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Bushwick unveils ‘We Are Home’ mural celebrating immigrant roots

Churches United for Fair Housing and The Action Lab unveiled on Sept. 23 a multistory mural by artist Dasic Fernández...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Nov 11, 2026

Arts & Culture

Diotima designer Rachel Scott wins the CFDA’s American Womenswear Designer of the Year award for a second time

Scott, who also leads Proenza Schouler, beat Khaite's Catherine Holstein, Michael Kors, Tory Burch and Carolina Herrera's Wes Gordon at...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Nov 11, 2026

Arts & Culture

DonorsChoose hangs school supplies out of reach in Bushwick November 16, with local teachers over $230,000 short

"Within Reach" is unveiled November 16 at 4 Porter: books, art materials and STEM kits high on a wall, with...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Nov 11, 2026

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Iris van Herpen finishes a couture gown sculpted with about 200 Brooklyn Museum visitors

Visitors helped shape the silver gown's folds over nine days for "Sculpting the Unspoken," and thoughts some of them shared...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Nov 11, 2026

Arts & Culture

MoMA opens a singing digital swamp, Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s ‘Wetland,’ through March 7

MoMA's Agnes Gund Garden Lobby is now filled with Berl-Berl, a digital wetland installation by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Nov 11, 2026

Arts & Culture

Frick Collection opens first-ever exhibition of Sienese Renaissance bronze sculpture

The Frick Collection opened "Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500" on October 15, bringing together nearly forty rare bronzes by...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Nov 11, 2026

Business

MasterChef alum and her daughter now serve jerk chicken and chop cheese tacos at Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Chef Shelly Flash calls it "a beautiful full-circle moment." She and her daughter Jataun run the café as 2 Girls...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Nov 9, 2026

Arts & Culture

Brooklyn Silent Film Festival returns tonight in Williamsburg, with eight acts scoring silent films live

Eight acts play original scores live to eight new silent short films at Main Drag Music in Williamsburg. Films start...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Nov 8, 2026

Celebrity

Karol G’s bubble-blowing Instagram photo was taken at a new Colombian bar in Bushwick

Karol G posted an Instagram photo of herself blowing bubbles inside Salsamentaria La Milagrosa, a Colombian bar that opened in...

Bushwick Daily Staff Oct 11, 2026

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Review

LOVE New York: It’s all wooing and warring among millennials.

Anthony DiMieri’s ensemble rom-com follows a dozen couples through 24 hours in New York City.

Brenda Cullerton Oct 8, 2026

Arts & Culture

A truck driver’s hand-built model of NYC with 800,000 structures is on display at the Museum of the City of New York

Queens truck driver Joe Macken's hand-built balsa wood scale model of all five boroughs, spanning more than 800,000 structures built...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Oct 5, 2026

Arts & Culture

Scottish artist Craigie Harper brings a post-war town’s UFO visitors and shapeshifters to a Sunset Park gallery Nov. 14

"The Way It Was" opens at Court Tree Collective in Industry City with a reception from 3 to 6 p.m....

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Sep 30, 2026

Arts & Culture

Your guide to events in Bushwick, Ridgewood and beyond: September 16-22, 2026

A Bushwick painter is opening a gallery in her own apartment, a free cumbia festival takes over a community garden,...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Sep 16, 2026

Arts & Culture

Army veteran Yanko Valentin-Perez leads Wilfred La Salle’s Bushwick-shot film on FOX Soul

Wilfred La Salle left an 18-year NYC career to make films with no budget. His seventh, The Veteran, shot at...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Sep 14, 2026

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Broadway’s biggest characters are getting interrogated in East Williamsburg, and nothing is off-limits

Comedians in full Broadway character face audience Q&A at Eris in East Williamsburg for Musical Theatre Foolishness, a talkback-turned-improv spectacle...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 21, 2026

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Williamsburg’s Giglio is up: a 70-foot tower of saints and angels, carried through the streets by 100 men for the 139th year

The 70-foot Giglio tower, adorned with saints and flowers, has been lifted in Williamsburg for the 139th annual Our Lady...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 17, 2026

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A Bushwick-born comedian built a show around food, love and chaos: ‘Eat Improv Love’ hits Brooklyn Comedy Collective for $12

Bushwick-born comedian Kristen Gonzalez, aka Krisaygon, brings her genre-bending 'Eat Improv Love' show to Brooklyn Comedy Collective on July 26...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 9, 2026

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A stage-diving Brooklyn teacher hand-carved 50 prints for his Bushwick novel: NYPD, fascist gangs, robot dogs, and zero AI

