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City Living: Bushwick
Once New York's beer capital -- there were 14 breweries spread across 14 blocks in the late 1800s -- Bushwick was home to wealthy professionals and industrial magnates who lived in the mansions lining Bushwick Avenue.
But Prohibition, the Depression and a series of workers' strikes led to the closure of many breweries, with the last two leaving in the mid-1970s.
The 1977 blackout led...
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