Knickerbocker Avenue
Shopping street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. The pin is the Knickerbocker Avenue subway station.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Another Brooklyn | Jacqueline Woodson | backdrop | Part of the widening map of the children’s freedom, and of its dangers. |
Another Brooklyn — Jacqueline Woodson (2016)
Source: Another Brooklyn · Readwise highlight
Down on Knickerbocker a girl ran out of her house, her robe on fire. By the time she was safe, she was naked.
- Role: backdrop
- In the book: As their father loosens his rules, August and her brother range from the gate to the corner, the bodega, the handball court, “down Knickerbocker” and across to the park. Later Knickerbocker is where, in the stories the girls know, a girl ran from a house fire in her burning robe.
- Why it matters: A street in the neighbourhood’s texture of freedom and danger.