Bushwick, Brooklyn

Bushwick
Neighborhood of Brooklyn
Knickerbocker Avenue, a main shopping street south of Maria Hernandez Park
Country	United States
State	New York
City	New York City
Borough	Brooklyn
Area
• Total	3.38 km2 (1.305 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	129,239
• Density	38,000/km2 (99,000/sq mi)
Ethnicity
• White	8.0%
• Black	16.8%
• Hispanic	69.9%
• Asian	1.8%
• Other	3.4%
Economics
• Median income	$33,933
ZIP codes	11206, 11207, 11221, 11237

Bushwick is a working-class neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood, historically a community of Germanic immigrants and their descendants, has been predominantly Hispanic in the late 20th century. The neighborhood, formerly Brooklyn's 18th Ward, is now part of Brooklyn Community Board 4. It is policed by the NYPD's 83rd Precinct and is represented in the New York City Council as part of Districts 34 and 37.

Bushwick shares a border with Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast, and is bound by the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg to the northwest; East New York and the cemeteries of Highland Park to the southeast; Brownsville to the south; and Bedford-Stuyvesant to the southwest. It is served by ZIP codes 11206, 11207, 11221, and 11237. Bushwick was once an independent town and has undergone various territorial changes throughout its history.

Neighborhoods in New York do not have official boundaries; informal boundaries are often contested, and this has been the case with Bushwick. However, the boundaries of Bushwick are often given as those of Brooklyn Community Board 4, which is delineated by Flushing Avenue on the north, Broadway on the southwest, the border with Queens to the northeast, and the Cemetery of the Evergreens on the southeast.

The industrial area north of Flushing Avenue, east of Bushwick Avenue, and south of Grand Street is also commonly included in Bushwick, occasionally with the modifier "Industrial Bushwick".