Word: bushwick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looters, this theory holds up. Of course, right knees jerked as rapidly as the left ones, as some observers claimed that the looters stole because they were human jackals, amoral animals, the scum of the earth. Newsweek quoted one woman as saying the looters were "coming across Bushwick Avenue like buffalos...
...York's worst-hit areas was a 14-block stretch of jewelry, clothing, appliance, furniture and other retail stores along Broadway in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Reported TIME'S Paul Witteman: "The evidence of looting was numbing. As firemen fought blazes from cherrypickers, the looters went about their business virtually unmolested. Occasionally they would step over to one of the fire trucks and drink water from a running outlet. Some of the more enterprising looters parked rented trucks on the side streets, engines running, and loaded up with couches, refrigerators, TV sets?the durable goods that will sell most...
When two men in Bushwick wearily set down a heavy box of shoes, a band of youths swooped in like vultures and made off with the prize. A teen-age girl on Manhattan's upper West Side complained to friends that some boys had offered to help carry away clothes and radios, then had stolen them from her. Said she, with the skewed logic of the looters: "That's just not right. They shouldn't have done that...
Others offered strained justifications. Said a young woman who called herself Afreeka Omfree: "It's really sort of beautiful. Everybody is out on the streets together. There's sort of a party atmosphere." Declared a young man in Bushwick: "Prices have gone too high. Now we're going to have no prices. When we get done, there ain't gonna be no more Broadway." Said a man in his 30s, grasping a wine bottle in one hand and a TV set in another: "You take your chance when you get a chance." Added Gino, 19, a father...