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Supporters of New NYC Noncitizen Voting Law Respond to Legal Challenges

Supporters of New NYC Noncitizen Voting Law Respond to Legal Challenges

The Our City, Our Vote law grants an estimated 800,000 NYC legal permanent residents the ability to vote in municipal elections, becoming the largest expansion of voting rights in the nation’s recent history. A lawsuit filed in Staten Island by the RNC puts its legality to the test.

It is Now Illegal To Threaten To Report Undocumented Immigrants to ICE

It is Now Illegal To Threaten To Report Undocumented Immigrants to ICE

Bushwick’s Sen. Salazar says “This is good” but pushes for more steps to “protect immigrant New Yorkers from ICE.”

Bushwick Community Fair Offers Free Legal Counseling and Tenants Rights Services this August

Bushwick Community Fair Offers Free Legal Counseling and Tenants Rights Services this August

El Puente in partnership with Assemblywoman Davila, is hosting a free Bushwick & Williamsburg CommUNITY Resource Fair on Saturday, August 24, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Maria Hernandez Park.

Local Legislators Team Up With Tech Startup To Legalize Electronic Scooters In NYC

Local Legislators Team Up With Tech Startup To Legalize Electronic Scooters In NYC

The scooters are supposed to help take burden off the MTA system in lieu of the upcoming L train shutdown.

Goat Yoga Is Illegal and Isn’t Coming to Bushwick Anymore

Goat Yoga Is Illegal and Isn’t Coming to Bushwick Anymore

A Bushwick Cafe Is the Only Place Serving Legal, Marijuana-Infused Coffee in New York City Right Now

A Bushwick Cafe Is the Only Place Serving Legal, Marijuana-Infused Coffee in New York City Right Now

Two Bushwick Cafes Serve Kratom Tea, a Legal Drink That Can Ease Chronic Pain and Opiate Withdrawal

Two Bushwick Cafes Serve Kratom Tea, a Legal Drink That Can Ease Chronic Pain and Opiate Withdrawal

Kratom, an all natural herbal tea, offers a wealth of health and wellness benefits, but they’re shrouded by misconceptions.

The Battle to Truly Legalize Dancing in New York Continues

The Battle to Truly Legalize Dancing in New York Continues

A new bill would create a task force to study NYC nightlife and recommend ways to modernize the system of licensing.

Breaking: Bushwick’s Walter’s Coffee Will Close on Sunday Amid a Legal Battle

Breaking: Bushwick’s Walter’s Coffee Will Close on Sunday Amid a Legal Battle

A Chef Is Hosting a 4/20 Prohibition-Style, 100% Legal Cannabis Dinner In Bushwick Tomorrow

A Chef Is Hosting a 4/20 Prohibition-Style, 100% Legal Cannabis Dinner In Bushwick Tomorrow

Here’s one way to celebrate 4/20.

Buy Artwork, Support Lambda Legal, Oppose the Incoming Administration

Buy Artwork, Support Lambda Legal, Oppose the Incoming Administration

In even more of a showing of Trump-resistance, artists are coming together to fundraise for Lamda Legal.

Bushwick Spots That Are Fronts for Illegal Operations [COMIC]

Bushwick Spots That Are Fronts for Illegal Operations [COMIC]

Speakeasies are so basic.

City Busted an Illegal East Williamsburg Airbnb Loft Hotel

City Busted an Illegal East Williamsburg Airbnb Loft Hotel

The Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement raided an East Williamsburg loft building and busted some of its residents for running an 8-unit illegal hotel out of a loft, according to the Daily News and the Department of Buildings

Barely Legal: Meet Humza Deas, the 18-Year-Old Prodigy Photographer from Bushwick

Barely Legal: Meet Humza Deas, the 18-Year-Old Prodigy Photographer from Bushwick

At only 18, Humza Deas has already accomplished more than what people do in a lifetime.

Tale of 3 Pizza Brothers Lacks the Happily Ever After: Roberta’s Owners Are in a Legal Dispute

Tale of 3 Pizza Brothers Lacks the Happily Ever After: Roberta’s Owners Are in a Legal Dispute

Once upon a time (in 2008 to be precise), three friends decided to open a restaurant in Bushwick (ok, it was actually in East Williamsburg, but go explain that in Manhattan)

If They Build it, You Will Party: Bushwick’s Underground Spot Apostrophe is Going Legal and Needs Your Help!

