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This Election, You’ll Rank Your Choices

This Election, You’ll Rank Your Choices

In a wide-open election, candidates in Brooklyn (and all over NYC) will be running on ranked ballots for the first time

Mextasis Featured Mexican American Voices At Bushwick Open Studios

Mextasis Featured Mexican American Voices At Bushwick Open Studios

A cross cultural collab.

Mark Your Calendars for the First Annual Plant-Based Bushwick Vegan Food Festival

Mark Your Calendars for the First Annual Plant-Based Bushwick Vegan Food Festival

Later this month, Bushwick is getting a vegan food + lifestyle festival, approriately named Plant-Based Bushwick

Opinion: Make Knickerbocker Car-Free

Opinion: Make Knickerbocker Car-Free

A local businessman makes the case for making Bushwick more of a pedestrian neighborhood.

The State of Voter Suppression in New York

The State of Voter Suppression in New York

Voter suppression still happens in New York “in insidious ways”

Calling All Parents! Here’s a List of (Mostly Free) After School Activities For Bushwick Kids

Calling All Parents! Here’s a List of (Mostly Free) After School Activities For Bushwick Kids

Looking to get your children involved in extracurricular activities? Need somewhere for them to be while you’re at work?

Here’s How 11 Bushwick Landmarks Got Their Names

Here’s How 11 Bushwick Landmarks Got Their Names

Maria Hernandez Park, Mominette, Wonderville, L’Imprimerie, Irving Avenue and more. Here’s how 11 of Bushwick’s most notable places got their names.

80 Years on the Plantation: Who We Really Are in Films  (1940 – 2020)

80 Years on the Plantation: Who We Really Are in Films (1940 – 2020)

80 Films by and about Black and Brown people you should know.

Paperboy Prince & Kathryn Garcia Exchange Pies & Ideas

Paperboy Prince & Kathryn Garcia Exchange Pies & Ideas

The pair of mayoral candidates met in Bushwick for one of Prince’s pie-flinging political conversations.

2020 Primary Race Primer: The North Brooklyn Candidates

2020 Primary Race Primer: The North Brooklyn Candidates

Information on the candidate’s you’ll see on your ballot. Be sure to cast your vote by Tuesday June 23, 2020!

PREMIERE: Talulah Paisley Shares Latest Single,”Penny”

PREMIERE: Talulah Paisley Shares Latest Single,”Penny”

The T-Rextasy front-person gives us the low down on her revitalized solo project, Talulah Paisley, and her latest single, “Penny.”

Reel Healing: Brooklyn Film Festival Provides an Outlet for Women of Color

Reel Healing: Brooklyn Film Festival Provides an Outlet for Women of Color

This year, the Reel Sisters Film Festival prioritizes holding space and healing in more than 40 diverse works.

INTERVIEW: Bushwick’s Holy Tunics Share Second Album, “Hit Parade Lemonade Supersonic Spree”

INTERVIEW: Bushwick’s Holy Tunics Share Second Album, “Hit Parade Lemonade Supersonic Spree”

The band dishes on the process behind making their latest record and much more!

Interview: The Mystery Lights Talk New Album, “Too Much Tension”

Interview: The Mystery Lights Talk New Album, “Too Much Tension”

Plus shows at Elsewhere, El Cortez, C’mon Everybody, and Our Wicked Lady

Local Disco Outfit Escort Welcomes New Lead Singer, Nicki B, for Their Third Album “City Life”

Local Disco Outfit Escort Welcomes New Lead Singer, Nicki B, for Their Third Album “City Life”

Plus, events at Alphaville, Sunnyvale, Secret Project Robot and more!

Interview: Big Eyes Set To Release Fourth Album, “Streets Of The Lost,” On April 5

Interview: Big Eyes Set To Release Fourth Album, “Streets Of The Lost,” On April 5

Plus, the best shows in Bushwick This Week

Bushwick’s TEEN Take The Reins On New Album”Good Fruit”

Bushwick’s TEEN Take The Reins On New Album”Good Fruit”

Plus, the best shows in Bushwick this week!

New York’s Primary is September 13th, Here’s Why Many Won’t Make It To The Polls

New York’s Primary is September 13th, Here’s Why Many Won’t Make It To The Polls

Familiar Sights Make Appearances in the New Bushwick-based Web Series “Katy in the Bush”

Familiar Sights Make Appearances in the New Bushwick-based Web Series “Katy in the Bush”

Comedian Katy Berry writes and stars in “Katy in the Bush.”

