Bushwick has its own calendar, and it’s nothing like your aunt Sheila’s copy of “Pat Nixon’s Christmas Outfits, 1959-60.”
The facts are these: several bartenders at Bushwick-area bars, including Pine Box Rock Shop, Pink Metal, Abe’s Pagoda, 101 Wilson, Bootleg Bar, The Cobra Club, Forrest Point and Heavy Woods, recently lent their scruffy, inked pulchritude to the photographic project of Leslie Hong, floor manager at jack-of-all-trades bar Our Wicked Lady.
The result, an affectionate ode to Bushwick’s raw, wild bar scene, is a “Bushwick Bar Babes of 2021.” It features both men and women, shot by photographers Jeanette D. Moses and Michelle Ma, arranged in various poses among the paraphernalia and characteristic furnishings of their chosen profession: bar tops, stools, liquor bottles and a few mutilated barbies.
Cover photo taken by Jeanette D. Moses at Boobie Trap.







