Image found on Instagram by user @Hannah_Bear “Our favorite pizza joint made this just for us. Haha.Amazing @goodoldwar #fuckbushwick #robertaspizza #nyc #philly #foodporn”

Roberta’s unpaid farming internships and the infamous Fuck You flyers have caused a lot of discussion about the (im)morality of such unpaid experience. Most of our readers agreed in a poll that Roberta’s behavior was shameful and exploitative. The debate has been continuing also elsewhere on the Internet. While NY Mag found apologies for Roberta’s behaviour, International Business Times said a resolute no.  Here at Bushwick Daily, we are excited that a Bushwick restaurant owner, Jeff Pan from Skytown, decided to share his opinion on the matter and is speaking from an employer’s and former intern’s prospective. We consider Jeff’s letter to be an invaluable addition to the discussion, and are welcoming your constructive opinions as well. Jeff Pan writes:

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Sorry, Roberta’s. We tried to find some reasonable explanation for your unpaid farming internships but the overwhelming majority of our readers voted in our yesterday’s poll that you deserve the angry “Fuck you” from the flyer. Anyhow, maybe to befriend the public again, to make us forget, or simply to make use of the recent hype (any press is a good press, right?), Roberta’s announced the date of this year’s block party on their Tumblr. The Bushwick Block Party is going down on July 27th, 2013. So look forward to the enormous lines, maybe some free pizza and people from the city who have heard of Roberta’s and decided to come to Bushwick for a day, per usual. We’ll keep you posted about the details once it gets closer.

Roberta’s Farm (photo via Roberta’s Tumblr: http://robertas.tumblr.com/)

The internet is exploding! New York’s favorite restaurant, Roberta’s Pizza has posted an ad offering an unpaid internship to work at their farm, DNAinfo writes. Somebody got really pissed off and posted these flyers all around the Morgantown giving a big “Fuck you” to a restaurant that hosted the Clintons but cannot pay for a part-time intern job. We want to know what you think, Bushwick.

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This gif was clearly not created in Bushwick. (via flick.com)

In December, you can easily find me running around and peeking into every single Holiday market stand, sipping egg nog directly from the box, inhaling the smell of live Christmas trees by the Morgan L stop and dragging my boyfriend under every single mistletoe (“What do you mean that that branch is not a mistletoe? MUAH!”). In other words, I am a holiday sucker. Big time.

If you feel similarly, I am sure that you will more than appreciate the number of holiday markets popping up around our beloved pigeon town. At Bushwick Daily, we counted five of them happening in the upcoming two weeks. Make sure to check them out, take a big sip of the holiday atmosphere and support local vendors by shopping for presents there!

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Yup. Photo by @thebedouin via Gothamist

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In case you are the last person in Bushwick who hasn’t heard yet, Roberta’s was closed on Friday night. Yes, Bill and Hillary Clintons dined there. That’s why.

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Bushwick Daily is doing a round up of all of the best things that the sweaty, raining, raunchy, stinky and still sweet summer of ’12 had to offer. I thought long and hard about what’s been best this summer. Photography has dominated our homepage, but more interesting is seeing what all of YOU have been capturing out there in Bushwick this summer on your Instagram. I searched using Statigram, a great Instagram photo viewer, by tag #BUSHWICK and found almost 22,000 images. Most recently, there are over 200 instagram images tagged Bushwick each DAY. Holy moly, that’s a lot of content to sort through. Skylines, graffiti, tattoos, food and drinks, streetlife, and beautiful faces dominate the feed.

Have you seen our instagram by the way? You should definitely FOLLOW us (@bushwickdaily) for shots of art, food, music, kittens, street art and of course, incredibly attractive people.

That said, here is the BEST OF SUMMER (well, mostly August): Bushwick Instagram.

