The new law, sponsored by Sen. Julia Salazar, allows loft tenants to seek redress in housing court when their essential services like heat and water are neglected or denied.

Here’s a roundup of the housing cases brought against Bushwick landlords this past year.

The comprehensive lists and maps show exact locations of buildings, putting more information into the hands of city residents.

Commercial closures in gentrifying neighborhoods are often caused by landlords harassing tenants into breaking leases so they can find a tenant with deeper pockets.

Hundreds of Bushwick residents take to the streets today to protest deplorable living conditions faced by members of our own community

Oh, you know how Bushwick is so cool and hot at the same time that it regularly gets mentioned at all sorts of lists like the recent Vogue’s list of the coolest neighborhoods in the world? So today Bushwick made another list — albeit a less flattering one — 2015 Worst Landlord List

Ask any New Yorker about a bad experience with a landlord, and they’ll probably have a story or two to tell

A glimpse of justice was experienced yesterday by the tenants of several Bushwick buildings owned by the infamous landlord brothers, Joel and Aaron Israel

Around 100 Bushwick residents gathered around apartment buildings where long-term residents have been complaining about landlord harassment and rallied in defense of their tenants rights on Sunday April 6, 2014

“It’s not about a ceasefire or not about not a ceasefire”

Bushwick’s city council rep says informed tenants are better tenants.

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

A self-proclaimed “dyke bar for the queers” opens in Bushwick

Scenes among “a discoherent group of young people making a discoherent collection of art”

Ahead of intense negotiations over the New York state budget, Dilan’s former primary opponent says the assemblyman can’t be found.

There’s a lot of history in these streets we call home. Take a second to look back at the 400-year history of Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Nicole De Santis, co-founder of Clean Bushwick Initiative, has a solution.

Look up and support your local community garden in providing sustenance and critical green space.

What exactly are your rights as a tenant in this city, and what are the legal obligations of landlords?

Two local city council candidates say how they would change how police operate in local communities.

A local city council candidate makes the case for alternatives to big real estate

From the life and times of ‘the original Bushwick beatnik’

After 11 years of service work, Carolina Hernandez, a Guatemalan immigrant, has opened Tikal Café on the corner of Decatur and Knickerbocker.

Whoever wins in June will have to decide what to do about the NYCHA deficit

A guide to the candidates running to represent New York’s District 34

Antonio Reynoso’s campaign could finally bring the largely ceremonial political crown to North Brooklyn.

Local nonprofit helps tenants fight against housing displacement, landlord harassment, and gentrification