Bushwick

It's Blighty Brooklyn at Dear Bushwick

Jessica Wilson cooks a spot of English for Bushwick

SO HARDCORE

A look back at a decade of NYC rock

"Like Tumblr Times A Million": Chippy Nonstop on Her Summer in NYC

Chippy Nonstop is fast emerging as Kreayshawn's new BFF. Based in the Bay Area, the diminutive rapstress saw her profile bump earlier this year when Kreayshawn directed the video for her "Kicked Out Da Club" track. Now she's on the road with Kreay and Rye Rye for the Group Hug tour, which touches do ... More >>

ISN’T SHE LOVELY?

Get dolled up for Bushwig

Karen Marston + Kerry Law

This Week In The Voice: The Unexpected Rebirth Of The EP

In this week's Village Voice, out now: Michaelangelo Matos examines the state of the EP, a format of recorded music that's become more popular for artists of all genres—from R&B singer Miguel (above) to country superstar Dierks Bentley—looking to keep up in the digital age. Also, Brian C ... More >>

The Top Ten DIY Venues In New York City

In New York's chaotic do-it-yourself music ecosystem, nothing is a given. A venue might combust as suddenly as easily a new one might spring up, making this list obsolete—yet that volatility is part of the venues' inherent uncivilized appeal. Who's to say where the next bunch of longhairs migh ... More >>

A Youth Stabbing and Deadly Fire Last Night in Bushwick

The past few weekends have been a little rough for Brooklyn residents. Last Saturday, we reported on a deadly accident that happened in Sheepshead Bay and a police officer who might have been over the legal limit to drive in Brooklyn Heights. This week, our attention shifts to th ... More >>

'Reconstryct' w/ Lost+Commodo+Joe Nice

Bicyclist Hit By Truck and Killed in East Williamsburg

​According to police, a 30-year-old man was struck and killed by a truck on Meserole Street and Morgan Avenue last night around midnight. Cops have determined that the man was biking alongside a flatbed truck that made a right turn; as the truck turned, it hit the biker. His identity hasn't be ... More >>

Secret Project Robot Is Relocating To Bushwick

courtesy Secret Project RobotA benefit for SWOON at Secret Project Robot. ​While the various crews at Monster Island prep for the building's final Block Party this weekend, the collective's flagship Secret Project Robot gallery is gearing up for a move into deeper Bushwick. By the time the wre ... More >>

Live: The Rock Yard Persists In Bushwick

by Chris Chafin Karen Plemons​Rock Yard: The Growlers, Japanther, The Death Set, Cerebral Ballzy, The So So Glos, CSC Funk Band The Morgan Sunday, August 7 Better than: The all-ages punk shows you went to in middle school. Standing in the dirt parking lot of The Morgan in Bushwick for yest ... More >>

A Brief Guide to Some "Gay" Foods Around Town

flickr/Sifu RenkaShrimp tempura apparently equals gay ​What better way to celebrate Gay Pride week than eating some gay foods? But, what, exactly, constitutes gay food? Honestly, there isn't such a thing. So let's just go by name alone. Behold some of the city's "gay" dishes. Whether the g ... More >>

DEAD ALIVE

Zombies in Buswick

Williamsburg Hipster Trailer Park Shut Down

​For the second time, the Meserole Street warehouse that's home to an "artist community/trailer park called "The Nut Factory," has been shuttered by city inspectors, though residents still claim they're in the clear. "I don't know what the Fire Department considers unsafe now," one of the resi ... More >>

Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Dre Day, Heavy Carnivale, Fantasy Love Affair, And Meat Beat Manifesto

​If you're looking for an early start to your night (and a whole lot of bass), head to the Bless Up! happy hour at Brooklyn's Halcyon. Every Thursday, the tiny record store that caters to lovers of techno, house, drum 'n' bass, and so forth hosts an in-store BYOB hang that features local DJs a ... More >>

