Bushwick Daily

Bushwick Daily

Emilie Ruscoe

296 Publications
Help These Bushwick Middle Schoolers Get Some Much Needed Classroom Technology!

Help These Bushwick Middle Schoolers Get Some Much Needed Classroom Technology!

The students in an eighth grade ESL class at Bushwick’s Evergreen Middle School for Urban Exploration could do great work if they had some computers!

A New Documentary Explores How North Brooklyn Tenants Succeed at Fighting Displacement

A New Documentary Explores How North Brooklyn Tenants Succeed at Fighting Displacement

“The Method” identifies the strategy that has kept many North Brooklyn residents in their homes despite aggressive attempts to displace them. The final step? “Never give up.”

Bushwick Residents Can Now Order from Dozens of Local Restaurants Using Their Amazon Prime Accounts

Bushwick Residents Can Now Order from Dozens of Local Restaurants Using Their Amazon Prime Accounts

The future is at your door, and it has a hot pizza from Roberta’s with your name on it.

Bushwick Artists: Win Hundreds of Dollars for Making Great Art for This Local Play

Bushwick Artists: Win Hundreds of Dollars for Making Great Art for This Local Play

The first prize winner in in the competition will receive $250 for their work!

Watch: Bushwick’s Bar Caricaturist Napkin Killa Debuts a Goofy Pre-Election Political Cartoon

Watch: Bushwick’s Bar Caricaturist Napkin Killa Debuts a Goofy Pre-Election Political Cartoon

The cartoon is the first in a series called Wise Guyz and features a devil and angel duo who are charged with keeping a certain orange businessman’s fingers off the nuclear codes

Photos: ¡Calabazafest! 2016 Brings Spooky Delight to Bushwick

Photos: ¡Calabazafest! 2016 Brings Spooky Delight to Bushwick

Photos: These Adorable Miniature Horses Warmed Everyone’s Hearts at a Bushwick Senior Center

Photos: These Adorable Miniature Horses Warmed Everyone’s Hearts at a Bushwick Senior Center

Aiden and Pearl, a pair of pint-sized therapy horses, were a big hit among the residents of the Bushwick location of Centers Health Care.

Bushwick’s Magically Singular Harvest Festival ¡Calabazafest! is Coming To Maria Hernandez Park!

Bushwick’s Magically Singular Harvest Festival ¡Calabazafest! is Coming To Maria Hernandez Park!

The 7th annual ¡Calabazafest! will take place next weekend on Sunday, October 30.

The Final Presidential Debate of 2016 Is Tonight! Here Are 17 Places Where You Can Watch in Bushwick

The Final Presidential Debate of 2016 Is Tonight! Here Are 17 Places Where You Can Watch in Bushwick

There is absolutely no reason for anyone to watch this thing sober.

Bushwick’s TEDx Community Will Gather to Solve Gender Inequality and Livestream TEDWomen 2016

Bushwick’s TEDx Community Will Gather to Solve Gender Inequality and Livestream TEDWomen 2016

Bushwick’s own Kweighbaye Kotee will moderate the event, and the livestream will include talks by Black Lives Matter movement founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi.

Support This Documentary About Bushwick’s Innovative School, Still Waters In A Storm!

Support This Documentary About Bushwick’s Innovative School, Still Waters In A Storm!

“STILL WATERS, by award-winning director Peter Gordon and Producer Ann Lalic is a documentary about the joy of learning, one man’s singular vision of what education could be.”

Bushwick’s Mayday Space Is Throwing a Benefit for New York’s Farmworkers

Bushwick’s Mayday Space Is Throwing a Benefit for New York’s Farmworkers

Come put your money where your mouth is, Bushwick locavores!

Win $1,000 to Show Your Bushwick Block Some Love!

Win $1,000 to Show Your Bushwick Block Some Love!

NYC Service and Citizens Committee for New York City have launched the ninth season of the Love Your Block Grant Campaign—what would you do for your block with $1,000 and support from the city?!

Costumed Pups Will Return to Irving Square Park for the Third Annual Howl-A-Ween

Costumed Pups Will Return to Irving Square Park for the Third Annual Howl-A-Ween

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that any dog in a costume is completely adorable.

Rebecca’s, a Welcoming Bushwick Avenue Neighborhood Joint With Roots at Norbert’s, Opens Friday

Rebecca’s, a Welcoming Bushwick Avenue Neighborhood Joint With Roots at Norbert’s, Opens Friday

The classic, affordable spot is opening up in the Olam Signs location now that the former business has moved over to Broadway.

Where to Watch Tonight’s First Vice Presidential Debate in Bushwick

Where to Watch Tonight’s First Vice Presidential Debate in Bushwick

Kaine and Pence are not as colorful, literally or figuratively, as the duo onstage at last week’s debate, but hear ’em out anyway!

Ahhh-CHOO! Here’s Where You Can Get Flu Shots in Bushwick

Ahhh-CHOO! Here’s Where You Can Get Flu Shots in Bushwick

It’s flu season! Here are some local pharmacies where you can get this year’s flu shot.

This East Williamsburg 21-year-old Has Been Missing Since Thursday Afternoon

This East Williamsburg 21-year-old Has Been Missing Since Thursday Afternoon

Flushing Avenue resident Decatur Gooden left home yesterday after a dispute with family and has been missing since.

