(718) 366-0586. I miss the many friends I had there for all those years. For a time, Cookresided in this mansion on Bushwick and Willoughby Avenues in Brooklyn. Im in my 70s and I teach at Concordia University in Wisconsin. On the commercial strip beneath the elevated J train tracks, 45 stores were set ablaze; a few days later, what became known as the "All Hands Fire" started in an abandoned factory, taking out 23 more buildings in the heart of the neighborhood. inside). 24 on Arion Pl, and Bushwick Ave. ..After I graduated from six grade, I went to seventh grade at 145 on Noll St. This vintage footage from the 1970s shows an incredible glimpse into old New York. Does anyone know which schools they were? 70 Bushwick Ave #3B, Brooklyn, NY 11211 is a 3 bed, 1 bath home. New York also rebuilt its police and fire forces and constructed a new precinct house in Bushwickmoves that helped reduce crime in the area during the early eighties. My Parents, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins used to go roller skating at Hillside Roller Rink! The community began trusting the police and helping them rid the area of the drug trade. carmine, do you have a sister cathy your grandparents lived next door to you? Dr. Davis was my doc as well. This house at 1080 Greene Avenueat Goodwin Place is of particular note, since its been allowed to deteriorate with many of its original features intact, preserved in amber, as it were. 2 photos. We would go there on weekends. I was proud to read about your achievements in city government, congrats, I lived in Willoughby and Evsrgreen a nd worked in Willoughby nursery home and remember that building and go to KFC. We went roller skating with my relatives at the Hillside Roller Rink. The most surprising thing is we now get people coming here to do events because they hear Bushwick is the hot neighborhood, says Lindamood. By 1998, Bushwick saw 1,500 fewer annual robberies, 1,000 fewer burglaries, and 675 fewer assaults than it had eight years earlier. After Cook returned to the USAin the late 19-ohs, New York City seemed to fall squarely in the pro-Cook camp, as this celebratory arch emblazoned with the words We Believe In You attests. Dad said wed get a color tv after they were perfected. I learned how to shoot pool, play poker,basket ball and many other things. The triangle across from the Ulmer/Cook mansion, Freedom Triangle, contains the first of two war memorials along Myrtle Avenue alongside the el structure. This report provides a summary of asthma indicators by neighborhood. If I find a photo of the Piano Man as I called him, Ill post back here again. Joe Basirico. Steven Malanga is senior editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Open Violations: 0. Would love to hear from you. It was demolished in the early 2000s. Is this the same place called Arian Mansion, that was a catering hall they used to have functions, parties and maybe even wedding receptions? The land was purchased from the Canarsie Indians in 1638 and officially chartered by Governor Peter Stuyvesant in 1660. There were jump rope contest winners would receive ticket to movie house on broadway. Nevertheless, her photos were filled with as much liveliness as the dance floor at Studio 54 (which the photographer also . And for the residents of Bushwick, for so long a bleak landscape, those fruits couldnt be sweeter. I was assigned to be assistant senior patrol leader in the spring of 62, but moved that summer to Long Island. I just wish to say, my old doctor used to live in that house for many years. Broadway, which with Bushwick Avenue comprise the main arteries of Bushwick, are still attempting to recover from the destruction that happened in just one night. Arion Places former namecan still be seen on an adjoining brick wall. ??? Bushwick boomed in the late 1800swhen German immigrants opened large breweries in the area, which were very profitable; brewers were able to build large, imposing mansions built in the exuberant, baroque Beaux Arts style of the day. He was Dr Donshick (spelling?). The Principal was Walter Shultz and the AP was a Mrs Mac Namara. Gothamist is a website about New York City news, arts, events and food, brought to you by New York Public Radio. He is the author of The New New Left, a collection of his City Journal essays. The 1890 Doerschuck House was built for a brewer, as were many mansions on Bushwick Avenue. PS133 & The Marboro Theater are among the great structures lost. By the mid-seventies, half of Bushwicks residents were on public assistance. ?? by Matt Coneybeare at 11:50 AM on March 5, 2016. READ FULL DESCRIPTION. Rather than rent the units, the owners are selling them as office condominiums for between $380,000 and $500,000. Went to St. Josephs school on suydam st lots of great memories in bushwick. I went to St. Joseph Patron on Suydam St with a Frank Basirico. My Dad taught me to ride a 2-wheeler in the schoolyard across the street too! I also remember one of his