Best Rooftop Shot:

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By Katarina Hybenova

The look at the weekly events in Bushwick, Ridgewood and East Williamsburg has to warm one’s heart. There are SO many great events this week! I am glad I can tell you already on Wednesday to save your energy for Saturday because a lucky coincidence has it that there are at least six fantastic events that ought to be attended and enjoyed by all the Bushwickians! We will party in the streets, drink lotsa beer, listen to good music and meet many great people. Who knows, maybe we will even party naked…

#1 Breakout Sessions Music Fest @ DeliquencyNYC (Saturday 3pm-1am)

MANY cases of sleepless nights have been reported in Bushwick since we published our awesome preview of new DIY music venue, Deliquency. Yes, we want to go as badly as you. This Saturday, Deliquency is opening their doors for the first time to the public, already at 3pm with a super-fun line up of bands (Grand Rapids, The Yellow Dogs, Dust Engineers, Lost Boy?, Murals, Roadside Graves, Bambara, Gunfight!, Osekre & The Lucky Bastards, Red Bedlam. Additionally, Brooklyn Brewery sponsored two open bar sessions – at 3-5pm and 9-11pm! The event is donation-based ($10 advance/ $12 door is a suggested donation).

#2 Roberta’s Block Party (Saturday at 3pm)

Of course you can’t miss Roberta’s Block Party. There will be concerts (Your Youth, Iyez, Naam, Soft Spot, Gang Signs, Wild Yaks, MC Todd Experience, Heems from Das Racist, headliner Andrew W.K & more), delicious food,  Tiki Disco, free suspicious mole screenings done by Dr. Bobby Buka AND so much more we had to write a separate article about it.

#3 Bring Yourself @ Small Black Door (Saturday, 5pm)

We haven’t heard from Small Black Door in a couple of months, and yes, we missed it! This cool DIY gallery in Ridgewood has now prepared a gathering of its friends and invited them to …bring themselves. Yes, this luck-of-the-draw cum art-swap invites you to bring in something, preferably hand-made, reminiscent of your practice and spirit and leave with a piece of someone else’s. Our favorite DJ and a Bushwick Daily Radio host jojoSOUL will be spinning some of his summer finest. Don’t miss it!

#4 Bushwick/Ridgewood Flea Market @ Onderdonk House (Saturday, 11-4pm)

Charming, old Dutch farm house, surrealistically located between the warehouses of Flushing Ave, is inviting everyone to their Flea Market. Over 55 vendors, hot food, cool people and live music sound like a lot of fun. Park on the street or on the fence if you come biking.

#5 Brooklyn Based Pub Crawl – The Total Bushwick Immersion

One of our favorite Brooklyn blogs, Brooklyn Based is organizing a self-guided pub crawl in our lovely pigeon town. The fellow bloggers are promising rivers of FREE Brooklyn Summer Ale and some Instagram fun! But! The trick is to come out at noon, which let’s face it, might be a problem on a Saturday Than grab a lucky drinking card (quickly, because they only have 500 of them) at Tradesman or Pine Box Rock Shop. With a card like that you can drink at selected Bushwick bars until the supply lasts. At 4pm everyone is invited to Tandem for an afterparty with $3 beers. Thank you Brooklyn Based for keeping us nice and mellow (aka drunk on Brooklyn Summer Ale) since early morning

#6 OS Mutantes @ The Well is CANCELLED
The second show at a gigantic awesome music venue The Well has been cancelled due to the illness of the artist. We hope that the Brazillian rock legends will get better soon, but also we’re kinda thankful we can go see them some other day.

By Asha Chagoyen

It’s been a long time since I got excited to go to a party because of its promo video. Flashing lights, color, and yelling through my computer screen is a way to make this little lady attend your fiesta. This year’s third annual Bushwick Block Party’s promo video has been that incentive to attend the 3rd annual Bushwick Block Party. The festivities will be held on  Saturday, July 28th from noon to midnight at Roberta’s (ya know, that small pizza joint on Moore St.) and sponsored by Vans, Vitamin Water, and several local businesses. So ladies and Gentlemen, mark your calendars to have some fun.

