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February 3, 2012
Bushwick Hipsters Apparently Too Post-Ironic to Care About Area Crime
One of the more unexamined elements of the shooting of police officer Kevin Brennan is that it happened in Bushwick, which has recently replaced Williamsburg as the cheap hipster neighborhood of choice. The influx of young, white college students, who frequent newer coffee shops in Bushwick and fa ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Bushwick's Party Xpo To Reopen as Renovated XPO 929
Party Xpo, an uncommonly resilient DIY space nestled under the J/M/Z tracks, has magically withstood two years of logistical hassles. After opening in January 2010 with a typically cantankerous Japanther benefit show, local law enforcement took notice of the place, paid a few visits, and the space w ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Is This the Best Parallel Parking Job Ever?
Terrible confession: We don't drive -- regularly, anyway -- and we never learned how to make this sort of parallel parking magic happen. But it looks pretty effing fancy. Look at the wheels shimmy! This happened in New York City, in Bushwick, recently.
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Local Blog Bushwick BK Says Goodbye
A local blog that we like, Bushwick-centered Bushwick BK, has come to an end after years on the neighborhood blogging scene. Its editor Jeremy Sapienza posted a letter explaining his decision to end the site yesterday:
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Roberta's is Expanding in Bushwick
It appears Roberta's has grown too popular for its own good. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the Bushwick restaurant is looking to make alterations to the space next door on Moore Street so they can use it for special events and weddings. We predict a thousand-fold increase in the number of h ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
This Wooden Construction Barrier Was Left On the Street For Two Days After Erica Abbott's Death [Photo]
The above photo was sent to us by a tipster who took the picture at Powers Street and Bushwick Avenue shortly after the August 30th bike accident that killed 29-year-old dancer Erica Abbott. The tipster says, "I took this photo to show the wooden barrier that caused Erica to swerve into tra ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
3rd Ward Is Looking for Restaurateurs "With a Vision"
3rd WardTaxidermy and Edison lamps not pictured Those with a burning desire to open a restaurant in the gray area between Williamsburg and Bushwick, take note: 3rd Ward is seeking "experienced, qualified restaurateur[s] with a vision" to submit café proposals for its planned eatery at ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Our 10 Best Bushwick Restaurants
Plenty of fleecy white ricotta nicely peppered, pickled artichokes, and mozzarella on a perfect coal-fired crust, from Verde Coal Oven. Bushwick is potentially one of Brooklyn's best dining destinations. With its large Latin population, the cuisines of the Spanish diaspora are well represe ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Bushwick Restaurants
Will this humble taqueria, right off Maria Hernandez Park, make the cut? Convenient to the L, J, and M trains, Bushwick is gradually developing as a dining destination. Tomorrow, we explore its manifold possibilities in Our 10 Best Bushwick Restaurants. But is it merely an eastward extensio ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2011
Time to Make the Lemonade
Knickerbocker Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 1:14 p.m. (Click on image to enlarge.)
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March 14, 2011
Malice From The Clipse Will Be Signing His New Book In Bushwick Friday
"I knew this was something I had to do, so I went ahead and did it." Thus did Malice, the currently non-Kanye-affiliated half of SOTC-beloved rap duo Clipse, explain his decision to write Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind, and Naked, a somber autobiography tracing the coke-rap kingpin's highs, l ... More >>
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March 5, 2011
Mummified Slices of Roberta's Margherita Pizza Still Edible After One Month
The way it came about was this: After a foray to the sainted Bushwick pizzeria, I found myself with two slices of the pie remaining. But when I got home, I forgot about them and recycled the carton with the newspapers. When the quantity of paper and packaging became so great I could no longe ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 16, 2011
DIG IN
Who says art shows can't fill you up?
Blogs
February 15, 2011
Gay Boy Off the Menu in Bushwick
Looks like you can't just walk up to a counter and demand to eat a gay boy anymore. The Post reports that when Williamsburg haunt Hana Food opened a new location in Bushwick, it changed its "Gay Boy" wrap (egg, vegan bacon, vegan cheese, avocado, sprouts and sun-dried tomatoes) to the "Gard ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 5, 2011
True Grit
Bushwick’s desolate essence captured in color
Voice Choices
November 3, 2010
SCAVENGER HUNT
Visit the artists of Bushwick
Voice Choices
August 11, 2010
The Giraffes
Visit the artists of Bushwick
Blogs
July 26, 2010
Residential Protections Issued for Very, Very Lucky Commercial Building Dwellers
Artists are real estate rental geniuses. They always find fabulous deals and settle into cheap but very cool living spaces years before the rest of us realize that where they're living is the best bargain in town and subsequently ruin it with popular demand. Well, this time, artists and anyon ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 18, 2010
ART RIDER
Pop the kickstand on your weekly art fix
Voice Choices
May 11, 2010
Bel Air+Mama Bear+Holy Moly
Pop the kickstand on your weekly art fix
Blogs
April 21, 2010
Upset about Cameron Douglas's Jail Sentence? Send the Poor Boy to Bushwick Luxury Condo Halfway House.
