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New York City (all the boroughs, except maybe Staten Island which I have never visited) had the most amazing 1870s-1950s industrial architecture existing anywhere, which includes warehouses and actually (although ignorants will gasp) housing projects which have the same basic architectural style of towering repetitive brick elements. Too much of that has unfortunately been torn down, the remaining stuff is very valuable, and those who know anything about architecture also tend to know that it is valuable. This new glass garbage is worthless (eg, Trump buildings on the extreme West Side), and it will become the new slum architecture eventually - hopefully in my lifetime. Brick is a solid building material, glass is not. There is a good book about coastal areas of Manhattan (Phillip Lopate: Waterfront), where the author visited some of these new expensive glass monstrosities, and concluded there are spectacular views, but nothing else - cheap shoddy construction and materials, paper-thin walls, lack of any architectural detail. You buy the view at the expense of living in a horribly badly made building. I hope that people in the know, at any level of income (eg, people with careers in humanities - highbrow/low paid) will soon start exploring the Bronx in larger numbers.
Truth to tell by the 1960's or so Bushwick like many other parts of NYC had begun emptying out of whites (white flight) as part of the post war shift to the suburbs (or Staten Island, *LOL*). But it was the big blackout of 1977 that wrapped things up for what was left of many decent people.
Now the area is coming back but as with many other areas of NYC including Harlem Bushwick on average had longer nice/good periods than bad.
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