Bushwick
Neighbourhood in north Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Another Brooklyn | Jacqueline Woodson | setting | August’s childhood neighbourhood, where the four girls grow up. |
Sub-places
- Gates Avenue
- Irving Square Park
- Knickerbocker Avenue
- Poncho’s bodega (Another Brooklyn)
- Sylvia’s house (Another Brooklyn)
Another Brooklyn — Jacqueline Woodson (2016)
Source: Another Brooklyn · Readwise highlight
Because Bushwick had once been a forest and we had been called ghetto girls even though we were beautiful and our arms were locked together and our T-shirts blared our names and zodiac signs.
- Role: setting
- In the book: August, her father and brother move from SweetGrove, Tennessee, to a top-floor apartment in Bushwick, which the book dedicates itself to. From the window and then the streets she watches the neighbourhood of the 1970s: the bodega, the handball court, the park where DJs run cords from the street lights, the looting on Broadway the summer the lights went out, the fires in the wood-frame houses, and the friendship with Sylvia, Angela and Gigi.
- Why it matters: The neighbourhood is the novel’s world; its dangers and its freedoms shape the girls’ friendship and August’s growing up.