Besides the party’s epically awesome promo video, the Bushwick Block Party will have not one but two musical stages with performances by Your Youth, Iyez, Naam, Soft Spot, Gang Signs, Wild Yaks, MC Todd Experience, Heems from Das Racist, headliner Andrew W.K, plus many more performances. All of the acts are from the New York City area.

If the musical performances aren’t worth your while to attend the Bushwick Block Party. I hope delicious food like Crif Dogs, Bunna Cafe, Momo Sushi Shack, Aracini Brothers, and other food vendors will change your mind. And, I must not forget, from 12-2 there will be free slices of margherita pizza. Aside from the food and music the block party will have Water World, Photobooth by Ryan Slack and much more fun activities for you kiddies.

Partying in the streets isn’t the only thing you can do, Roberta’s will be having an exclusive Tiki Disco featuring Knife Show, Max Sussman, Andy Pry Ortega, and much more musical talent.

If you happen not be travelling the world this summer and will be in the Bushwick area come to the Bushwick Block Party at 261 Moore St. and have some wicked fun!!!

UPDATE: We were additionally informed, for all you friendly folks that think they have a suspicious mole, there will be free suspicious mole screenings done by Dr. Bobby Buka. I hope this is another reason for you to attend.

By Katarina Hybenova

A map of Bushwick according to NY Times.

Bushwick is not only a neighborhood in New York. It is a living organism that changes dynamically as the time passes every couple of months. It seems that the emotional landscape of the neighborhood reacts extremely sensitively to any kind of a development; sometimes just an idea is enough. What was true yesterday can be very different tomorrow.

What causes the change?  And more importantly will the change be to the benefit of all of the people living here? I certainly hope so. Is it even possible that everyone benefits from a change? Can you reasonably ask for a neighborhood not to change?  I know that the media are not a direct cause of a change but nobody can deny that they have a huge influence. Mainly, when a source like NY Times drops a word about the neighborhood, a community matter suddenly becomes a matter of interest to the entire city, sometimes even the entire world.

Photo by Evan Sung

Here are some of the articles that NY Times wrote about Bushwick and what followed after them.

[dropcap]#1 Psst… Have You Heard About Bushwick?[/dropcap]

 Published on March 5, 2006 (by Robert Sullivan)

When the world heard about Bushwick for the first time….

 What was it about?

In March 2006, Magazine of The NY Times brought an article focusing mostly on real estate development in the neighborhood. The Times followed a Bushwick realtor, Tom Le, who described Bushwick as the next new neighborhood where you can still buy a family house for $500K. The article also talks about the first “cool” places that opened in the area: Life Café, Brooklyn Natural, Northeast Kingdom, Archive Café, Chez Bushwick…

You can read about the first artists who came to the neighborhood and remodeled industrial buildings into artist studios. It also mentions a predecessor to Bushwick Open Studios, Bushwick Art Project.

What happened after?

At least two dozens of “cool” places opened in the area: restaurants, cafes, bars. Sometimes it seems that a new bar opens every day.

Bushwick Art Project is dead, and we are celebrating 6th birthday of Bushwick Open Studios, a huge event to promote local art that was born shortly after Brooklyn Art Project ceased to exist.

Oddly enough, you can still buy a family house in Bushwick for $500K. Blame/ thank to the recession of 2008.

[dropcap]#2 A Bushwick Mansion Where Music Fills the Halls[/dropcap]

Published on July 16, 2010 (by Constance Rosenblum)

The Times called Bushwick the coolest place on Earth…

What was it about?

Real Estate section of The Times brought this optimistic article celebrating reinessance men and women living in Cedar House in Bushwick.  It was 2010, and the writed called Bushwick the coolest neighborhood in the world. The Times visited Cedar House on Bushwick Ave inhabited by young and creative people with lotsa interests. The original resident of Cedar House, Ben Shapiro walked the Times writer through the personal histories of the inhabitants, and thorough the events they organize in  Cedar House. The Times was very excited about these guys.

