Keep your eyes open – you never know when you’ll bump into a celebrity in Bushwick – at an art gallery, gallery opening or on the street during a film shoot.
Ben Sinclair of HBO’s High Maintenance with artist Lisa Levy in 2018.
On of the many “No Parking” signs for film shoots over the years.
Adrian Grenier at the end of Entourage’s run in 2011.
Barbara Walters at the Life on Mars gallery in 2015
Miss Subways 2017 judges, actress/comedian Janeane Garofalo, comedian Baratunde R. Thurston, Art star Reverend Jen Miller and NY1 reporter Roger Clark. Bushwick’s Lisa Levy was crowned winner.
NY1’s Pat Kiernan appearing on Chris Rose’s “Late Night Basement” at Pine Box Rock Shop in 2013
Stumbled upon the shooting of the pilot for “I Just Want my Pants Back” back in 2011. The scene was a New York blackout. Peter Vack, Kim Shaw, Elisabeth Hower, non-cast member and Bushwick’s own Dr. Lisa and Jordan Carlos (left to right).
Jason Trachtenburg, Tina Piña and Rachel Trachtenburg (once the Tractenburg Family Slideshow Players) at a benefit for Arts in Bushwick in 2015.
Writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest on Dr Lisa’s shrink’s couch in 2015.
Phil Buehler is a long-time Bushwick-based photographer & explorer of urban ruins. He will be publishing some of his work in weekly curated segments on Bushwick Daily – the artists, musicians, performers, street art, events, buildings, art galleries, even the pets and garbage that make Bushwick Bushwick – look for Bushwick: Art or Garbage and Bushwick: Then & Now.
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