Dope and dadCameron Douglas got sentenced yesterday to five years in jail for peddling meth to people beneath his station, but he won't languish nearly that long with the requisite time off for good behavior and drug rehab. What do you expect for a kid who was born with a silver coke spoon in his m ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
Hey, Look, a "DIY Bushwick Music Festival" Starts Tonight
Our collective obsession with another inaugural festival distracted us from a much more humble one happening right in our own backyard. Tonight, the first annual "DIY Bushwick Music Festival" commences, and though we're cynical fuckers leery of anyone using those three oft-abused letters to promot ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
With Bodega, Bushwick Gets a Full-On Wine Bar
Joe Shlabotnik/FlickrBooze you can use.Oh, the times they are a-changin': Just weeks after Bushwick got another cafe, it's now home to a full-fledged wine bar. Called Bodega, it opened last weekend on the somewhat barren corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and Troutman Street.
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March 19, 2010
Open & Closed: Say Hello to 57 Napoli Pizza e Vino; Goodbye to Seppi's
Restaurants, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and taking their leaves this week. Barocco Cafe in Chelsea, once run by the restaurateur behind the wine bars Bottino and Zampa, has been shuttered for weeks and is now being gutted. [Jeremiah's Vanishing NY] Seppi's in ... More >>
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January 13, 2010
Have You Seen... Camera-Smashing Bushwick Store Robbers
Around 4:30 a.m. on Monday three guys, one with a gun, robbed a deli on Evergreen Avenue in Bushwick, assaulting a clerk, a customer, and (as the video shows) a surveillance camera, which nonetheless got a brief view of its assailant, described (as are his colleagues) as Hispanic and between 5'6" ... More >>
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January 11, 2010
Have You Seen... Teen Robber in Bushwick
If this kid looks nervous, it's because he's about to rob a deli with a gun. He pulled the job on Friday around noon at a store on the corner of Evergreen Avenue and Palmetto Street in Bushwick. He is described as 16-22 years old, but he looks to us on the young side of that. If you have info NYP ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 8, 2009
Hieroglyphic Being
If this kid looks nervous, it's because he's about to rob a deli with a gun. He pulled the job on Friday around noon at a store on the corner of Evergreen Avenue and Palmetto Street in Bushwick. He is described as 16-22 years old, but he looks to us on the young side of that. If you have info NYP ... More >>
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November 11, 2009
Tonight! The xx, Ghostface Killah, Sharon Van Etten, And A Coupla Those Nice Travis Boys
Oooh, lookit, it's the XX, fresh from beguiling long lines of CMJ patrons and subsequently canceling shows due to exhaustion. That's all sorted out, apparently, and thus will pleasantly gloomy goth-pop elegies fill the air at Bowery Ballroom tonight. We're still all into this band, right, Int ... More >>
Art
August 4, 2009
The Van Goghs of Putt-Putt
Haul out the Stimpmeter—artists design two local miniature golf courses
Blogs
July 30, 2009
Northeast Kingdom's Paris Smeraldo on Bushwick, the Price of Milk
diegocupolo/flickrOn the street in Bushwick.Neighborhood change can often be measured in edible form: take the number of espresso bars in a three-block radius and divide that by the number of months it's taken them to open. Take that number and use it to multiply average storefront rent, and you ... More >>
News
July 28, 2009
Stop-and-Frisk 101: Arrest Training?
That's how a handful of dead-end high-schoolers ended up giving the city a big black eye.
