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Becoming Josephine: a Glam Yiddish Singer-Songwriter
“It’s ironic because now that I’m making music for a character I’m making the most genuine, sincere music of my...
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Only 1 in 8 Bushwick Schools Offer Student-Run Newspapers. Does This Affect Local Journalism?
An investigative piece explores why local schools cannot offer journalism electives and how it affects our community.
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Artesanias: Rare, Handmade Ecuadorian Baskets and Crafts Brighten up Bushwick
Maria is known craftsman in the area.
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Gentrification: WTF Does It Mean, For Real?
A new workshop comes to Bushwick to educate the community on everything gentrification.
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Queer Kid Stuff: Award-Winning Web Series Educates Children (and Adults) on LGBTQ+
NYC Native Created LGBT+ Children’s Web Series in the Heart of Bushwick.
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Kids Ride Club: Bushwick-based Program Empowers Youth Through Urban Cycling
Aimed at Bushwick public schools, local students gear up for urban adventures.
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Don’t shoot, I Want to Grow Up: Bushwick Native Teaches Children Alternatives to Violence
“We’re all committed to making sure these schools and these kids are safe.”
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Composting in Bushwick: Here’s Where to Drop Off Your Organic Scraps
Change begins with the individual, start composting today!
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Women’s Prison Association Provides an Alternative to Incarceration with a Focus on Mental Health
WPA provides personalized treatment and plans for women to make positive changes in their lives instead of spending time in...
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Local Sustainability Platform Gains Recognition Abroad and Makes Living Green Easy for All
Making sustainability easy, cheap, and accessible to the Gen Z and millennial crowd.
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Comedians and Cyclists Are Hosting a Free Stand-up Comedy Benefit at Bushwick Bike Shop
After 15 bicyclists died this year, locals are raising awareness and funds.
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Reclaiming Culture: Celebrate the Afro-Latinx Diaspora in Brooklyn this Weekend
The Afro-Latinx Festival comes back to NYC for its seventh installment!
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Community Members Fight for New Bus Stop at Ridgewood Reservoir
NYCH20 and Queens Community Board 5 continue campaigning for a new bus stop at the undiscovered gem.
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Unity and Empathy: Local Artist Gathered Bushwick Community to Connect Through Art and Storytelling
“It was incredible, there was so much heartwarming generosity and genuine harmony.”
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Bushwick Students Build a Mars Rover Bridging the Gap of Diversity in Tech
After a successful GoFundMe campaign, local students were able to build a replica of the Mars Rover.
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The Puppetmobile Will Visit Maria Hernandez Park with New Free Show on June 25
The series is a part of a larger summer City Parks program giving focus to underrepresented and low-income communities
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Celebrating Local Heritage, Bushwick’s First Official Puerto Rican Day Parade Was a Success
“Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas!”
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Grassroots Event Brings Drivers and Bikers Together to Find Common Ground
The future of biking in Bushwick shows promise.
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Bushwick Non-Profit Found a New Home to Create Opportunities for Local Youth of Color
Educated Little Monsters has found a permanent space for over 50 local students.
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Unique Community Group in Ridgewood Offers Experimental Social Gatherings and Events
From research to poetry, from gardening to protests!
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RiseBoro is Launching a Community Supported Agriculture Program in July
CSAs can be a wonderful resource, providing farmers with steady income and people with locally-produced food. The drawback is that...
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Sustainable Brooklyn Bridges the Gap Between the Environmental Movement and Communities of Color
Sustainable Brooklyn’s Dominique Drakeford and Whitney McGuire are on a mission to make the environmental movement more inclusive.
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“Drive Change” Trains Formerly Incarcerated Young Adults for the Restaurant Industry
I was on the phone with Drive Change fellow Migdalia Wilkerson when she shouted to an unseen passerby, “Hi, would...
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The Life of a Polyamorous Hasidic Swordfighter in Bushwick
He found his first couple of dates through Craigslist. David preferred to date non-Jews, because then he was only participating...
