Bushwick in Recovery from Liberalism

Via The City Journal, a Brooklyn neighborhood finally recovers from decades of misguided urban policies.

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[...]Often described by residents as a forgotten neighborhood, Bushwick was once a solid blue-collar community. But starting in the 1960s, a steady barrage of demographic changes and ruinous Great Society policies battered it down. So total was the devastation that even as New York began rebounding in the mid-1990s, Bushwick remained largely untouched by gentrification.

Something is in the air in the Big Apple. Let's hope the rest of country looks and learns.