Bushwick

Tasting the Mexican Specials at Fritzl's Lunch Box

Fritzl's Lunch Box is a cheery American luncheonette smack in the middle of Bushwick that opened early this year. Chef Dan Ross-Leutwyler is an alum of Roberta's and Fatty 'Cue, and he has a knack for making de rigeur American food--roasted beets, grilled cheese sandwiches, and caesar salad, for ins ... More >>

A Bomb Just Went Off in Bushwick, Reports Rapper Kitty Pryde

Update: Tuesday, August 13, 2:40pm: Actually, it was multiple manhole fires, according to FDNY. The fires broke out this afternoon near 176 Maujer Street in Brooklyn. Four to five manholes were involved, but all of the fires were contained by 2:20pm. The cause remains unknown. "There's a number ... More >>

Rippers Sets Sail Again After Sandy

Did a Bushwick Community Board Illegally Approve a Rezoning for a Lucrative Development Site?

On Monday Community Board 4 in Bushwick convened to approve zoning changes that would speed up the development of the Rheingold Brewery site. The site would bring high-rise apartments and new retail locations to the center of Bushwick, a move which many neighborhood residents vehemently oppose as ge ... More >>

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Collections' Launch Party

Collections, Brooklyn's Newest Vintage Outpost, Brings a Bit of North Carolina to Bushwick

Last night, Collections, Bushwick's newest vintage outpost, hosted a formal opening party replete with a well-stocked mini bar and (maybe consequently) a decent portion of every street-style trendsetter and Jemima Kirke dress-alike ever to grace the Morgan L stop.

Oysters, Bushwick Restaurant Week, Comedy for Hunger: What To Do This Week

At the end of the week, we'll officially welcome summer. Ring it in with some off-beat food related happenings this week sure to be more interesting than firing up the grill again.

Why You Should Head to Bushwick Restaurant Week

Bushwick's seen a host of new restaurants move in over the course of the past couple of years, and there are clear signs that the growth will only continue. And so it was very strange when not a single one of the neighborhood's eateries made the roster of spots celebrating Brooklyn Restaurant Week a ... More >>

Guy Fieri on Roberta's, Bushwick Restaurant Week, and Knaidel in Today's Neighborhood News

Guy Fieri headed to Brooklyn over the weekend, and he had nice things to say about Roberta's, where he feasted with Mario Batali. That, free rides to Bushwick Restaurant Week, and a heart-warming special celebrating a spelling champ make today's round-up of neighborhood news.

Have You Seen This Bushwick Sexual Assault Suspect?

Because the NYPD has video this time. Police said that the suspect sexually assaulted two women roughly two months apart. During the first attack, which took place on February 1, the suspect grabbed a 39-year-old woman walking down Woodbine Street in Bushwick, pushed her down, and grabbed her brea ... More >>

Why Is Vito Lopez Thinking About Running for City Council?

Oh, Vito. Even amid an overshadowing investigation and unprecedented creepiness, the Daily News reported yesterday that former Assemblyman Vito Lopez has submitted a campaign committee claim with the state Board of Elections. He plans to run against Brooklyn Councilwoman Diane Reyna, who's legally ... More >>

Kale Tasting at Chez Khalessi; Sriracha Run in Bushwick

Monday, April 1 Kale-essi Tastings at Chez Khalessi Chez Khalessi, the new Game of Thrones-themed bar in Dumbo, already serves King Joffrey Juice and Sansa Screwdrivers. But the pub recently added new items to the dinner menu, and will be serving a "Kale-essi" tasting on Monday night, as a tribute t ... More >>

Where Was I Eating That Spicy, Sweet Kale Pizza? Roberta's!

Congratulations to JonDoe, who was the first to correctly guess that I was eating at Roberta's in Bushwick. The kale pizza was dotted with thick dollops of ricotta cheese that melted into the slightly burnt crust. Email us and we'll send you a cookbook. And check back next monday for another round ... More >>

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Trade in Your Guns and Ammo Today in Bushwick

As we have said before, no matter how much Americans love their guns, we are, in the end, a money-hungry people, which might explain why the last gun buyback program in Queens raked in 509 weapons off the streets.Well, once again, in an effort to rid a particular area of crime, you will be able to h ... More >>

Dressed Fries: Wave of the Future?

"Pollo al ajillo (over fries)" at El Mio Cid in Bushwick [See More Food Trending: Bacon Sushi | Where to Get: Souffle] French fries are ubiquitous in Gotham. You can get them plain with several shakes of salt, or gobbed with all sorts of condiments. But lately Fork in the Road has been seeing the ... More >>

Is The L Train Running? Yes, Much Better Now Actually

Every straphanger knows about the L train. The (in)famous line that connects the 14th Street corridor of Manhattan with its parallel neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bushwick and many other Brooklyn neighborhoods has its stories. For some, it is the public transportation reason why Brooklyn has r ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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:

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Time to Make the Lemonade

​Knickerbocker Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 1:14 p.m. (Click on image to enlarge.)

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Hieroglyphic Being

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 >>

The Van Goghs of Putt-Putt

Haul out the Stimpmeter—artists design two local miniature golf courses

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 >>

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.