All photos courtesy of Smart Beer/Instagram The craft beer game has been riding a wave of popularity this decade and New York is no exception. Every city wears their pride for local breweries the same way people cherish their home sports teams and music scenes. Smart Beer, New York’s first and only organic beer producer, […]

beer book image Earlier this week we talked about how booze is eating up sizeable portions of our monthly budgets. One way to avoid that is to drink less (but who are we kidding)  or drink smartly (now I’m talking, I know). It turns out that during this very special time of the year (think V-Day […]

Inside Finback Brewery (All photos by Bart Koscinski for Bushwick Daily). New York summer madness seems to have gotten the best of me, so this is my first column in a couple of weeks. But hopefully I’ve got things under control now and will be sharing biweekly beer things with you again. A few weeks […]

video by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily There’s a new watering hole on Knickerbocker, brought to you from some of the dudes of Pearl’s Social and Billy Club and Oak and Iron. But this place has a little more down-home cozy feel: the kind of place you feel comfortable enough at to get a little too […]

Safety concerns and money mixups now plague a luxury housing development In Bushwick

Here’s the definitive round-up of where to prove your brain is the biggest.

With a tagline of “Probably Brooklyn’s Best Music Festival,” Gigawatts organizers, the team behind bi-monthly music magazine 1.21 Gigawatts, are not so humble about the quality of their event- and for good reason! The lineup in completely bangin’, featuring the best of the punk, rock, garage- and even pop and rap!- scenes from Brooklyn and beyond. […]

All photos by Maria Gotay for Bushwick Daily The neighborhood is changing. Often for better, sometimes for worse. For every narrow coffee shop with divine breakfast sandwiches, for every Scotch egg, for every craft beer that makes the Bushwick rounds: another neighborhood stalwart closes its eyes for the last time. Goodbye Blue Monday has been […]

Okay, let’s be real: Bushwick Daily has officially been crushing on Paul Rome for years now

This week the Bushwick art scene settles down slightly, giving us a little bit of a breather after the nonstop openings and art crawls of the fall

By Frances Gill, Allison Galgiani with illustration by Jeremy Nguyen

Bushwick faithful, we have a real treat for you this weekend! The annual Brooklyn Vintage Crawl is happening this Saturday, Nov 2 from Noon-8pm. That means massive discounts on vintage threads and tasty spirits will be sprawled across the ever growing Brooklyn shops/bars scene. This is a self-guided shop and bar hop through Williamsburg and […]

The good news about Bushwick’s new brewery Braven Brewing Company just got better

CMJ has come and gone in a fury of five booze-fueled days

Feeling like you need a little more poetry in your life? Or just looking for something both cool and smart to do this Sunday night? Then make sure to check out the launch party for the Pine Box Reading Series this upcoming Sunday, October 13th at Mellow Pages, one of our beloved Bushwick bookstores

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Parquet Courts. All Photos by Maria Gotay for Bushwick Daily. Listen, up Bushwick, we’ve got a music recommendation for you. Brooklyn-via Texas alt & punk band Parquet Courts is here to buzz around in your lobes. I caught the 4-piece last week at Williamsburg DIY Venue Death By Audio where their sound inspired heavy boozing, […]

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By Therese Maher and Maria Gotay