Walking Tour: Bushwick: Old and New

by calendar on March 23, 2008

When
April 13, 2008   11:00 am   
Where
Meet at Myrtle Av. and Broadway
Brooklyn
Cost
$15; $12 for members of the Municipal Art Society
More Info
Municipal Art Society

Like a pheonix rising from the ashes of the fires and abandonment following the 1977 black-out, this former Dutch then German settlement is now multi-ethnic, with thousands of new low-income housing units as well as former commercial buildings converted to artists' lofts. View an old brewery, some beer baron mansions, the new Rheingold Gardens residences and magnificent churches, including the restored St. Barbara's. Leader: Joe Svehlak, urban historian.