Brzeska Street

@. Brzeska
architect. none
finished. a work in progress

One of the main streets of Old Praga. The oldest surviving building is the Technical School of the Terespol Railway (1872-73). The street first appears on Warsaw plans in 1870 and by the turn of the century it was flanked by eclectic tenements with grand facades and often humble interiors. These tenements were mostly populated by workers of Jewish descent. The street has remained unchanged since then slowly falling into disrepair. Currently with the renaissance of Praga several galleries have appeared. The courtyards are definitely worth looking into, as are the staircases. The street is the western border of Bazar Rozyckiego a marketplace that has it's roots in 1864 but whose place in current city mythology was cemented during communism when it gained a reputation for being able to find things on the black market and where private entrepreneurship flourished.