B&W street art.
You said it, Virginia…Hope all that talent is used in a positive way.
Thanks for sharing.
Sent you something on email that looked cool coming up at the Lincoln Ctr.
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I’ll be back in NJ from 11/25-12/27 for 2 to 3 more surgeries. Holidays up north, Oh My! Where’s the xanax? LOL.
I hope this area will change for the better but don’t get the soul out.
Fabulous graffiti, amazing what some artist can do with a few ‘paint-spray-cans’.
…..and to think, you live in this incredible city, one day I like to roam the streets again, with you as out guide.
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….our guide…. 🙂
(I always tell Astrid I know her English. HA!) I keep thinking that any city that turns its slum neigborhoods into upscale living is doing something right. Look at the High Line! Did I tell you that last year my financial advisor put some of my stock into New York City real estate? I can hardly wait to see how it’s doing when I see him a couple weeks from now. I LOVE your city, and, yes, we need to walk your streets again!
The flamingo behind the bare branches of the tree? Priceless! What an interesting part of NY, cheap rents? I hope that in a year from now people who lived there all their life will still be able to afford living there.
Incredible street art! It blows my mind that these masterpieces are made with spray cans. I hope Bushwick continues to revitalize so we can take a day trip to check things out. 🙂 xoxo
Sure looks like an interesting place to wander around … in the day light hours! Some very awesome art & buildings.