pretty nurses (sorry for the sad news) was raped and killed way back when (late sixties, I think). Asthma is a common lung disease and a leading cause of hospitalizations for children under 15 years old. I went to P.S. Dozens of abandoned buildings, piles of bricks, drug paraphernalia and trash could often be found block after block during the 1980s in Brooklyn's neighborhood of Bushwick. Street gangs used to have way cooler names like, say, the Devil's Rebels for instance. It was unsurprisingly . The transportation secretarys comments on the race of hardhat workers were as misleading as they were divisive. He is the co-author of Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit. The resulting flight of homeowners was later accelerated in the 1960s and 70s by "blockbusting," a tactic where real-estate speculators would buy a house, sell or rent it to a black family, then wait for panic to set in among the white neighbors that the area was about to "flip" raciallyat times helping matters along by posting business cards reading Houses wanted, cash waiting and Dont wait until its too late!. Yet the scenes of anarchic destruction, broadcast around the world, also brought the first faint signs of hope. John Hylan,NYC mayor from 1918 to 1925, lived at 959 Bushwick Avenue (the brownstone one over from the extreme right). There is also a nice video made by one of his devoted patients on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmlBxfSjWgc . On the side streets along Broadwaynot so long ago, pockmarked with desolate lots where stray dogs wandered amid burned-out carsmore new homes arise and old ones get impressive face-lifts. Graduated 6th grade in 1950 and sent to PS 145 on Noll St. Then Boys High. Or the wading pool at Halsey Street Park? . These days, when Morris Todash walks the streets of Bushwick, a two-square-mile neighborhood of 100,000 people in central Brooklyn, he likes what he sees. We think people want to bet on the future of this neighborhood by owning their own offices, says Joe Irving, a real-estate agent representing the building. "But when you dont maintain, electrical fires can occur. I hope it is still there and they have no plans to scratch if off because neighborhood history should include things that were important to people who lived there in every era, no just when the building was first built. [Full-of-it allert ;-)] Look at this NBC News reportage from about teenage gang The Devils Rebels that used to operate in the infamous83rd precinct, Brooklyn. We moved out in 1964, to East Meadow, where I still live. Those were great times as kid. If so, could you email me a picture. It contains 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Unlike today when kids have many public (or personal) pools, that was a HUGE treat for us! Eighteen minutes later, another lightning strike knocked out two additional power lines, leaving the system dangerously overloaded. Anybody else sometimes feels like Bushwick is getting too polished with all these new brunch places and luxurious condos being built? (It was restored to its lost grandeur about 5 years after this photo was taken in 2000), She appears to us to be wearing the crown of Victory, sword hilt forward and face transfigured. A big reason they balked was rising disorder. Also remember Dr. Davis. It is now as much the neighborhood of rats, strait dogs and burned out buildings, as it is of people. Like to hear from any of my childhood friends from Willoughby from 1966 to 1975. Bushwick New York Graffiti & Street Art. Indeed, Bushwick became one of New Yorks centers of drug dealing and abuse. The young men are wearing homemade body armor, suggesting they were on their way to a fight with a rival gang. Todash, whose insurance firm has served the neighborhood for more than 40 years, can hardly believe that this is the same Bushwick that became synonymous with urban chaos during the late 1960s and early 1970s, ravaged by fires, rioting, and looting until it resembled a war zone. The neighborhoods wooden row houses, tightly packed together and often sharing attics, proved particularly vulnerable; a fire would erupt in one building and swiftly spread, sometimes consuming half a block. Viewing NYC is owned and operated by, Vintage Film Show Bushwick Gangs and Brooklyn's 83rd Precinct in the 1970s, Take a Tour of 1976 New York City With This Vintage Super 8 Home Movie, Los Sures, a Documentary About Tough Life in Williamsburg in the Late 70s and 80s, NYPD Hands Out Safety Tip Sheets After Recent String of Central Park Muggings, Vintage Film Shows the Upper West Side's Street Life Back in March 1977, [WATCH] Testing Out $1400 AI Powered Electric Shoes Around NYC, [REPOST] Interactive Map Lets You See Vintage and Modern Photos of Greenwich Village Historic District Side-by-Side. I remember attending functions there.. I remember the And they pop pills- uppers and downers. Our super was an ex-con who would regale us with stories of the local drug trade that