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'In Bushwick, too many tenants face harassment from landlords who want to push them out, renovate their apartments, and double the rent.'
William Alatriste for the City Council
Councilman Reynoso, seen here in a file photo, launched with colleague Rafael Espinal a process called the Bushwick Community Plan.
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Irving Street In Bushwick, a neighborhood that has already been changed by Brooklyn's development dynamics.
Adi Talwar
At the summit held at the Ridgewood Bushwick Youth Center. Unlike some other neighborhoods, the Bushwick process has some pre-existing support. But that doesn't mean the math or market are any easier to deal with.
Adi Talwar
A few of the community advocates involved in Bushwick's rezoning discussion: from left to right, Jose Lopez of Make the Road New York, Stephanie Cancel from Churches United for Fair Housing and Jesus Gonzalez, also from Churches United.
Adi Talwar
It's not always clear what rezonings did that the market wouldn't have anyway. After the rezoning, rents in Williamsburg increased by 21.3 percent. But during the same period in Bushwick, median rents increased by 20.2 percent.
William Alatriste for the New York City Council
Councilmember Rafael Espinal: 'East New York was a neighborhood that has been neglected for a very long time. ... Bushwick is like a flame or a fire that's out of control.'
Eli Duke
View of Bedford-Stuyvesant from above. Along with Crown Heights and Bushwick, it's where real-estate gurus see room for investment now.
Members of the Bushwick Housing Independence Project rally outside the home of landlord Joel Israel, linked to several Brooklyn buildings with high numbers of housing-code violations.
The MTA’s decision to reroute the M train through the heart of midtown Manhattan in 2010 erased the invisible barrier that Myrtle Avenue represented. Passenger traffic at this station, Central Avenue in South Bushwick, grew more in 2011-2012 than anywhere else in Brooklyn.
Residents on Gates Avenue between Evergreen and Central Avenues in Bushwick say this vacant house is a frequent location of crime. The 83rd Precinct is encouraging residents of the block and 33 others in Bushwick to form block associations in an effort to stop crime collaboratively.
The church at 1255 Bushwick Ave., once owned by the Lutheran church, was sold to real-estate guru and author of <i>The Real Estate Millionaire</i>, Boaz Gilad, in 2013.
