Photo Gallery: Sidestreet Scenes
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The buildings in the background, lining Bushwick Ave, haven't
changed in a while, except perhaps for newer, energy efficient
(and openable), metal frame windows, which probably replaced
crumbling wood sash windows in the 80's. Also unchanged for at
least 33 years or more, are the twinlamp braced uplift masts
holding twin GE M400's. I took this in March 1998, when at least
one of them, on the right, was not working, hence the green ticket
of doom tied around it's refractor glass. I'm sad to say that
it did not receive a new lamp. It received a death sentence.
It's leftside brother continues to light the way in mercury,
with a HPS TB113 series luminaire for a neighbor. This part of Bushwick Ave, astride the Brownsville/East New York border, specializes in auto related shops, lots and services. Cemetary of the Evergreens, along with several other neighboring burial grounds, spreads out behind these buildings, essentially cordoning off this part of Brooklyn from the Ridgewood section of Queens. |
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The right turn onto Bushwick, from Eastern Pkwy, is atrociously
handled by the DOT. Not only do both center and left lanes have
to make it, but the right lane is supposed to have merged into
the center lane first, which most drivers in the right lane fail
to do, resulting in three defacto lanes of traffic making an
extremely sharp right turn, onto 2 lanes of Bushwick. Those heading for the Jackie Robinson Pkwy via Eastern Pkwy, essentially have the choice of coming through here, or via another obnoxious detour, down Dean St to East New York Ave, thence under the Atlantic Avenue overpass, past a giant bus depot at Fulton and Broadway, before finally reaching the start of the Robinson. Busses are always double and triple parked there, but at least you avoid the crowded sharp right. |