used to be here. I lived on Bushwick Ave.near Arion Pl., In order for me to go to 145, I had to go pass the brewery that was there at the time , I understand it is not there anymore. The William Ulmer Mansion has been rehabilitated and is now occupied after years of moribundity. And no part of the five boroughs was to become more associated with the blackout than the old north Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Donate today, Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations. There is a vegan option too and coffee well made! After the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the town's name was anglicized to Bushwick. Jo Ann I ,(Miguel Mike Hernandez) went to PS 24 on Arion and Beaver in the late 1940s and early 1950s. I also got a penny for a paper cup to get water at the empire. I went to 14 holy martyrs in the 40s and 50s. Sad to know its not there anymore. I normally dont open up, but you can email me at manny300m@hotmail.com to swap stories. There, a joint effort by the New York Housing Partnership and a leading community group, the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, has built 300 housing units. I believe that the bar was on Bushwick Ave near the corner of Kosciusko St. We lived across the street at 833 Bushwick Ave. Im trying to find an address so I can locate a picture to add the book. I remember you well you lived on dekalb ave? More detailed message would go here to provide context for the user and how to proceed. By the 1830s, Bushwick had begun to lose its rural character. I went to 14 holy martyrs in the 40s and 50s. Mr. Schiavone, I remember that piano player too, and have also been trying to find a photo of it. Anybody remembers the El Quintos, ,Latin Gents, Royal counts they covered Myrtle Ave., White , Broadway, Scholes St. ,and up and down Bushwick Ave., headquartered at the Bottom, More St. and Bushwick Ave? Dutch, Swedish, and Norwegian settlers first decamped in the vicinity in about 1640, and by 1660 had formed Boswijck (Town of Woods). This is how the night starts for The Devils Rebels- with heavy drinking. I had recurring nightmares of a train chasing me in my home until a psychologist figured out it was from the visits to the doctor and the sight of the El trains above. What kind of jackass makes the decision to take a wrecking ball to such a grand piece of architecture and history? The mansion had previously been occupied by brewer Ulmer, whose nearby brewery complex on Beaver and Belvidere Streets has recently been landmarked by the city Landmaks Preservation Commission. It should not be missed if youre in Bushwick. Morris Todash showed up at his small storefront to assess the damage and noticed that the furniture outlet next door, protected by iron gates, remained undamaged. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, . Riding home in the car with my Parents after visiting relatives, we always passed that. Crime in general in Bushwick soared 50 percent during the first half of the seventies, with burglaries and robberies leading the way, increasing to nearly 8,500 per yearup from 4,500 in 1971. They were handsome boys who were sweet to me, but very tough street kids. But Bushwick was experiencing a kind of slow-motion rioting, ultimately just as destructive, which lasted through Lindsays administration and that of his successor, Abe Beame. We went to KeyFood for groceries, Tomasellis Meat Market, and Romas Italian Salumeria. Himrod was the name of its first minister. i was shown as a child mayor hylans house,dr fredrick cooks mansion,and remember the many many churches lining bushwick ave. It contains programs for family care, Community Board No. Bushwicks brand of the crack trade was among Gothams most vicious. All Skate, Couples Leonard Scaturro was a boarder in my grandparents home in 1925, Leonard Scaturro was 21, They came thru Ellis Island together. When I first came here to open a business, this was a shopping destination for all of Brooklyn, Todash says of the neighborhoods commercial district. Zestimate Home Value: $400,200. After the breweries closed or moved, starting in the 50s and continuing into the 70s when all were gone, Bushwick suffered a slow decline, culminating in July 1977 when, during a blackout, Bushwick , in effect, was destroyed by arson and looting. 7 Photos. Many of its newest residents are young, single whites, but the neighborhood remains largely Hispanic. Great fun and many hours for a dime.The Monroe was right across the street from the RKO. Those include Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Cypress Hill, and East New York. we shopped at scaturros market, russos produce,bargaintown, deans , johns bargain store, woolworths,all along broadway baptised at st. john the bapist r.c. Brooklyn was very rough in those days and we moved out to the Rockaways in Queens. This mansionwas built for Thomas Bossert in 1898; Bossert went on to build Brooklyn Heights Bossert Hotel. My Dad was a constant photographer even using a movie camera to take films at times. Details ; Units; Map; Photos; Who Should Apply; How to Apply ; Details. 