Bushwick Commuters

Where Bushwick Residents Work and
How They Get There

Like Sunset Park, Bushwick is a relatively affordable neighborhood with close promity to a major industrial area, in this case the East Williamsburg Industrial Business Zone as well as nearby Maspeth and Long Island City. Other loocal employers include Woodhull Hospital, retail strips, and social services.

Most Bushwick residents do not own cars and therefore can only take jobs they can walk, bike, carpool or take the bus or subway to - a serious constraint for an area where, at the time of this snapshot, unemployment stood at 17 percent. Bushwick is fairly close to Manhattan employment centers but subway commutes are nonetheless long, thanks to the need to transfer trains to enter most parts of Manhattan.