This holiday season, here’s how you can volunteer your time to help others in our community.
Look up and support your local community garden in providing sustenance and critical green space.
An ever-evolving list of Bushwick organizations that are actively in need of volunteers.
Calls are now open for the 2019 SAVI Volunteer Advocate Training Program.
“After the housing crash, back in 2008, they didn’t have jobs… And their families, they threw them out.”
Bushwig’s volunteers are essential to the success of the fest—and there are a few assignments left for dedicated, hardworking queens and the people who love them!
Bushwick’s Still Waters in a Storm is helping kids discover their inner William Blakes this summer.
With only five days to go until the New York Primary, we want to make sure Bushwick goes to Bernie! To do that, it’s going to take a community effort
When I was a kid, my mother made me volunteer at a local shelter every Christmas morning
Though Bushwick thankfully escaped major damage from Hurricane Sandy, nearby Highland Park did not fair so well
Unless you’ve been asleep for a week, you know the major damage Hurricane Sandy has done
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
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“It’s not about a ceasefire or not about not a ceasefire”
Construction is expected to start late 2025.
Ridgewood now has its own enthusiastic group of runners
A day out with Brooklyn Surf Club
The club’s non-profit arm wants to create a “grassroots community of advocates” around Bushwick.
About 18% of Bushwick voted for someone else
A local community fridge faces the threat of eviction, among other troubles
A new local cycling group hosts group rides to breweries on Tuesdays. Anyone’s invited.
Participatory budgeting is back and the results are in for how locals want to dole out $1 million in city funds. Yes dog park, no workout equipment
Redistricting moves and scatters a heated political race, while Elizabeth Crowley has committed to moving within the borders of wherever it is she ends up representing.
A leak from the Supreme Court inspires two fundraisers at the new Bushwick club.
Comedy shows! More comedy shows! And local eco-rapper Hila the Killa!
Here’s a whole week’s worth of free and affordable events happening in and around the neighborhood!
It’s May Day weekend!
Or try out ‘a food scrap demo’ to possibly reduce your waste.
A doggy daycare has opened near the Myrtle-Wyckoff station, with a goal of hiring adults with autism.
Eat at a bagel pop-up! Clean up the streets! Go to the launch of a new negroni!
Volunteers find meaning by giving things away in Bushwick.
Another whole week’s worth of free and affordable events happening in and around the neighborhood.
To find a date, a computer engineer made his own locally-themed ‘Bachelor’ knockoff
The Bar Babes of Bushwick & Ridgewood return! There’s a hot concert at Bridge and Tunnel! A comedy show at the Windjammer!
Looking to get your children involved in extracurricular activities? Need somewhere for them to be while you’re at work?
The Ridgewood compost drop-off site is open from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. every Saturday.
