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| LMNOPI, Portrait of Nasir Kidbreak Malave (photo © Jaime Rojo),, Brooklyn Street Art |
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No, this is not an advertisement for street art in New York or the New York neighborhood of Bushwick. It is a piece celebrating how art can change lives.
Life in Bushwick in the '80s was grim. The excerpt below describes a young man's experiences there:
After all the factory workers went home for the day, a rotating cast of prostitutes worked the block, withering under their addictions. As a boy, he thought the book “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” had to be some kind of joke.When you ask him today if he has any good memories of the neighborhood, where he lived just up the block, Mr. Ficalora comes up empty. (New York Times, Bushwick Gets a Fresh Coat, 2006)
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| Joseph Ficalora, the area's curator, NY Times |
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Today Bushwick is ranked the 17th best neighborhood in Brooklyn by StreetAdvisor; for some reviews by locals, take a look at the Bushwick page. (Note: be sure to check the date of the review.) For an opinion piece posted at the New York Times site, take a look at 5 NY Times Articles That Changed Bushwick. Also published by the NY Times, is this slideshow of works to view in Bushwick. The Bushwick Collective has a Facebook page.
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| Dasic at work, Bushwick Collective, Facebook |
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Two websites--Brooklyn Street Art and StreetArtNYC--offer views of art in Bushwick and other neighborhoods in the city.
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| Dasic Fernandez and Okuda, Street Art NYC |
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-- Marge
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