“I’m not going to be a NIMBY about it,” says one local bar owner.

After 11 years of service work, Carolina Hernandez, a Guatemalan immigrant, has opened Tikal Café on the corner of Decatur and Knickerbocker.

The neighborhood’s beloved coffee, brunch, and wine destination makes a splash at its new Canadian location.

Opening up a new establishment — particularly in Bushwick — can be daunting. The influx of new eateries and bars largely contributes to the neighborhood’s constantly-evolving landscape, and those changes are a perennial subject of contention in the neighborhood and beyond. For business owners, however, the facts remain: while some new ventures in Bushwick succeed, others accordingly fail. […]

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Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of being the first of the Bushwick Daily family to try Mominette, a new French Restaurant that opened at 221 Knickerbocker on the corner of Troutman

A mother with a baby in a sling walked in

By Katarina Hybenova

By Chris Heuberger

It was at least 200 degrees outside and a real estate broker just took me and my roommate to be to see the scariest apartment in Bushwick you can imagine