Light display floods Bushwick junction as protesters denounce rezoning
A Bushwick anti-gentrification group projected billboard-sized messages onto the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues subway station on Friday night to denounce what they call a dangerous potential rezoning in the neighborhood.
With the help of art-activist collective The Illuminator, the group Mi Casa No Es Su Casa ornamented the brick wall with messages like “Rezonings are Racist,” “Save Our Homes, Don’t Rezone” and “DCP Always Sides with Developers.” The drive for the action was the potential rezoning of Bushwick, a process that kicked off in April after the city presented a draft plan for the project.
The plan — which the Department of City Planning dubbed the Bushwick Neighborhood Plan — triggered a backlash from a group community stakeholders and local politicians who had been working since 2014 to draft their own version of a plan for rezoning, which they called the Bushwick Community Plan.