Bushwick In Brooklyn, NY Walking Tour

Filming Dates: Tuesday September 10th and Friday September 13th, 2024

I walked around a couple of streets in Bushwick, Brooklyn to film around the street art hotspots, increasingly hip and edgy areas, hipster community, working class community, art studios and cafes, and event venues I got to see, that are mostly busy during nightlife with people having parties, comedy nights, and some fun nights. This neighborhood is actually cool despite that I like to take a stroll walking around to see street art and different types of people in one community that makes a living there. Bushwick is located next to other Brooklyn neighborhoods like Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill, Cypress Hills, and next to both Ridgewood and Maspeth in Queens. Bushwick shares Myrtle Avenue with Ridgewood, Queens as a long busy street with several buses and some trains connecting into one transit junction.

Bushwick has a large Puerto Rican population along with other latinos like Colombians, Dominicans, Mexicans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, Venezuelans etc. Some Blacks also live in Bushwick mostly in Broadway and bordering with Bedford-Stuyvesant. The white hipsters are moving to Bushwick in increasingly numbers along with some Asians, some Blacks, and more Hispanics/Latinos coming in from other communities. Hipsters have been making Bushwick another cool hip neighborhood after its next door neighbor Williamsburg, but more hip into nightlife, fashion clothing, hip cafes and street art. There were old warehouses that got converted into art studios, music venues, restaurants, and hip-style businesses in recent years making Bushwick gentrify very often. Maria Hernandez Park is a pretty good park to visit on Knickerbocker Ave, even though a tragic story of Maria Hernandez happened with her getting shot and killed at her home. So the park was named after Maria as an honor and a tribute dedicating to her. Bushwick used to be a bad neighborhood with high crime, crack epidemic, some abandoned buildings in ruins, poverty, and gang violence. Now, it's mostly gentrified with new people moving in, new businesses, hip cafes, street art, mostly safe with less crime, a thriving community, and recent rent rising. Bushwick reminds me of Sunset Park with similar history and similar demographics of people that I would usually see, although both neighborhoods are experiencing the same urban culture of living. Ridgewood as Bushwick's next door neighborhood plays a role as a safer community and has similar history like Bushwick. Part 2 for Bushwick will be out after this video!