Editor’s Note: Ten years ago, City Limits did an in-depth report on the trends shaping Bushwick. A decade later, and with a major rezoning looming, it’s time for another look. So City Limits’ reporting team, including our photographer Adi Talwar, spent the month of July reporting in Bushwick. The stories we’re producing can be read here. But Talwar’s photos tell their own story below.

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Scene outside Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues Subway Station

 

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On the corner of Melrose Street and Evergreen Avenue, Denizen Bushwick, a new rental development in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The luxury housing rental complex sits on part of the former Rheingold Brewery site.

 

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Corner of Jefferson Street and Wyckoff Avenue.

 

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195 Linden Street

 

Bushwick street

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Tree-lined Woodbine Street between Evergreen and Central Avenues in Bushwick.

 

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A view from the elevated Gates Avenue Subway Station. The construction site is bound by Palmetto Street, Broadway and Woodbine Street.

 

Bushwick dominoes

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A late July afternoon game of Dominos at Irving Square Park.

 

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Fernando Torres (68, facing camera) speaking with an old friend in front of 885 Knickerbocker Ave. Torres lived in Bushwick from 1969 to 2018. He moved to East New York due to rising cost of living in Bushwick.

 

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Cooper Street Community Garden

 

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Corner of Bushwick Avenue and Grove Street

 

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Intersection of Myrtle, Central and DeKalb Avenues