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Through Snow and Sludge, Bushwick Proves its Winter Grit [Photos]

Winter in NYC is probably my least favorite time of year because, sure, the snow looks pretty for about three minutes when it first begins to fall, but then it either melts and turns into brown sludge, or it freezes and turns into sheets of ice

Through Snow and Sludge, Bushwick Proves its Winter Grit [Photos]
Insta-Takeover - Shawn Rutkowski - snow, blizzard, stoplight

Through Snow and Sludge, Bushwick Proves its Winter Grit [Photos]

Winter in NYC is probably my least favorite time of year because, sure, the snow looks pretty for about three minutes when it first begins to fall, but then it either melts and turns into brown sludge, or it freezes and turns into sheets of ice

Through Snow and Sludge, Bushwick Proves its Winter Grit [Photos]

Winter in NYC is probably my least favorite time of year because, sure, the snow looks pretty for about three minutes when it first begins to fall, but then it either melts and turns into brown sludge, or it freezes and turns into sheets of ice. And as much as I love Bushwick, it’s no different from any other borough when it comes to the perils of winter weather. But what do other boroughs not have? A Bushwick Daily Insta-Takeover series to capture the beauty within the grit, that’s wut.

Shawn Rutkowski ‘s 10-day Insta-Takeover focused on the wintry, gritty side of the neighborhood. Shawn, a NYC-based, internationally published photographer and marketer, showed that Bushwick is a lived-in neighborhood. Maybe…

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