‘It’s frustrating when you’re playing by the rules and your opponent is cheating,’ Salazar says of Andy Marte’s primary challenge
A lot of buzz has been building around the upcoming Exchange Rates, and it is finally here this week! The international expo is an entirely new model for Bushwick, bringing galleries from all over the country and the world to share in the artistic zeitgeist of Bushwick
Happy HAPPY Friday!!! Here are the highlights of this weeks happenings from the Arts in Bushwick blog!
The Rolo’s people take over the Acre. Of course, the chips and guac are $16.
“It’s not about a ceasefire or not about not a ceasefire”
A local concierge says she prefers “visitors” to “tourists” and takes us on a trip through Ridgewood.
Two meatless spots on Knickerbocker closed their doors, but Seitan’s Helper say they’re not going anywhere
After a run at Fringe Festival, Maggie Crane returns to Bushwick with her tales of ‘death, disability and dunkin donuts’
Ridgewood now has its own enthusiastic group of runners
A highlight from last month’s Bushwick Film Festival was a debut feature from a Brooklyn dance director.
Local hardcore bands play a free show in support of a ceasefire in Gaza
“It’s really a who’s who of these Bushwick bands.”
Riding a year of hype, a hip hop group rolls in Brooklyn
After repeatedly meeting up over soup in a Bushwick playground, a TikTok influencer is now calling it quits on that idea
A week after re-opening, local skaters take to one of their old haunting grounds.
The west coast rapper headlined the Bushwick Collective’s annual block party and brought a few friends.
Beach Fossils play a packed house at TV Eye
Scenes among “a discoherent group of young people making a discoherent collection of art”
How a flurry of small businesses are changing a corner of Queens
“They patronize us and we patronize them”
A new techno club opens in Bushwick
A Parquet Courts frontman fills up a DIY spot in Ridgewood.
“I love you TV Eye people,” says the ‘Sopranos’ and ‘White Lotus’ star.
Years after hosting COVID-era ragers, the former ‘Illhouse’ now hosts poetry readings.
A local businessman makes the case for making Bushwick more of a pedestrian neighborhood.
Here’s at least seven more local spots to find plant-based food
After years putting brisket in pho, the people behind Lucy’s are now putting it in tacos.
The chef behind the well-reviewed Eyval says he wants to introduce “Iranians to a different way to look at their food.”
New Yorkers saw 52% more hate crimes in 2021 than in 2020.
Tinashe, Shygirl, Vanessa Vanjie and a cannon of condoms explode in Bushwick
Redistricting moves and scatters a heated political race, while Elizabeth Crowley has committed to moving within the borders of wherever it is she ends up representing.
Onderdonk & Sons is dead, long live Mia Marie’s.
“I was able to let go of my grip,” the owner of one French restaurant in Bushwick says
Bob Holden gets Eric Adams’ new transportation department head to make an early appearance on a busy intersection in Queens
Streets in Bushwick may be subject to dangerous lead exposure. Because of the quiet stripping of 2018 legislation by former governor Andrew Cuomo, the extent of the problem remains largely unknown. A Bushwick Daily investigation.