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This Brooklyn Program Is Tackling the Opioid Epidemic ‘After Hours’
AHP is a syringe exchange program, a social and mental health services provider, an opioid use disorder treatment facility, and...
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Bushwick Farmers Markets: Here’s Where to Get Fresh and Local Produce this Summer
Riseboro markets and pop-up, Ridgewood Youthmarket, and Graham Avenue Farmers Market!
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Bed-Stuy’s Eighth Grade Girls Excel at National Chess Championships and Win Second Place
“Less and less black and brown girls are feeling intimidated. The feeling that they can compete is an incredible transformative...
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Lift Like a Girl: A Bushwick Powerlifting Gym Centers Female and Non-Binary People
With special events for minorities, as well, like a training session called Muslim Women Learn to Lift, Black Girls Lift,...
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Bushwick-Based Beatbox Collective Supports Mental Health Awareness and Inner-City Children
The Beatbox House is a Bushwick-based, award winning, and touring beatboxing collective
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2020 Census Outreach Focuses on Brooklyn Communities with the Lowest Response Rates via New Data Map
New interactive map by CUNY helps organizations with the upcoming population census.
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Bushwick Pet Care Business Owner Saves Local Pup
Not all heroes wear capes. Some carry leashes.
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Bushwick Is Hosting a Shoe Drive Brunch for Promgoers in Need
Soul to Sole is a nonprofit event helping to dress local students for their special night.
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Clean Bushwick Initiative is Working to Create a Trash-Free Neighborhood
Three local women gear up to create a green and sustainable community.
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Brownsville and Bed-Stuy Voiced Concerns About Police-Community Relations and Over-Policing
New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board held its public meeting at the the Van Dyke Community Center in Brownsville...
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Sex Workers, Feminism, and Stand-Up Collide at the Venus Flytrap Comedy Show in East Williamsburg
Sex work 101, but through comedy.
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NYU is Hosting a Bilingual Latino College Expo for Prospective Students and Their Families
The expo is an opportunity for Latino youth to look into several college options in one place and learn essential...
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The Final Installment of Bushwick Bohemia Poetry and a Goodbye from Its Curator
Bushwick-born poet, Emanuel Xavier, who has curated this monthly feature, will be saying goodbye to his hometown neighborhood.
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Local Woman Starts Nonprofit to Serve Bushwick Community with Workshops on Art and Wellness
Reese Samuel is gifting the community with free workshops on a variety of topics, including career development.
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Happy International Women’s Day: Let’s Celebrate the Women of Bushwick
Support your local woman-owned businesses and events!
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The Art of Tabla: Bushwick Musician Teaches Traditional North Indian Drums
Siddhartha Mehta builds creative community through drumming.
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Rage and Celebrate International Womxn’s Day at Queer-led Resistance Party in Ridgewood
The anti-Trump party we all deserve.
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Bushwick-Based Zine Focuses on Community Building and Womxn Networking
Ginger is a feminist zine that focuses on building a strong networking community for womxn creatives.
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Local Volunteers Pull Together to Serve the Homeless of Bushwick During Temperature Drops
“After the housing crash, back in 2008, they didn’t have jobs… And their families, they threw them out.”
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February’s Bushwick Bohemia Beat Poetry is Here: Words of Love
Here's one for the romantics.
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How to Actually Pronounce These Bushwick Subway Station Names
Are you a SHAWN-see or a CHAWN-see kind of person?
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Brooklyn Film Camera Keeps Analog Photography Alive and Plans to Open a Film Lab this Spring
What began as a DIY basement project has become Bushwick’s premiere destination for all things Polaroid and analog.
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10 Alternative Ways to Spend Valentine’s Day in Bushwick
Tired of heteronormative and boring Hallmark events? Then this list is for you.
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Local Couple Brings Artisanal Bean to Bar Chocolate to Ridgewood
This husband and wife duo was inspired by the lack of good hot chocolate in America.