What happened after?

The line about Bushwick being the coolest place on the planet pissed off several people. However, I have to second that, and yes, I think Bushwick is still the coolest place on the planet. Maybe not in the Morgantown area anymore, but there is still a lot of cool things and inspiring people living here. Also, places like Cedar House where residents happily open their doors to musicians and artists and fellow Bushwickians still exist.

[dropcap]#3  JUSTEN LADDA: ‘7 Mirrors and a Nose’ [/dropcap]

Published on December 16, 2010 (by Ken Johnson)

The first review of a Bushwick gallery art show in NY Times!

What was it about?

Ken Johnson was the first Times critic ever to review an art show in Bushwick. Justen Lada: 7 Mirrors and A Nose, was a show on view in Storefront gallery. This short write up appeared in Arts Beat, the Times art blog, which generally writes about experimental topics (at least according to the Times measures).

What happened after?

After this review, the Times art critics lost fear of Bushwick basement/apartment galleries, and many other art spaces celebrated a write up in NY Times. Absolutely well-deserved. Also nothing sells out a show like a shiny review, therefore in the name of support of local arts, please NY Times, come more often!

[dropcap]#4 Roberta’s[/dropcap]

Published on August 23, 2011 (by Sam Sifton)

Bushwick pizza joint Roberta’s gets a review in NY Times…

What was it about?

Roberta’s, originally a hip low-key pizza place received 2 stars from poshy Times food critic.  The review took us on an amusing journey of what a Times writer thinks of a Bushwick resident’s afternoon (….collapsing into the room after a long afternoon or evening of dancing or making art…), but also talked about some interesting facts of the restaurant’s operation and food preparation (Mr. Mirarchi uses meat glue to join two breasts into a more manageable rectangle, then presses the result overnight to set the bond.)

What happened after?

Roberta’s used to be great. I will never forget my first time there.  After a photo-assistant gig, I was tired but happy biting into a delicious slice of pizza sitting on a wood bench, and everything felt so Bushwick… Well, this is over now.  Less and less of the reasonable Bushwicians are willing to wait two hours for a table. Also the crowd is not what it used to be… Artists at Roberta’s are more likely to be waiting the tables than having a dinner. Don’t get me wrong, the fame of Roberta’s is well deserved (organic farm, radio station, blah blah), but it’s just too much. It’s not Bushwick anymore.

[dropcap]#5 Next Stop, Bushwick[/dropcap]

Published on March 7, 2012 (by Jed Lipinski)

The most recent Times article celebrated 56 Bogart building.

What was it about?

Six years and two days after The Times brought Psst… Have You Heard About Bushwick?, Fashion & Style section of  NY Times, published a cover story about Bushwick as the next gallery district. We all read it and frantically shared on our social media, with a cocktail of feelings (1 part of pride, 1 part of wondering about all the things they got wrong; 1 part wondering what the future of our block will be).

Next stop, Bushwick talks about new galleries that sprung all over the neighborhood lately, and dedicates the most of its attention to the 56 Bogart building. In fact the article implies that 56 Bogart is the center of the universe. The building has only recently undergone quite a big transformation. Originally a textile factory was like many other industrial buildings in the neighborhood, turned into an artist studio building, but unlike the rest of the buildings it was turned into a gallery mall in the last 6 months.  A concept unseen in Bushwick, but frequent elsewhere, puts a number of galleries under one roof, has been perceived by the Bushwickians as bitter sweet. On one hand, you can’t deny the energy that a concentration of art spaces brings, and the openings at 56 Bogart tend to be epic.  On the other hand, DIY feel so beautiful about Bushwick, has definitely evaporated when you come in. The galleries at 56 Bogart are still quite cool, but I suggest The Times to venture to an opening at apartment galleries Centotto or Norte Maar or street art gallery Factory Fresh. I guarantee crowds comparable to those attending openings at 56 Bogart.

What happened after?

Only time will tell.