Bogart / Forrest / Central Ave

Another trip through Bushwick along with a couple of streets on the northwest side of Flushing Ave.

The first bump on my walk was because I stopped at a store. I had to come back to Bushwick Ave though because I had to get across the train tracks. And then up Johnson Ave to get to Bogart Street, where the real walk began.

Bogart St runs from Ten Eyck Street to Flushing Ave, but it divided by the railway. (It doesn't run all the way to Grand St.) The first three pictures show the street and some of the "street art" I passed along the way.

Bogart ends at Flushing Ave. It doesn't turn into a different street, so I walked northeast to one end of Forrest Street, which runs a single block from Flushing to Central Ave and the Green Central Knoll Playground (if you're looking for a grassy knoll...). As I've mentioned before, this playground was once the home of the famous Rheingold Brewery. Today, the site is home to a softball field and a small children's playground. According to the plaque, it was dedicated in 1999.

Central Ave is sort of central to Bushwick, but not quite. It runs less than two miles from Flushing to Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.

Fermi Playground is adjacent to Enrico Fermi Junior High School, aka I.S. 347 and I.S. 349. Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

Crossing under the el at Myrtle Ave isn't quite the halfway mark (between a 1/4 and a 1/3), but it always seems like progress.

I don't know where this mural is. It isn't in Google Maps. It could've been before the subway and not after. (I would've taken the picture after.) I did take a picture of the street sign at HIMROD for some reason, but it has nothing to do with the mural before it or the church after it. (I deleted the street sign because there was no reason to post it.)

St. Barbara Roman Catholic Church sits on the corner of Bleeker St. The church was built 1910 to the designs of the architectural firm of Helmle and Huberty. It was named not only for the saint but for the brewer Leonard Eppig's little daughter Barbara. (Cool story that has been documented.) The parish was established as a national parish to serve the German Catholic community.

Next to the Church, there was a building with interesting artwork. However, the tree made it a little difficult to get a good shot.

In contrast, at Covert St, there is a string of buildings for people who wants apartments that feel like prisons (without bars or guards or anything). Sterile living, and what's with that yellow stripe and the yellow boxes around some of the windows. Does housing have to be ugly? Does making it nice to look at double the rent or something?

End of the line. There's the L train heading to Broadway Junction. The final image is the cemetery as seen from the L platform at Wilson Ave.

And that's it for this trip. Come back soon.

All of the above photos and videos, unless otherwise stated, were taken by Christopher J. Burke and are subject to copyright.

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