Kosciuszko Street (J)

Straddling Bushwick and Bed-Stuy, this stop is a must-visit for street art.

In general the area has dichotomous vibes: establishments either cater to the Black/Brown and immigrant community, or to the recent gentrifiers (both of the homeowning-white-women-with-strollers variety and scraping-by artists of color).

Walk along Broadway street towards Myrtle (JMZ) for a tour of the street art and mixed-immigrant-and-gentrifiers vibe.

Street Art:

The intersections of Broadway Street with

- Dodworth St
- Lawton St
- Hart St
-Suydam St

are all prime street art spots.

Hip Gentrifier Spots:

Lalin’s (Coffee + Wine)

Secret Pour (queer-friendly bar)

Second Hand Records (vinyl records store)

Orinthology Jazz Club (graffiti’d jazz bar)

Santa Panza (casual Italian dinner date)

Mai Tai’s Tiki Bar & Kitchen (sports bar).

Community Spots:

Collective Focus (community resource center with free goods & fridges)

The Living Gallery (community art classes)

Brooklyn Paints (community paint events and classes)

Eureka’s (pop up event collective giving Salvation Mountain vibes)

The Non-Gentrified Spots

Project 472 wants to do a better job of promoting pre- and non-gentrified, community-oriented spots in the neighborhood. This can be hard to do because these are places that often don’t have a big internet presence. So my best advice is that you walk around the area and engage with the non-gentrified spots.

One I’ll shout out: D’Valdez Cleaner/Tailor. It gives the vibe that it’s here for and by the local immigrant community. I hope places like this can stick around, even with the onslaught of gentrification.

The photos below have more shout outs.

Broadway and Dodworth.

Washing machine, anyone?

One of the non-gentrified spots, catering to the local Latinx community.

AJ of Eurekas, which is a mini community stage across the street from Secret Pour. It’s the kind of thing where I’m not sure how long the pop-up will last, but perhaps the takeaway is that this is the kind of stop where this kind of pop up would happen.

Another non-gentrified spot.

Free resources, goods, and food for the community.

A friend in a deli beneath the subway who wanted his photo taken.

Just a little boop of art.