Fagan Kuhnmuench, a stage-diving Brooklyn teacher, hand-carved 50 woodblock prints for his Bushwick novel 'Blowing Up Bushwick,' blending punk history...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 9, 2026

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The Bushwick Starr is throwing a free party on Eldert Street all August, music, markets and performances included

The Bushwick Starr is hosting free music, markets, and performances all August at 419 Eldert Street, bringing neighbors together and...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 9, 2026

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A Bushwick gallery misspelled ‘Old School’ in neon on purpose, and the typo is a full argument about capitalism

Synesthesia gallery in Bushwick hosts Anne Katrine Senstad’s neon exhibition VEIEJA ESCUELERA, using deliberate misspellings to critique capitalism and its...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 4, 2026

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‘Windows on the Archives’ at DORIS puts copies of the city’s original municipal records on public display, one of three free NYC history exhibits at 31 Chambers Street

The NYC Department of Records and Information Services is running three free public history exhibits at 31 Chambers Street in...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 1, 2026

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Six NYC artists just landed a free DUMBO studio for eleven months, plus a stipend and equipment access

Smack Mellon has named six NYC emerging artists to its 2026-27 Artist Studio cohort, moving into DUMBO's 92 Plymouth Street...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 1, 2026

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Fifty NYC public school students had their art displayed on a Times Square screen

Fifty artworks by NYC public school students, some as young as pre-K, ran on the Cube at Duffy Square in...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 1, 2026

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Museum of the City of New York opens a 7,000-square-foot exhibit on the city’s Revolutionary War occupation

The Museum of the City of New York opens 'The Occupied City,' a 7,000-square-foot exhibition on New York's seven-year British...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 1, 2026

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DORIS premieres an interactive neighborhood audio map inside its ongoing city history exhibit at 31 Chambers Street

The NYC Department of Records and Information Services has launched an interactive map of neighborhood audio interviews as part of...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jul 1, 2026

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Smack Mellon turns 30 with a fall exhibition it hasn’t announced yet. The DUMBO galleries stay dark all summer until the September 19 opening.

Smack Mellon in DUMBO celebrates its 30th anniversary with a fall exhibition and September 19 reception, and announces six new...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 30, 2026

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Casa Ecuador brought the country’s four ecosystems to a downtown Manhattan firehouse

Casa Ecuador, a conservation-themed exhibition by The Embassy of Nature, brought Ecuador's four ecosystems to a Lower Manhattan firehouse during...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 30, 2026

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An international photo wire just told the world Bushwick is a street art hub, over one shot of graffiti on old factory walls

Reuters Connect, an international photo wire, has labeled Bushwick a global street art hub based on a single image of...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 25, 2026

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They’re the casting directors for New York’s buildings: Ridgewood’s Low Cinema put three veteran location scouts on stage

Ridgewood’s Low Cinema hosted a film series spotlighting veteran location scouts, the unsung heroes who find New York’s cinematic backdrops,...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 25, 2026

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For this Bushwick scenic designer, less on the stage means more: her case that stripping down a gothic opera deepens it

Bushwick-based scenic designer Jiaying Zhang explains how stripping down sets for Heartbeat Opera’s 2026 Vanessa deepens emotional storytelling, reflecting her...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 25, 2026

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Plastic flowers, eagle feathers, and birthday candles: Marco DaSilva’s mosaic assemblages open at a Gowanus gallery Saturday

Marco DaSilva opens mosaic assemblage solo show 'A Light for a Feather' at Tappeto Volante Projects in Gowanus this Saturday,...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 25, 2026

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27 artists, five years, one Tribeca room: Tappeto Volante can’t fit its whole Gowanus history so it’s showing you what it could

Brooklyn's Tappeto Volante Gallery celebrates five years with 'In Case You Missed It,' a 27-artist group show opening July 10...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 25, 2026

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Four Haitian artists turned grief, memory, and Brooklyn’s gardens into a free show in Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Four Haitian artists present a free community-built exhibition in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, exploring grief, memory, and place through collaborative projects...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 20, 2026

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Chez Bushwick has been renting artists affordable studio space since 2002. It marked 24 years with a party on Boerum Street

Chez Bushwick, the affordable artist studio space at 304 Boerum Street in Bushwick, marked 24 years with a celebration on...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 20, 2026

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A Williamsburg studio is giving artists 1,000 hours of free rehearsal time, and it stops the second those hours run out

LEIMAY is giving artists free rehearsal time at its Williamsburg CAVE space until 1,000 hours are used up, with bookings...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 18, 2026

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The Bushwick Starr gala is back this year, but it’s leaving Bushwick for a Greenpoint restaurant and a cosmic disco glam rock theme

The Bushwick Starr is hosting its annual fundraiser at Rule of Thirds in Greenpoint this year, embracing a cosmic disco...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 18, 2026

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The Bushwick Starr hit its $25,000 education fundraising goal. The money covers teaching artists, supplies, and field trips for students ages 9 to 90

Bushwick Starr hit its $25,000 fundraising goal for Education and Community programs, funding teaching artist salaries, classroom supplies, and field...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 15, 2026

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One of the city’s last community darkrooms has until June 30 to survive. The only offer was $5,000 in installments.

