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Your Bushwick Guide to $1 Oyster Happy Hours

Summer is almost at its end, here's how to spend the last dreamy afternoons!

Your Bushwick Guide to $1 Oyster Happy Hours

Your Bushwick Guide to $1 Oyster Happy Hours

Summer is almost at its end, here's how to spend the last dreamy afternoons!

Your Bushwick Guide to $1 Oyster Happy Hours

Matt Fink

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For centuries in New York the slippery, opalescent oyster dominated the shores, their bone white shell fragments crunching underfoot. They were so ubiquitous as to be almost an afterthought, a cheap one at that, costing nothing at all before the arrival of the Dutch.

That was then. Now, a plump, innocent-looking little Kumamoto from Puget Sound will easily rob you of $3.50 in even a mid-range New York restaurant. This rampant inflation is frustrating…

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