History, Natural History & the Arts
In 2010, The New York Times Magazine called Bushwick, Brooklyn “the coolest place on the planet,” four years later Vogue Magazine named it the “7th coolest neighborhood in the world.”
Whether or not you agree, there is no denying the transformations the neighborhood has gone through since the 1600s, when the Dutch named it Boswijck, or “heavy woods.” [Read more…] about Burning Bushwick & The 1977 New York City Blackout
On April 27, 1972, Mayor John V. Lindsay sent a letter to the Hon. Raymond F. Farrell, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, U. S. Department of Justice, in Washington, DC.
Lindsay wrote to Farrell on behalf of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, “who are currently facing deportation proceedings initiated by your Department.” Lindsay acknowledged to Farrell that the couple “speak out with strong and critical voices on major issues of the day.” [Read more…] about Immigration and Deportation: NYC Mayors and Federal Officials
On December 20, 1986, 23-year-old Michael Griffith, along with his friends Cedric Sandiford and Timothy Grimes, were traveling from Brooklyn to Queens when their car broke down in Howard Beach, a predominantly white, middle-class Queens neighborhood.
The three young Black men walked to New Park Pizza and asked to use the phone. [Read more…] about December 20, 1986: Racists Attack in Howard Beach
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