Bushwick, Brooklyn The extension was to be called the Bushwick Expressway, but was never built, due to then Mayor John V. Lindsay's concerns that traffic leaving Manhattan should bypass it via the Verrazano Bridge. All parks are operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Bushwick has a robust educational infrastructure of thirty-three public and private, primary and secondary schools. This includes 14 public elementary schools, one charter school, four parochial schools, seven high schools, and one secondary school. Bushwick, Brooklyn Bushwick is a working-class neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The
New Utrecht, Brooklyn New Utrecht, Brooklyn New Utrecht () was a town in western Long Island, New York, located in the present-day Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. New Utrecht was established in 1652 by Dutch settlers in the English colony of Province of New York, the last of the original six towns to be founded in Kings County. New Utrecht ceased to exist in 1894 when it was annexed by the City of Brooklyn, and became part of the City of Greater New York when Brooklyn joined as a borough in 1898. In 1643, Anthony Janszoon van Salee, a half-Dutch, half-Moroccan