If They Build it, You Will Party: Bushwick’s Underground Spot Apostrophe is Going Legal and Needs Your Help!

Last fall, the shutting down of Apostrophe, a beloved art gallery and after hours spot devastated the Bushwick underground scene. It’s been almost a year and Ki and Sei Smith, the brothers that founded the space in 2012, have had lots of time to think, scheme and strategize a plan for a new, improved and […]

Jose Lopez from Make the Road Talks about Illegal Practices of Bushwick Landlords

Jose Lopez from Make the Road Talks about Illegal Practices of Bushwick Landlords

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

City Council Member Diana Reyna Investigates Potentially Illegal Rezoning Approval

City Council Member Diana Reyna Investigates Potentially Illegal Rezoning Approval

We almost thought that nobody in this town cared about the potentially illegal excluding of the public from the vote of Community Board 4 on the rezoning of Rheingold Brewery

Community Board 4 Illegally Approved Rezoning of Rheingold Brewery

Community Board 4 Illegally Approved Rezoning of Rheingold Brewery

It seems that development plans at the Rheingold Brewery site in Bushwick are one step closer to the completion.

Redrawing Lines: How Redistricting Shapes Bushwick’s Future

Redrawing Lines: How Redistricting Shapes Bushwick’s Future

As New York City gears up for the 2024 elections, Bushwick stands at a pivotal point due to its history as a bellwether for progressive voting patterns across the country.

She Sells Sex Toys, On Bogart Street

She Sells Sex Toys, On Bogart Street

A self-described “naughty marketplace” sets up shop with an “intersectional feminist perspective.”

Opinion: Make Accessing the Ridgewood Reservoir Safer

Opinion: Make Accessing the Ridgewood Reservoir Safer

A local biking group says bike lines and widened sidewalks are needed to increase accessibility to a local public park.

Jennifer Gutiérrez: Tenants Need To Be Informed

Jennifer Gutiérrez: Tenants Need To Be Informed

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

A Raid At The Jefferson Street Shelter

A Raid At The Jefferson Street Shelter

“They have us out here like dogs”

Inside a Humanitarian Crisis Happening Right Off Myrtle/Broadway

Inside a Humanitarian Crisis Happening Right Off Myrtle/Broadway

Instead of a Blink Fitness, a local building in Bushwick has become a token in the city’s ongoing asylum crisis.

Drama In The Denizen

Drama In The Denizen

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

Brooklyn Mirage’s latest problem? A $7.5 million lawsuit

Brooklyn Mirage’s latest problem? A $7.5 million lawsuit

“Avant Gardner has made a lot of money from the gays,” a lawyer warns.

An Activist Walks Into A Bar.

An Activist Walks Into A Bar.

Why a former Democracy Now war correspondent opened the Starr Bar in Bushwick

At a Town Hall In Bushwick, Locals Complain About Rats

At a Town Hall In Bushwick, Locals Complain About Rats

“We’ve been fighting rats coming in and out. I don’t know why.”

Nico Walker in Bushwick

Nico Walker in Bushwick

Years after hosting COVID-era ragers, the former ‘Illhouse’ now hosts poetry readings.

Re-splintering.

Re-splintering.

“That’s the kind of thing that happens when a community gets split.”

Progressives Fight The Machine.

Progressives Fight The Machine.

“I do credit the negative campaign and the mailers for the fact that we didn’t win”

Sheriff Tows Bushwick ‘Pot Trucks.’ They Return A Day Later.

Sheriff Tows Bushwick ‘Pot Trucks.’ They Return A Day Later.

‘Lots of product seized,’ says the sheriff’s office about their latest haul.

“Together We Stand with Ukraine,” Says This Local Group

“Together We Stand with Ukraine,” Says This Local Group

Fundraisers held at 3 Dollar Bill by LGBTQIA+ group

Can A Bushwick Pol Make It To Albany?

Can A Bushwick Pol Make It To Albany?

A mildly contentious lieutenant governor race gives a local career politician a possible comeback.

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”