Sylvia’s house (Another Brooklyn)

Unnamed or fictional setting in Another Brooklyn; pinned at a best-guess location within Bushwick.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Another Brooklyn	Jacqueline Woodson	setting	The narrator and her friends visit Sylvia’s well-kept house, where they feel out of place among the china plates and rules, and Sylvia has a pink room.

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There was a pool table in the basement, a refrigerator that dispensed ice.

Role: setting
In the book: The narrator and her friends visit Sylvia’s well-kept house, where they feel out of place among the china plates and rules, and Sylvia has a pink room. Her strict father later turns the three girls away at the door. It is a middle-class refuge contrasted with their block.
Why it matters: The dedication and local street names fix the neighbourhood as Bushwick, but the house is fictional with no address, so the neighbourhood centroid is used.
Where is it?: ⚠️ best-guess. Clues in the text: “For Bushwick (1970–1990)”; “Sylvia’s room was pink.”; “There was a pool table in the basement, a refrigerator that dispensed ice.”; “we were no longer Sylvia’s friends”; “the shoe repair on Gates Avenue”; “Down on Knickerbocker” What reference works say: Brownstoner article on the novel: set in Bushwick, “a Bushwick that no longer exists” per Woodson. No specific street or house is named for Sylvia. Chosen: Bushwick, Brooklyn (house unspecified). Alternatives: Bedford-Stuyvesant; Crown Heights