Category: Wick Talk

Bushwick Bradshaw: Wingwomaning Week

This recurring column offers the perspective of a 26 year old Black queer journalist navigating life as a freelance artist in Bushwick. A modern counterpoint to Carrie Bradshaw’s straight...

Op-Ed: Bushwick Needs An Art Space for Kids

An Op-Ed by Rona Davis, owner of Bushwick Restaurant 191 Knickerbocker

Op-Ed: Covid-19 Has Disrupted Students’ Education, but We Cannot Drop the Ball Further

Tai Abrams is the founder of AdmissionSquad and the best-selling author of “Who Am I? An A-Z Career Guide for Teens.”

Cannabis Lifestyle Company Comes to Williamsburg, While Marijuana Arrests Continue Citywide

Brooklyn has seen 161 arrests for marijuana possession just in the first quarter of 2019.

Get lost in the sauce

10 Tips for Surviving Summer in Bushwick Without an Air Conditioner

If you can’t, or simply won’t afford an AC, here are a few tips for beating the heat that I learned as a human being in Bushwick without an air conditioner.

Is the Dunkin’ Donuts Opening on Flushing Ave Signaling the End of Creative Bushwick?

If you regularly pass the giant carwash called Wow at the corner of Flushing and Knickerbocker Ave in Bushwick, you should know that it will soon no longer be part of your commute

Open Letter of Love: The Hipster Who Grew Up In Ridgewood

I've lived in Ridgewood for nearly 20 years

Bushwick Resident Writes a Letter to Obama About Gentrification

Bushwick resident of Iranian descent, musician Elaheh Farmand, has been living in Bushwick for a little over a year now and has been seeing a lot of things that bothered her

Staying Sober in Bushwick: A Virtue or Complete Insanity?

In a land where a handshake comes with a pint of...

Catcalling is NOT Flattering: Why I Stopped Running in Bushwick

NY Post writer Doree Lewak likes to parade herself in skimpy dresses in front of construction sites and says catcalling boosts her ego, adding that "when a total stranger notices you, it’s validating

ArtCondo: A Sea Change for Artist Studio Space?

It seems clear that most artists working in New York City are in a bind

Pool Tables I Have Known (Requiem for Wreck Room Bar)

This year has been a bad year for pool tables I have known

Living BOS ’14: Bushwick, Will You Still be My Friend When You Change?

Throwing your persone in the vortex called Bushwick Open Studios frequently comes with a creeping yet steady anxiety of missing the best spectacle of your life happening perhaps just next door

Loving and Leaving Bushwick (Or ‘We’ll Take Our Beers in a Six-Pack, Please’)

I first moved to the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy border in 2009 with two other ladies, recent college grads

So What’s the Deal with “Jefftown” and Should You Hate It?

Recently, Gothamist's Rebecca Fishbein wrote a guide summing up the new and old food places in "Jefftown" using terms such as "barstaurantification" and "hip spillover from Williamsburg," leading a couple thousand people to simultaneously go eat good food off the Jefferson L stop and feel some seriously contradictory emotions of hate towards "Jefftown

Camera Shy: A Case for Consent

Before you snap a photo of that stranger, pause for a second.

Friday Editorial: Are We Already in a Post-Internet Age?

This week with Allison Galgiani, art editor of Bushwick Daily
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