https://thebushwickarchive.org/files/original/b0b1b2cbc842409aacc2426e6221e6ca.jpg c3a621a81786bb22d7f5273e87c8f39c https://thebushwickarchive.org/files/original/945f332dae593a0b9458d066b4adf0e8.jpg 5f26a138ae3b723921a5abaccd70d0b2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource History of Bushwick Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wikipedia and THE FOOD COMMUNITIES OF NYC https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/lobel11neighborhoods/bushwick/bushwick-history/ Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. Relevant Web Links https://historicgreenpoint.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/the-1977-blackout-and-looting-in-bushwick/ https://gothamist.com/news/how-the-1977-blackout-was-bushwicks-grimmest-moment URL https://historicgreenpoint.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/the-1977-blackout-and-looting-in-bushwick/ https://gothamist.com/news/how-the-1977-blackout-was-bushwicks-grimmest-moment Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The 1977 Blackout Description An account of the resource On the night of July 13, 1977, a major blackout cut power to nearly all of New York City, and arson, looting, and vandalism occurred in low-income neighborhoods across the city. Bushwick suffered some of the most devastating damage and losses. While store owners along Knickerbocker and Graham avenues were able to defend their stores, the Broadway shopping district was heavily looted and burned. Twenty-seven stores along Broadway were burned, and looters and some residents saw the blackout as an opportunity to get what they otherwise could not afford.[50]: 104  Newspapers around the country published UPI and the Associated Press's photos of Bushwick residents with stolen items and a police officer beating a suspected looter, and Bushwick became known for riots and looting.[51] Fires spread to many residential buildings as well. After the riots were over and the fires were put out, residents saw unsafe dwellings and empty lots among surviving buildings, leading one author to describe the scene as "some streets that looked like Brooklyn Heights, and others that looked like Dresden in 1945":[50]: 181  The business vacancy rate on Broadway reached 43% in the wake of the riots. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977-07-13