A former Paper Mill will become office space.

By Brian Douglas

By Brian Douglas

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

Local hardcore bands play a free show in support of a ceasefire in Gaza

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

“We know how sweet and precious a drink with a tiny umbrella can be,” promises a bartender at the newly-opened Vacations.

Bushwick’s answer to Kacey Musgraves is a Texas transplant who generates feels from deep inside the major label machine

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

Halsey stop, brace yourself for the arrival of a yuppie heaven.

Last August, old school biz Black Rabbit Barbershop opened up on East Williamsburg’s Porter Ave on a stretch of several blocks that, with the recent additions of indie comic hub Cotton Candy Machine and confectionary My Sweet Brigadeiro, is evolving from an industrial corridor into a community of passionately run small businesses

If you regularly pass the giant carwash called Wow at the corner of Flushing and Knickerbocker Ave in Bushwick, you should know that it will soon no longer be part of your commute

Bushwick of the previous decade has rapidly transformed from New York’s “forgotten” neighborhood into a synonym of hipness and trendiness

We’ve got 10 intimate, close nit shows in this week’s round up

It’s been almost five months since denizens of the city’s creatively entrepreneurial set would trek several blocks east from the Morgan L stop to head to the 3rd Ward space at 195 Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg, to take classes ranging from stop-motion animation to jewelry design

I hope that Banksy and his residency in the streets of New York City is not old news for you yet because after 17 days of surprises, highlights, and a total obsession on the part of many, Banksy hit the Bed Stuy-Bushwick border today

NURTUREart began by putting on shows in borrowed space – empty Lower East Side storefronts, the corporate lobby of Citibank, the United Nations

Although Bushwick may have survived (and even surged) through devastating Hurricane Sandy, the rest of New York City has not fared so well- Breezy Point, Rockaway in Queens and lower Manhattan suffered among the worst damage

By Brian Douglas