In a Feverish New Film, Bushwick Is a Scene of a Psychedelic Showdown Between Musicians and Zombies

In a Feverish New Film, Bushwick Is a Scene of a Psychedelic Showdown Between Musicians and Zombies

The “experimental fantasy band flick” shot in the back yard of the McKibben Lofts, at La Luz and in the basement of Lone Wolf.

Get Out There: So Many Amazing Things Are Happening in Bushwick This Weekend!

Get Out There: So Many Amazing Things Are Happening in Bushwick This Weekend!

UPDATE: Be There: The Date is Set for a Bushwick Community Plan Summit

UPDATE: Be There: The Date is Set for a Bushwick Community Plan Summit

If you’re a Bushwick resident, then please attend this meeting!

Bushwick Takes a Turn as an Alternate Reality in the New Dystopian Thriller “Diverge”

Bushwick Takes a Turn as an Alternate Reality in the New Dystopian Thriller “Diverge”

In “Diverge,” a desperate husband returns from the future to his past in present-day Bushwick to fix his life.

Where to Watch the First Presidential Debates in Bushwick

Where to Watch the First Presidential Debates in Bushwick

On Monday morning, the candidates were neck and neck in polls.

End Your Week With This Gorgeous Music Video Celebrating Puerto Rican Bushwick

End Your Week With This Gorgeous Music Video Celebrating Puerto Rican Bushwick

Street art, salsa, pitbulls, piraguas, homing pigeons and open fire hydrants: this music video captures it all beautifully.

Meet the Buddhist Monks Leading Guided Meditation in Bushwick

Meet the Buddhist Monks Leading Guided Meditation in Bushwick

The nonprofit Buddhist Insights is running two donation-based programs in Bushwick this fall: a weekly Tuesday evening session at Bhati Space, and two upcoming day long retreats at Chez Bushwick.

Bushwick Party Kids Get Slashed in a New Indie Horror Movie

Bushwick Party Kids Get Slashed in a New Indie Horror Movie

A movie set in a Bushwick party scene centers on a killer on a rampage and the two struggling arts who try are trying to identify the murderer.

An IRL “Internet Black Market” Will Return to Knockdown Center This Fall

An IRL “Internet Black Market” Will Return to Knockdown Center This Fall

“Internet Yami-Ichi” can be translated as “The Internet Black Market—” but since the word “yami” can also mean “sick for” or “addicted to,” it could also be translated as “Internet Obsessive Market.”

Help The City Help Bushwick: It’s Time to Propose Participatory Budgeting Projects

Help The City Help Bushwick: It’s Time to Propose Participatory Budgeting Projects

From now through September 30th, Bushwick residents can submit proposals for public projects—and If selected at neighborhood assemblies, the projects will be funded with city tax dollars!

A DIY Noisefest Called Day Terror Dirt Bath Will Take Over Silent Barn For a Day in October

A DIY Noisefest Called Day Terror Dirt Bath Will Take Over Silent Barn For a Day in October

Bushwick’s DeKalb Library Won Funding for Two Exemplary Programs This Fall

Bushwick’s DeKalb Library Won Funding for Two Exemplary Programs This Fall

“Bushwick Crossroads” and “Tracing Your Roots” are the two winning programs which are free and open to the public at this Bushwick BPL branch.

Bushwick Studio Apartment Rents Just Jumped by Nearly 10 Percent, Report Indicates

Bushwick Studio Apartment Rents Just Jumped by Nearly 10 Percent, Report Indicates

An annual report by real estate firm MNS states that at the end of the summer, the average rent for a Bushwick studio apartment increased by 9.06 percent, from $1,925 to $2,099.

Explore Coloring as Self-Care With The Real Art Therapists of New York at Brooklyn Kava

Explore Coloring as Self-Care With The Real Art Therapists of New York at Brooklyn Kava

A monthly pop up at Bushwick’s Brooklyn Kava hosted by a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist provides locals with an opportunity to relax and experience coloring as a wellness practice.

Psst, BD Readers! The Bushwick Film Fest Loves You—Here’s a Ticket Discount & Chance to Win VIP Tix!

Psst, BD Readers! The Bushwick Film Fest Loves You—Here’s a Ticket Discount & Chance to Win VIP Tix!

Bushwick Daily readers get 30% off of individual tickets or a discounted pass to the entire 2016 Bushwick Film Festival—& can enter our raffle for a chance to win two VIP passes to the whole fest!

Creepiest ’80s Night? Lot45 Is Throwing a Huge “Stranger Things” Pre-Halloween Party

Creepiest ’80s Night? Lot45 Is Throwing a Huge “Stranger Things” Pre-Halloween Party

There will be costume prizes, so you better not half-ass that Barb outfit.

Ask the MTA Your Questions about the L and M Train Shutdowns at a Meeting in Ridgewood Tonight

Ask the MTA Your Questions about the L and M Train Shutdowns at a Meeting in Ridgewood Tonight

MTA officials will be on hand to speak with authority to the public’s questions, concerns and other thoughts about the upcoming extended closures of two of North Brooklyn’s vital public transit lines.

A Free “Theatrical Pub Crawl” Will Bring Site Specific Street Theater to Bushwick

A Free “Theatrical Pub Crawl” Will Bring Site Specific Street Theater to Bushwick

Brooklyn based theater company The Party Line will host Pop! at 5 sites in and around Bushwick, presenting “movement pieces, musical storytelling, interactive installations” & “puppet parties.”