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Missing Tooth and Open Sky
Brooklyn, NY - upfromflames - Monday, February 19th, 2007 : goo
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An open piece of sky in is a joy in any part of NYC. This little patch opens up under the Broadway EL at Melrose in Bushwick, onto a painful time mostly past: the era of the "missing tooth block".
For many years in Bushwick and other NYC neighborhoods, fires created blocks with varying empty gaps. Some gaps stretched half blocks or more. These empty lots, filled with ruins, trash, weeds, and garbage, were a reminder of what was once there, and how it was destroyed, and that you might be next...
Thankfully, since the 1980's an array of scatter site housing projects have filled these missing teeth. There are now few left in the area, and more are filling everyday with gleaming new private development.
This one is behind the corner of Broadway and Jefferson. Maybe one day it will be filled, too.
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m: 23rd Feb 2007 - 03:35 GMT
missing tooth....ow..I just had an implant done.
missing tooth architecture and dental work---both very expensive in the long run and not ever as good as what was destroyed..
upfromflames: 3rd Mar 2007 - 14:09 GMT
This emptiness of this space at the corner of Central Ave and Suydam St. is made more powerful by its cause. A friend of mine had an aunt die in a fire on this spot in the late 1970’s. The memories got too old, and her mother just threw out the charred remnants of her aunt’s sweater last year.
Another building stood on this spot for a few years, but it was vacant before long and has since taken down---for what, I don’t know. But for now, the empty space has been a woeful reminder—to those who remember.
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