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Isn't that area East Williamsburg rather that Bushwick proper. Bushwick proper has some good and bad too. Best time to take a walk in either of these neighborhoods is during the summer. This is when you really get to see the good, the bad and the ugly. Been there and done that.
I agree with the OP. Only some sections of Bed Stuy do you even see some gentrification, and Bushwick even less. I only notice a small amount along Wyckoff Avenue.
They're building everywhere on the LES, are you nuts? Bushwick has nothing in common with the LES. Yes, there is a band of projects running along the East River, but the interior of the neighborhood is full of built or under-construction luxury condos and hipster-y bars and lounges.
I agree with the OP. Only some sections of Bed Stuy do you even see some gentrification, and Bushwick even less. I only notice a small amount along Wyckoff Avenue.
In bedstuy you'll see more white people buying brownstones whereas in bushwick you'll see more white people opening up cafés and eateries. Depends on which you consider to be gentrification, more people in general or swapping out poor people for rich people. Personally I think the prior brings more potential. Either way neither is even close to fully gentrifying. Architecture isn't everything. It can make a place bland.
Like you said, I'm sure it's much better than what it was in the 80s and 90s, but I too walked through places like Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Harlem and the place (to a sheltered Australian, like myself) looked like a ghetto dump. And white people were few and far between. In fact, except for the odd hipster here and there, all I saw was non whites (excluding the Hasidic Jews).
They're building everywhere on the LES, are you nuts? Bushwick has nothing in common with the LES. Yes, there is a band of projects running along the East River, but the interior of the neighborhood is full of built or under-construction luxury condos and hipster-y bars and lounges.
They share history such as population migration patterns. From the Germans to the Italians to the Puerto Ricans to the hipsters. The spread started in the LES/East Village to Williamsburg/Bushwick to escape overcrowding, then later to Ridgewood/Glendale/Cypress Hills/Woodhaven for the 'burbs.
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This is when you really get to see the good, the bad and the ugly. Been there and done that.