Pix From Cholulita Bella Deli in Brooklyn

​The well-stuffed carne enchilada cemita -- reeking of papalo leaves -- at Cholulita Deli. This week, Counter Culture slides into Cholulita Bella Deli, under the J and M tracks on the border of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy. The food is fabulous, and cheap, too, mostly representing an unreconstructe ... More >>

More On Jeff Mangum's Bushwick Show: Co-Organizer Ben Goldberg Explains Why You Weren't There

This is pretty much what it was like​So Jeff Mangum played a bunch of Neutral Milk Hotel songs in a Bushwick loft on Saturday night, for a crowd of around 75 people, you not among them. The show was partly set up by Ba Da Bing Records guru Ben Goldberg, who has a lot of explaining to do, so we ... More >>

DEAD IS THE NEW BLACK

Halloween may be over, but the dead live on

Williamsburg Drug Dealers Now Literally Ripping Off Customers

​As if the price one pays for drugs isn't enough -- a habit of criminal indulgence at $50 for a little under an eighth -- it now appears your drug dealers are going to gouge you for even more cash these days by just....straight-up robbing you.

Electric Zoo, Fat Beats, And The Parked Food Truck Festival Headline Your (Long!) Weekend In Nightlife

​Ah, Labor Day weekend. Your last chance to wear white pants and white sandals (though my best friend tells me they're awful all year round). As for your weekend partying, skip the beach -- summer isn't over until the 22nd, so you still have time. Instead, welcome back NYC's nightlife and stay ... More >>

Today in Insects: The Return of West Nile

​ It's an itchy week in New York. First bedbugs, now this: poison mosquitoes. City Room is reporting today that West Nile virus, which you'd probably forgotten about, is back in action. It's been found in Old Town on Staten Island, East Williamsburg/Bushwick (run, hipsters!), and South Jamai ... More >>

Phantogram

Insurgent Theatre+John Fell Ryan+chaos*CM*majik

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​Leaf peeper map of NYS What little there is left, we have here, and we're at peak leaf (according to the News, we owe that information to the city's official foliage monitor, Cori Carl). Local foliage tours are here.

Power Plays by Party Boss Vito Lopez

The Lord of Brooklyn, a Democratic powerbroker who is flexing his political muscles these days like a gym rat pumping the free weights

This Week in the Voice

​School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session. When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>

A Place To Bury Strangers' Oliver Ackermann Tells You How To Get Out of That Nasty Bushwick Lease

Scott Spychalski for the Kansas City Pitch There's been a tide of pre-emptive nostalgia for The Onion lately, given that America's Finest News Source ceased publishing two West Coast print editions last month and still manages to invent magnificent puns like Bonotheism. So it's in that spirit that ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Bushwick Rallies Against Hate Crimes

Washington Post Discovers Bushwick Has Galleries, a "Creative Streak"

New York Housing In Free-Fall; Opportunities for "Cash-Heavy Investors"

What's For Dinner?

Freeking Out at the Pharoh Café

Maverick Egyptian in Queens wants to sell you a bidet

Scenes from the Bushwick Pride Parade

ART ATTACK

Get lost in Judith Supine’s maze

The Second Battle of Bushwick

Thirty years after the blackout riots, it's getting hot all over again

In da Club

Trouble in Store

Workers at a Brooklyn grocery say they're not paid fairly, if at all.

Saturday 7/22

Postmodern Pioneer: The Next Generation

Bokaer gets physical, digital, and naked

Close-Up on Bushwick, Brooklyn

Sip Manhattans Before Teeing Off at a Members Only Bar

Remember When

There was garbage on the street and people were lying on the ground

In Your Face: Stillness and Frenzy, Brooklyn as Siberia

It's a Wrap

Close-Up on Bushwick

Partly Renovated Loft in Former Knitting Factory

Anatomy of a Drug Craze

Why Tough Laws Can't Claim Credit for Beating Back Crack