page_title: Bushwick, Brooklyn
section_title: Housing
hierarchical_section_title: Bushwick, Brooklyn / Housing
caption_attribution_description: English: Row houses in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Posted by photographer. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terraced_house
context_page_description: Bushwick is a working-class neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; East New York and the cemeteries of Highland Park to the southeast; Brownsville to the south; and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the southwest.
  The town was first founded by the Dutch during the Dutch colonization of the Americas in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the neighborhood became a community of German immigrants and their descendants; by the late 20th century, it became predominantly Hispanic as another wave of immigrants arrived. Formerly Brooklyn's 18th Ward, the neighborhood was once an independent town and has undergone various territorial changes throughout its history.
  Bushwick is part of Brooklyn Community District 4, and its primary ZIP Codes are 11206, 11207, 11221, and 11237. It is patrolled by the 83rd Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 34th and 37th Districts.
context_section_description: Bushwick's diverse housing stock includes six-family apartment buildings and two- and three-family townhouses.  However, three New York City Housing Authority developments are located in Bushwick for residents of low income.
  Bushwick II CDA (Group E); five three-story buildings
  Hope Gardens; seven four- and one fourteen-story buildings
  Palmetto Gardens; one six-story building
  Median rent in 2007 was $795, about one in six rental units is subsidized, and greater than one in three units is rent regulated. 4% of renters live in severely overcrowded conditions. In 2007, the neighborhood had an 18.7% homeownership rate while roughly 1 in 20 owners of 1–4 unit buildings received a notice of foreclosure. Between 1990 and 2014, rental costs in Bushwick increased by 44%, the fourth-highest rise in New York City.
caption: Row houses in alternating cream, yellow, and gray brick, on Weirfield Street
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