Bushwick (New York, N.Y.)

LC control no.	nr 98013197
Geographic heading	Bushwick (New York, N.Y.) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	New York (N.Y.). Bushwick Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Bushwick
Special note	SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a geographic subdivision.
Found in	Lyon, D. Bushwick : "let them kill themselves", 1996. The ency. of New York City, 1995: p. 171, etc. (Bushwick; neighborhood in northeastern Brooklyn; estab. as Boswijck in 1660) Wikipedia, Jan. 5, 2012 (Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn; was once an independent town and has undergone various territorial changes throughout its history; in 1638, the Dutch West India Company secured a deed from the local Lenape people for the Bushwick area, and Peter Stuyvesant chartered the area in 1661, naming it "Boswijck," meaning "little town in the woods" or "Heavy Woods" in 17th century Dutch. Its area included the modern day communities of Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint; at the turn of the 19th century, Bushwick consisted of four villages, Green Point, Bushwick Shore, later to be known as Williamsburg, Bushwick Green, and Bushwick Crossroads)
Geographic area code	n-us-ny