Over the past year, many Bushwick restaurants teamed up with an app called Too Good to Go to fight food waste, attract new customers and offer inexpensive food.

Bushwick is home to several black-owned cafes and restaurants. Supporting them helps the community as surely as a protest or sharply worded letter to a Congressman.

Bushwick coffee shop Milk & Pull opens a larger second location on a busy block in Ridgewood.

A nice cup of hot beverage, a warm conversation with a friend, a guilty bite into a pastry

By Polly Brewster, Laure Nouraout, Essie Graham & Katarina Hybenova