BUSHWICK - "Williamsburg's cooler sister..."

Fun article about our hood...

Bushwicking! Get to this low-key hip neighborhood now
By Ben Muessig

Everyone meet Bushwick: Williamsburg’s cooler sister who doesn’t wear as much make-up.

The hardscrabble neighborhood known for its industrial buildings and once-mean streets has grown into an unpretentious artistic enclave surrounding the Morgan Avenue L train station — without any of the expected pomposity and hoopla.

“Bushwick is where most of the stuff in Brooklyn is going on — or at least most of the stuff that people who aren’t particularly wealthy can afford to do,” said Jeremy Sapienza, who runs the revered neighborhood Web sitewww.bushwickBK.com.

Sapienza touts the neighborhood nestled between Flushing and Bushwick avenues and the English Kills channel for its art galleries, impromptu performance spaces, cafes, eateries, and its diverse building stock of tenements, lofts, active industrial sites, and vinyl-sided homes.

“We don’t have brownstones, but we’ve got our own stuff,” he said.

But it’s not the buildings that transformed Bushwick into a place to be — it’s the people who moved to the neighborhood around the sixth stop on the L train, according to Wreck Room bartender Jose Reyes.

“When I first moved here back before bars opened up, you’d come off the train in the middle of the night and there would be like two people getting off the L. Now there’s like 50,” said Reyes. “Bushwick is the new Williamsburg, which is the new the Lower East Side.”

So if you decide to follow Brooklyn’s eastward march towards its hipster manifest destiny, where should you go? Hop an L train — easy to catch from 14th Street in Manhattan...
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-jmd