Bushwick runs from Flushing Avenue down to the Cemetery of the Evergreens, with Broadway along the southwest side and the Queens line to the northeast. Most of it is two and three family houses and six family apartment buildings.
Brewing was the big industry here in the late nineteenth century. By 1890 there were fourteen breweries inside fourteen blocks, on what was called Brewer's Row. The last two, Schaefer and Rheingold, closed in 1976. The William Ulmer Brewery at Beaver and Belvidere Streets is the one still standing. In 2010 it became the first brewery the city gave landmark status.
The people who owned and ran those breweries built houses nearby, along and Irving Avenue. Doctors did the same. Many of those blocks still look different from the streets west of them, which went industrial instead.
On that side the roadways are wide and the buildings have loading bays and roll down shutters. There are water towers on the roofs. Manhattan is visible at the end of some of the streets.
The elevated lines run over that part of the neighborhood. The M is above and the J and Z are above Broadway. is the commercial strip beneath the M, and the station entrances are straight off the sidewalk.
Rail used to run at ground level here too. The Long Island Rail Road's Evergreen Branch went across from northwest to southeast. Freight ran on it until 1984. Parts of the route have been built on since. Others became parking or were left empty.
stands at Bleecker Street and , with two towers visible from several blocks off.
A second one is gone. The South Bushwick Reformed Church on was an 1850s Dutch Reformed building known as the White Church, and a city landmark since 1968. It burned on June 19, 2026 and the steeple came down. Most photographs of the avenue still show it standing.
