Bushwick: the warehouses and the murals
The Bushwick Collective walls, warehouses turned galleries, and the food on Knickerbocker Avenue. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. The Bushwick Collective, Troutman Street
Start where the L lets you out, a block from the open-air mural walls that fill Troutman Street and the blocks around St Nicholas Avenue. The work is repainted often, so the wall you photograph won't be there next year. Walk it slowly; there's no order to it.

2. The warehouse galleries
Off the mural blocks the buildings are still working warehouses, some now galleries and music venues behind unmarked doors. You won't always know which is which from the street; that's part of the texture.

3. Maria Hernandez Park
The neighbourhood's green square, named for a resident who stood up to the drug trade and was killed for it. A bench here is the natural midpoint; the park is busy and local in a way the mural blocks aren't.

4. Knickerbocker Avenue
East of the park, the older commercial spine — the bakeries, the taquerías, the Puerto Rican and Mexican kitchens that fed Bushwick long before the galleries. Eat here, not on the mural blocks.

5. Myrtle Avenue and the changing blocks
Cut back west through the industrial streets, where the brick is half-loft, half-still-working. The change is mid-stride here, neither one thing nor the other; it's the most honest stretch of the walk.

6. Morgan Av station
The L stop at the western edge, ringed by the largest warehouses and a few of the better galleries. One stop back towards the city, or onward to the rest of the line.

Bushwick: the warehouses and the murals