A Local Hospital Has Millions to Spend on Improvements. Any Ideas?

A Local Hospital Has Millions to Spend on Improvements. Any Ideas?

Sit down next Monday with New York State’s Commissioner of Public Health and tell him what changes you’d like to see in Bushwick’s health care coverage!

Applications for Summer Editorial Fellowship with Bushwick Daily Are Now Open!

Applications for Summer Editorial Fellowship with Bushwick Daily Are Now Open!

Are you passionate about writing and about Bushwick? Apply to Bushwick Daily’s summer editorial fellowship and enjoy both at the same time!

DIY Punk + Avant-Garde Music! Top 10 Shows This Weekend

DIY Punk + Avant-Garde Music! Top 10 Shows This Weekend

Dust off your Doc Martens and safety pins because things are getting pretty punk this weekend! And its the best kind: local, underground, and in venues that look like east London basements

Brave Bushwick Art Crit Group Says Hello to Spring with Politics, Poetry, Painting and Erotica

Brave Bushwick Art Crit Group Says Hello to Spring with Politics, Poetry, Painting and Erotica

The Bushwick Art Crit Group (BACG) celebrated its 1 year anniversary in March where we saw brave ranges in sculpture and politics, photography and poetry, painting and erotica, and more. One artist impressed us with a combination of seriousness and playfulness, while another bravely revealed just how much goes on underneath the (canvas) surface.  An inquisitive […]

Tempting Art Picks for the Weekend

Tempting Art Picks for the Weekend

Might I encounter the rousing side of Bushwick in this weekend’s top art picks? As I share the sexy side of our artsy enclave on this week’s #BushwickDaily Insta-Takeover, I am tempted to untap the sultry, suprising or bravely sensual side of the neighborhood art scene. Whether blatant or subtle, upfront or shyly concealed, I’ll […]

Rheingold Brewery Rezoning: City Planning Commission Shocked by the Lack of Community Involvement

Rheingold Brewery Rezoning: City Planning Commission Shocked by the Lack of Community Involvement

At around noon yesterday, the City Planning Commission of NYC met to discuss a wide-range of city projects, including the rezoning of Rheingold Brewery in Bushwick

Recording Studio The Fort Brooklyn is Throwing a Black Tie Rock’n’Roll Benefit

Recording Studio The Fort Brooklyn is Throwing a Black Tie Rock’n’Roll Benefit

The Fort, located on 28 Locust St, is one of the coolest recording studios we’ve stumbled upon in Bushwick

The Best of SXSW + A Free Playlist!

The Best of SXSW + A Free Playlist!

It may seem like quite a while ago at this point but the world’s best indie festival, South By Southwest, was just a few weeks past, March 12-16, and everyone in the music industry will continue to feel its repercussions all year, especially those from Brooklyn! From the bands that made it big to those that seemed to crash and burn, everyone who attended took away some great musical memories, including Bushwick Daily! We had three writers (Danielle Thompson, Ileana Little, and yours truly) hanging out in Austin, snapping instagrams, taking notes, and absorbing everything we heard

French Bistro Mominette is Bushwick’s Best New Restaurant

French Bistro Mominette is Bushwick’s Best New Restaurant

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

Killing Time with Elizabeth Theis

Killing Time with Elizabeth Theis

Monsters, both in the figurative and literal sense, have been utilized worldwide in cultures for millenniums

Pancakes, Photography, Passion, and Re-Invention: A Sunday Afternoon with Hadar Pitchon

Pancakes, Photography, Passion, and Re-Invention: A Sunday Afternoon with Hadar Pitchon

“I think Bushwick has definitely inspired me since I moved here. I find it is hard edged, gritty and yet still there are places where art can catch your eye. The best analogy I can think of is that sidewalk where it is all concrete then there is that one little flower growing through the […]

Electronic Music in a Bushwick Backyard

Electronic Music in a Bushwick Backyard

Text and Photos by Maria Gotay

Bollywood in Bushwick!

Bollywood in Bushwick!

By Katarina Hybenova

4 Ways Occupy Wall St. Has Already Succeeded

4 Ways Occupy Wall St. Has Already Succeeded

Since the beginning of the Occupation, there has been a war of perception for Occupiers to fight on two fronts

Bushwick’s Favorite GILF!

Bushwick’s Favorite GILF!

By Terri Ciccone