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figures marking Bushwick as too rich to qualify. As bulldozers cleared tracts and destroyed tenement housing in East New York, Brownsville, and Williamsburg to make way for new low-income housing projects—many of which were never built—displaced residents found their way to Bushwick. The closing of the beer industry after the Navy Yard accelerated the process of urban decay. Racial tensions between Italians and Puerto Ricans, in particular, sometimes boiled over, as Cuso recalled. In 1977 the Eighty-third police precinct was overwhelmingly white, but those officers policed a neighborhood that was “overwhelmingly black and Hispanic with a narrow strip of Italians along its western edge. ‘Our job was about arresting minorities,’” a police officer from the Eighty-third told Mahler.102
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