The Bushwick Community Darkroom, one of NYC's last hands-on film developing spaces, faces closure by June 30 unless it secures...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Jun 6, 2026

Arts & Culture

Greenpoint Open Studios anchors a packed spring of Brooklyn and downtown gallery openings

Hundreds of Greenpoint artists open studios this weekend as Brooklyn's spring arts season brings new gallery openings from Bushwick to...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk May 26, 2026

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Tri-State Transportation Campaign plans ‘The Art of Mobility’ event in Manhattan

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign will host The Art of Mobility fundraiser on May 14, 2026, featuring NYC DOT Art Program...

Bushwick Daily News Desk May 11, 2026

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New City Critics close fellowship with June 17 publication launch at DCTV

Six New City Critics fellows will launch their publication City en Regalia at DCTV in Lower Manhattan on June 17,...

Bushwick Daily News Desk May 7, 2026

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Bushwick Starr closes its 2025-26 season with Michael Oluokun’s solo show ‘Have You Ever Thought About’

The Bushwick Starr concluded its 2025-26 season with Michael Oluokun's solo comedy show "Have You Ever Thought About," which ran...

Bushwick Daily News Desk May 5, 2026

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Bushwick Starr co-production ‘A Woman Among Women’ opens at Lincoln Center’s LCT3

The Bushwick Starr co-production 'A Woman Among Women' by Julia May Jonas opens at Lincoln Center's LCT3 through June 28,...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Apr 28, 2026

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After Schwarzenegger’s Vatican climate speech, Bake Shop owner paints Pope Leo and the Terminator on Flushing Avenue

Bake Shop owner Massimo painted Pope Leo XIV and Arnold Schwarzenegger together after the actor's Vatican climate speech, drawing 650,000...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Apr 27, 2026

Arts & Culture

“A Different State” art exhibition opens at Synesthesia, exploring empire and resistance through performance

A Different State group exhibition opens Friday at Synesthesia gallery in Bushwick, featuring Benjamin Kendall, Brandon English, and James Hopper...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Apr 3, 2026

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Music

Trivial Shields films “Rip-Off Angel” music video at historic Williamsburg restaurant Bamonte’s

Brooklyn musician Trivial Shields filmed a 1970s mob-inspired music video for "Rip-Off Angel" at Bamonte's, the historic Italian restaurant in...

Bushwick Daily Culture Desk Apr 2, 2026

News

Empyrean Club, a theatre-and-nightlife venue on Troutman Street, plans 2027 Bushwick launch with ‘American Psycho’ musical

The Empyrean Club, a new theater and nightlife venue at 421 Troutman St. in Bushwick, plans to open in 2027...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Mar 18, 2026

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Tiny Arts Supply reopens at a larger Woodward Avenue space for its fifth anniversary

Tiny Arts Supply has moved to a 1,200-square-foot storefront at 612 Woodward Avenue in Ridgewood, five times larger than its...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Mar 4, 2026

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LONGSHOT CINEMA DROP 002: Indie Films, Drinks, and Music Tonight in Williamsburg

LONGSHOT CINEMA DROP 002 screens four independent short films tonight at 8 p.m. at Alter Space in Williamsburg, followed by...

Alec Meeker Feb 26, 2026

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Kiki Arts Collaborative holds its first ball with Miss USA Kiki Ball

Kiki Arts Collaborative, led by David Prize winner Colby Xzavier King, held its first Miss USA Kiki Ball celebration in...

Bushwick Daily News Desk Feb 10, 2026

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Bushwick unveils ‘We Are Home’ mural celebrating immigrant roots

Diotima designer Rachel Scott wins the CFDA’s American Womenswear Designer of the Year award for a second time

DonorsChoose hangs school supplies out of reach in Bushwick November 16, with local teachers over $230,000 short

Iris van Herpen finishes a couture gown sculpted with about 200 Brooklyn Museum visitors

MoMA opens a singing digital swamp, Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s ‘Wetland,’ through March 7

Frick Collection opens first-ever exhibition of Sienese Renaissance bronze sculpture

MasterChef alum and her daughter now serve jerk chicken and chop cheese tacos at Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Brooklyn Silent Film Festival returns tonight in Williamsburg, with eight acts scoring silent films live

Karol G’s bubble-blowing Instagram photo was taken at a new Colombian bar in Bushwick

LOVE New York: It’s all wooing and warring among millennials.

