The New York districts of Bushwick and Williamsburg: graffiti art and vintage- street style
Two neighborhoods that offer an alternative tourism...
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps (Frank Sinatra)
New York has the infinite ability to evolve into something different. And over the decades the neighborhoods of Bushwick and Williamsburg in Brooklyn have become the subjects of the so-called “gentrification”: a mix of rapid urban, economic, socio-cultural and artistic transformations that allowed and is still permitting these places of renew and re-launch.
Change is still taking place in Bushwick. Industrial area until a few years ago, today it has been chosen by many artists who have moved their laboratory inside the many factories now abandoned, painting the facades with great skill. An extraordinary open-air street art museum where a lot of used goods shops abound, a veritable vintage shopping realm.
Williamsburg has been completely transformed within a decade, becoming the hipster- nonconormist- district and the creatives of the moment par excellence. In the old decommissioned warehouses, art galleries, alternative bars, vintage shops, artisanal workshops and fashion boutiques “silhouetted” among interesting murals and graffiti have found their place.
Two neighborhoods that offer an alternative tourism to the commercial and often chaotic typical of Manhattan. A New York that I still did not know and that pleasantly conquered me.
Obviously not be missed…