Blogs
July 16, 2009
Have You Seen... Bushwick Robbers
Police are looking for some robbers in Bushwick. Their MO is to pull out guns, hop the store counter or go through an opening in the plexiglass, restrain the clerk, rob the register, and flee. Two of the perps hit 1209 Myrtle Avenue at 10:45 p.m. on June 11 and 70 Wilson Avenue at 5:05 p.m. on June ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 8, 2009
TEE OFF
Mini golf pops up in Bushwick
Blogs
July 6, 2009
Ground Broken at Bushwick Inlet Park
The long-awaited Bushwick Inlet Park finally broke ground today down by the water between North 9th and 10th Streets. It's been slow going, which has led to much complaining, and the city doesn't have all the property yet for the grand scheme, but at least the proposed power plant is off the t ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 1, 2009
Parts & Labor+Child Bite+Fiasco+Big Bear
The long-awaited Bushwick Inlet Park finally broke ground today down by the water between North 9th and 10th Streets. It's been slow going, which has led to much complaining, and the city doesn't have all the property yet for the grand scheme, but at least the proposed power plant is off the t ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show
In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2009
City Agrees to Pay 250K to Wrongly-Arrested Bushwick Kids
The city agreed this weekend to pay a $250,000 settlement to 32 youngsters from Bushwick who, back in 2007, were rounded up and arrested while walking to a friend's funeral in broad daylight. The young people -- all Black and Hispanic, ranging from ages 13 to early twenties -- were walking peacefu ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 25, 2009
ART INDULGENCE
Bushwick's got it going on
Blogs
January 29, 2009
DA Raids Bushwick Warehouse
District Attorney investigators raided a Chinese-owned warehouse in an industrial section of Bushwick on Monday, seizing heaps of counterfeit goods, including 2,000 laser-equipped toy guns. Realistic toy guns have been illegal in New York since the fifties, and the Bloomberg administration - as p ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2009
Nude Celebrity Journalist in Brooklyn Paper
Having lascivated painfully over Miss New York in his Brooklyn Paper, Editor Gersh Kuntzman decided it was time you put his own tuchas on the hook, and today chronicles his stint as a nude model for the "Drink and Draw" life class in Bushwick ("$15 and all the Pabst Blue Ribbon you can drink," whic ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 21, 2009
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Having lascivated painfully over Miss New York in his Brooklyn Paper, Editor Gersh Kuntzman decided it was time you put his own tuchas on the hook, and today chronicles his stint as a nude model for the "Drink and Draw" life class in Bushwick ("$15 and all the Pabst Blue Ribbon you can drink," whic ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2009
Live from D.C.: Bushwick Kids Watch Pete Seeger
On the national mall with the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School from Bushwick. Pete Seeger just sang "This Land is Your Land," and the principal, Nate Nudley, is helping a kid get warmed up. One student, a senior this year, just said: "I wanna be the first gay Hispanic president!" Another senio ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2009
Morgan Blair: Illustrator, RISD Grad, New Face
You've never heard of Morgan Blair. No one has, really--she's an illustrator fresh out of RISD, four months into a Bushwick lease, probably still unpacked. But last fall, some of her drawings showed up on Juxtapoz's online "Reader Art" section--a recurring feature that ranges from undiscovered tal ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2008
Bushwick Rallies Against Hate Crimes
You've never heard of Morgan Blair. No one has, really--she's an illustrator fresh out of RISD, four months into a Bushwick lease, probably still unpacked. But last fall, some of her drawings showed up on Juxtapoz's online "Reader Art" section--a recurring feature that ranges from undiscovered tal ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2008
New York Housing In Free-Fall; Opportunities for "Cash-Heavy Investors"
You've never heard of Morgan Blair. No one has, really--she's an illustrator fresh out of RISD, four months into a Bushwick lease, probably still unpacked. But last fall, some of her drawings showed up on Juxtapoz's online "Reader Art" section--a recurring feature that ranges from undiscovered tal ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2008
Scenes from the Bushwick Pride Parade
You've never heard of Morgan Blair. No one has, really--she's an illustrator fresh out of RISD, four months into a Bushwick lease, probably still unpacked. But last fall, some of her drawings showed up on Juxtapoz's online "Reader Art" section--a recurring feature that ranges from undiscovered tal ... More >>
News
June 19, 2007
The Second Battle of Bushwick
Thirty years after the blackout riots, it's getting hot all over again
NYC Life
July 25, 2006
Trouble in Store
Workers at a Brooklyn grocery say they're not paid fairly, if at all.
NYC Life
December 6, 2005
Close-Up on Bushwick, Brooklyn
Workers at a Brooklyn grocery say they're not paid fairly, if at all.
NYC Life
October 4, 2005
Sip Manhattans Before Teeing Off at a Members Only Bar
Workers at a Brooklyn grocery say they're not paid fairly, if at all.
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