670 Bushwick Avenue was not the Ulmer mansion. Then I passed one day and it was being torn down. Iguess if he did stop every time a kid raised a hand, hed never get done! Loaded, limey oysters at Tong. The neighborhood had originally been settled by German and Italian immigrants in the 19th century, and remained so well into the 20th; a handful of mansions along Bushwick Avenue were home to the owners of Bushwicks many breweries, while to the east stretched block after block of small apartment buildings and two-family houses. Also remember the Little Sisters of the Poor convent and old age home on Bushwick and DeKalb. The police recognized that the people who knew the most about what was going on were Bushwicks citizens, and they turned to us for information and help, recalls Reverend Michael Clarke of Bushwicks Global Ministries in Christ Church. 18, when teachers were teachers. Do you have Dittenhoefers in you family tree? 55) : 6 Additionally, 70% of high school students in Bushwick graduate on time, lower than the citywide average of 75% of students. An estimated 500 Bushwick buildings ended up vacant in this way. Particularly in the central core of Bushwick, where you had so much wood-framed housingand housing where you had those common cocklofts on the roof, where if you had a fire start in one house, if theres any wind it could spread literally down the whole block.". Toting a camera during her teaching years, Meisler captured some of the impressions that the collapsing neighborhood made on local children an abandoned playground overgrown with weeds, a view from a classroom of ruined buildings and empty lots. The video made by NBC, contains a lot of footage shot with a concealed camera "with a special night vision lens" [aw!]. Poolside when the Big Bopper and Frankie Valens died in a plane crash. Next door to St. Barbaras, a stained-glass house number echoes the churchs detail. Dear Bert Pennington, sorry I just got back to this site after 2/3 years. Born in Bavaria, Anton Vigelius immigrated to Brooklyn in 1840 at the age of 18 and was involved in the produce business prior to opening the brewery. Murphy's $53 billion budget: More property tax relief, spending on schools, mental health. Of all Bushwick streets,Linden Street is particularly gracious. When the lights went out, hundreds of people began breaking into stores along Broadway, the southern boundary separating Bushwick from Bedford-Stuyvesant, pulling down security gates, smashing windows, hauling off furniture, TVs, whatever they could carry. 4 (Bushwick) District Offices and other programs for the community. You can never go home again, and Dr. Davis can never be my physician anymore (R.I.P. When D-Stroy turned the Bushwick Bomb Squad into the Arsonists after that harrowing incident in Knickerbocker Park, it was a move that mirrored old school pioneer Afrika Bambaataa's mission to end gang violence in the South Bronx in the late '70s with the formation of the Universal Zulu Nation. Inside, there is a bouncer who checks IDs, even for those clearly above age 30. Sketching Henderson Place [SpliceToday] NBC News used a hidden night-camera to capture gang activity by the Devils Rebels in Bushwick, along with the police attempting to stop it. So total was the devastation that even as New York began rebounding in the mid-1990s, Bushwick remained largely untouched by gentrification. Not far away, Kevin Lindamood, a transplanted Virginian, has transformed empty factory floors into OfficeOpsa venue featuring a rehearsal space for arts groups, video production facilities, and room for large events. Brooklyn 63.8. Did anyone live near Stockholm street? Then during the late 60s, early 70s, I think it became a residence (while the nuns were still there) for juveniles. Lots of nice memories of school mates and nuns and priests like Father Multz, and Father Yander. Thank you to all our donors that continue to support Forgotten NY. On the most recent surveys circulated by the city's Department of Education, at least 90 percent of parents at every primary and middle school in . Too bad no one with similar aspirations of serving people instead of displacing them resides there now. There is currently 1 unit listed for rent at 70 Weirfield Street #1.1, Brooklyn, NY 11221, US. Thank you. Only, organ playing. New York of the 1970s and early '80s was a gritty place of stunning contrasts. His office in that building from the 60s was always packed on both sides. I remember that! Meyer and Hannah Annie Bressler. I quickly figured out this wasnt really Williamsburg.. Surveying the devastation a few days after the riot, a priest told his congregation: We are without God now.. This chaos broke out just as New York was rocked by a deep fiscal crisis, largely the product of Lindsays wild overspending on social welfare. Flecks of its