Prep High School The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brooklyn operates Catholic schools in that borough. St. Brigid-St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Academy formed from the 2019 merger of the St. Brigid and St. Frances Cabrini schools, with students at St. Brigid. In 2019 it had about 100 students. Libraries The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has two branches in Bushwick. The DeKalb branch is located at 790 Bushwick Avenue near DeKalb Avenue. It is a Carnegie library that opened in 1905. The Washington Irving branch, located at 360 Irving Avenue near Woodbine Street, opened in 1923 and was Brooklyn's final Carnegie library. In addition, the Saratoga branch is located at 8 Thomas S. Boyland Street near Macon Street, just outside Bushwick. The branch is a Carnegie library that opened in 1909. The Bushwick branch, which is actually located in East Williamsburg, is located at 340 Bushwick Avenue near Seigel Street, four blocks of Bushwick's northern border at Flushing Avenue. The Bushwick branch was founded in 1903 and its current building opened in 1908. Transportation New York City Subway lines running through Bushwick include the BMT Jamaica Line (), the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line (), and the BMT Canarsie Line (). The Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues bus and subway hub was renovated into a state-of-the-art transportation center in 2007. New York City Bus lines serving Bushwick include the . The Long Island Rail Road's Evergreen Branch used to run from northwest to southeast through Bushwick. The branch opened in 1878, though passenger service on the branch ended in 1896. However, the Evergreen Branch continued to be used as a freight branch until it was abandoned in 1984. Since then, the route of the former railroad branch have been developed, converted to parking lots, or lain vacant. During the 1960s, under the direction of Robert Moses, there were plans to build an extension of I-78 through Bushwick, to connect lower Manhattan with the southern shore of Long Island. The extension was to be called the Bushwick Expressway, but was never built, due to then Mayor John V. Lindsay's concerns that traffic leaving Manhattan should bypass it via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. In 2010, 68% of residents used public transportation, up from 59% in 2000. Almost all residents (96%) live within of the subway. Notable people 6ix9ine (born 1996), rapper who received international attention for his 2017 breakout hit song "Gummo". Eric Adams (born 1960), politician and retired