A truck driver’s hand-built model of NYC with 800,000 structures is on display at the Museum of the City of New York

Scottish artist Craigie Harper brings a post-war town’s UFO visitors and shapeshifters to a Sunset Park gallery Nov. 14

Your guide to events in Bushwick, Ridgewood and beyond: September 16-22, 2026

Army veteran Yanko Valentin-Perez leads Wilfred La Salle’s Bushwick-shot film on FOX Soul

Broadway’s biggest characters are getting interrogated in East Williamsburg, and nothing is off-limits

Williamsburg’s Giglio is up: a 70-foot tower of saints and angels, carried through the streets by 100 men for the 139th year

A Bushwick-born comedian built a show around food, love and chaos: ‘Eat Improv Love’ hits Brooklyn Comedy Collective for $12

A stage-diving Brooklyn teacher hand-carved 50 prints for his Bushwick novel: NYPD, fascist gangs, robot dogs, and zero AI

The Bushwick Starr is throwing a free party on Eldert Street all August, music, markets and performances included

A Bushwick gallery misspelled ‘Old School’ in neon on purpose, and the typo is a full argument about capitalism

‘Windows on the Archives’ at DORIS puts copies of the city’s original municipal records on public display, one of three free NYC history exhibits at 31 Chambers Street

Six NYC artists just landed a free DUMBO studio for eleven months, plus a stipend and equipment access

Fifty NYC public school students had their art displayed on a Times Square screen

Museum of the City of New York opens a 7,000-square-foot exhibit on the city’s Revolutionary War occupation

DORIS premieres an interactive neighborhood audio map inside its ongoing city history exhibit at 31 Chambers Street

Smack Mellon turns 30 with a fall exhibition it hasn’t announced yet. The DUMBO galleries stay dark all summer until the September 19 opening.

Casa Ecuador brought the country’s four ecosystems to a downtown Manhattan firehouse

An international photo wire just told the world Bushwick is a street art hub, over one shot of graffiti on old factory walls

They’re the casting directors for New York’s buildings: Ridgewood’s Low Cinema put three veteran location scouts on stage

For this Bushwick scenic designer, less on the stage means more: her case that stripping down a gothic opera deepens it

Plastic flowers, eagle feathers, and birthday candles: Marco DaSilva’s mosaic assemblages open at a Gowanus gallery Saturday

27 artists, five years, one Tribeca room: Tappeto Volante can’t fit its whole Gowanus history so it’s showing you what it could

Four Haitian artists turned grief, memory, and Brooklyn’s gardens into a free show in Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Chez Bushwick has been renting artists affordable studio space since 2002. It marked 24 years with a party on Boerum Street

A Williamsburg studio is giving artists 1,000 hours of free rehearsal time, and it stops the second those hours run out

The Bushwick Starr gala is back this year, but it’s leaving Bushwick for a Greenpoint restaurant and a cosmic disco glam rock theme

The Bushwick Starr hit its $25,000 education fundraising goal. The money covers teaching artists, supplies, and field trips for students ages 9 to 90

One of the city’s last community darkrooms has until June 30 to survive. The only offer was $5,000 in installments.

Greenpoint Open Studios anchors a packed spring of Brooklyn and downtown gallery openings

Tri-State Transportation Campaign plans ‘The Art of Mobility’ event in Manhattan

New City Critics close fellowship with June 17 publication launch at DCTV

Bushwick Starr closes its 2025-26 season with Michael Oluokun’s solo show ‘Have You Ever Thought About’

Bushwick Starr co-production ‘A Woman Among Women’ opens at Lincoln Center’s LCT3

After Schwarzenegger’s Vatican climate speech, Bake Shop owner paints Pope Leo and the Terminator on Flushing Avenue

“A Different State” art exhibition opens at Synesthesia, exploring empire and resistance through performance

Trivial Shields films “Rip-Off Angel” music video at historic Williamsburg restaurant Bamonte’s

Empyrean Club, a theatre-and-nightlife venue on Troutman Street, plans 2027 Bushwick launch with ‘American Psycho’ musical

Tiny Arts Supply reopens at a larger Woodward Avenue space for its fifth anniversary

LONGSHOT CINEMA DROP 002: Indie Films, Drinks, and Music Tonight in Williamsburg

Kiki Arts Collaborative holds its first ball with Miss USA Kiki Ball