Gentrified Brooklyn Is Not My Brooklyn
Category: LATINO VOICES
These days, when I go back to Bushwick what I remember isn't what is. The corriente that ran through the neighborhood is gone. There's no Jerry Rivera blasting from passing cars. La doña who never left her spot at the window of her second floor apartment on Grove Street, is gone.
By Vanessa Mártir, ContributorWriter, educator, dreamer, bad-ass, 2015-03-16