Newcomers and long-time residents need to work together for the future of the community, agreed the speakers on the “Building a Better Bushwick” panel at Bushwick Film Festival on Saturday, which we livestreamed and is available to watch in full above.“I think that for people who are coming into a community new, the onus is on them to become a part of the existing community,” said Nadine Whitted, the district manager of Bushwick’s Community Board 4. “I think that in our community in Bushwick, that hasn’t always been the case.”