originalred-and gold paint job are still there on the bay window. Ellen, Wow yes I always remember that and never forgot it, that going back 64 years ago, I lived on Eldert Street, Hi Gina.. what class were you in .. in the first grade in at P.S 274.. was your teachers name Ms. Salvatore? The Reliabilt vinyl basement hopper window is manufactured with a heavy duty extruded welded vinyl sash and main frame. It also describes housing and neighborhood characteristics that can make asthma worse. Please advise. How The 1977 Blackout Was Bushwick's Grimmest Moment, We rely on your support to make local news available to all, To guard against robberies, NYPD tells businesses to require customers to unmask, Rent-stabilized Harlem tenants sue after 'Frankenstein' renovations carve up apartments, State investigation of babys death at Mount Sinai NICU underway, 'A lot to be desired': Grand Central Madison train service causes LIRR commuter headaches, NJ Gov. It also has a Michelin star. The 20-something crowd at Birdy's was buzzing about one retro touch in particular: drink prices. His name should always be associated with that building. Lindsay won kudosand eventually a spot on a national commission on racefor keeping a lid on racial tensions in New York, which didnt experience the kind of cataclysmic riots that tore apart Watts in 1965 and Memphis, Newark, and Detroit in 1967. In Bushwick, newly empowered cops blocked off drug-dealer-ruled streets with barriers and conducted sweeps of a neighborhood zone called the Well (since buyers could openly purchase an unending supply of drugs there). We said why but he knew right away. This misinformation about the Cook house has also been used on Brownstoner.com and its time somebody did some record checking so that historians of the future are not mislead. All lit up with neon lights that made it look like he was swaying from side to side while playing that piano. Cops broke that one up I lived four hou ses down from ps85. . Learn how your comment data is processed. I remember Cypress Pool, particularly the iron filings that fell from the El. Remembering Jackie Robinson [SpliceToday]. When the Depression hit in the 1930s and banks began failing left and right, the federal government stepped in with the Home Owners Loan Corporation, which offered cheap loans for properties that it deemed unlikely to fall into foreclosure. (When I went past again in 2010, it was again occupied!). Our doctor was as dedicated and also practiced out of his home in Brooklyn heights He was known as the $5 doctor who also did not charge those who couldnt afford it Dr. Salvatore Altcheck was his name. Was very sorry to find out that my home along with Ps85 had been demolished. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act made it easier for southern Europeans to immigrate to America. New York City 61.5. Wonderful doctor wont be forgotten. via The Bowery Boys. There was a candy store right across the street. Finally, though, Bushwick burst into national headlines. After the looting, no one wanted to come here any more.. Copyright On July 13th, 1977, at 8:37 p.m., a bolt of lightning struck an electrical substation in Buchanan, New York, that was responsible for taking the high-voltage power produced at the Indian Point . That and when they would come around and open up the fire hydrants on a hot day! Even parts of Ridgewood and Glendale are going downhill. Peter Pabn for The New York Times. The last brewery in Bushwick closed in 1976. 4 Floors. The city knocked down vacant buildings, cleared lots, and auctioned them off cheaply to local residents. You can get a Budweiser and a shot for $6, a woman in a leather jacket said to her friend. So, here are some images from their Class of '71, '72 and '73 yearbooks. Bushwick: Directed by Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion. 3.5 (5) 52 Units. In 2019, there were an estimated 127,550 people in Bushwick, of which 4.2% of the population identified as Asian, 15.3% identified as Black, 56.3% identified as Hispanic, and 20.6% identified as white. The crenellation on the mansard roof (LEFT) has been allowed to remain, while these town houses have their original iron fences, whichhavebeen maintained through the decades. Also went to the Public Library on Bushwick and DeKalb. Murders dropped from 1990s 77 to 12 in 1998. I used to play in the grand ballroom to the right f the entrance, Do you or anyone remember a BAR on a corner in the 50s & 60s that had a MICHANICAL PIANO PLAYER ON TOP OF ITS CANOPY ? Bushwick was Brooklyn's south Bronx. By Brian Sloan. Mom thought St. Barbaras on Bushwick was too pretty and would be too much of a distraction during Sunday mass. After the breweries closed or moved,starting in the 50s and continuing into the 70s when all were gone, Bushwick suffered a slow decline, culminating in July 1977 when, during a blackout, Bushwick , in effect, was destroyed by arson and looting. 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