Bushwick Greenery

Every Tuesday Knickerbocker's "Son Of Seth" joins me on walking tours of New York neighborhoods in an attempt to recapture the magic of Knickerbocker Village.
Using information from Adrienne Onofri's Walking Brooklyn we traversed the path indicated., an excerpt:

In tracing the history of Bushwick, one of the five original Kings County towns founded by the Dutch (as Boswijck in 1661), two words are bound to come up: beer and blackout. Bushwick’s brewing industry, which before Prohibition accounted for 1 in 10 beers drunk in the country, may have begun with Hessian soldiers who stuck around after aiding the king’s army in the Battle of Brooklyn, but it burgeoned in the mid-1800s, when thousands of German immigrants moved in. After World War II, Bushwick started losing both its economic linchpin and middle-class stability. Beer companies consolidated production at plants outside New York, and families fled to the suburbs. The biggest blow occurred in July 1977, when looters and arsonists laid siege to ghettos like Bushwick during a 26-hour citywide blackout. By the time the lights came on, some 35 blocks in Bushwick had been nearly destroyed and $300 million in damage done. Within a year, 40 percent of businesses shuttered; the population fell considerably