The developers of the largest luxury residential development in Bushwick up to this date, don’t seem to plan on including the number of affordable housing units as they promised to the community

Short weeks rule, amirite? And now that Memorial Day has passed and we’re in full early-summertime swing, it’s time to you get going to some concerts! Check out our seven picks for the week, starting tonite!

When I was a kid, my mother made me volunteer at a local shelter every Christmas morning

Walk from Manhattan to Ridgewood on Queensboro Bridge while passing the Unisphere

A few weeks ago, we told you about the crisis facing Bushwick’s El Garden, one of the 17 community gardens on public land across the city at risk of being leveled to create new housing developments

Yesterday we informed you that the infamous annual bar crawl SantaCon has sent a letter to Bushwick bars announcing that this year’s drunk fest will be held in Bushwick on December 13

The weekend may be looking thunderstorm-laden, but that means nothing for dedicated show-goers but an excuse to your golashes and fill up on Dark’n’stormies (we recommend Tandem’s). Then hit the wet pavement and bask in some light rain on your way to one of these amazing 9 top concerts of the weekend. We’ve got festivals, free shows, “art spaces” and […]

Get ready, because this weekend is about to get fabulous! We have 10 ass-kicking shows for you to choose from for an enhanced musical weekend experience

I think the only thing that makes me more aggravated than technology (don’t get me started on the jammed “lock” button on my cellphone) may be the MTA subway–I am especially looking at you L and M (J train wins “Train of the Year” by default because it consistently actually shows up

During the last six months of 2013 I discovered some rockin’ brews being served up in our neighborhood, from local taps at dives and restaurants to fledging breweries pouring their own beers with great plans on the horizon for our local beer scene

Are you concerned about the proposed rezoning of the former Rheingold Brewery complex? As we’ve reported, many concerned Bushwick residents have felt left out of the approval process for the rezoning, which would allow for the construction of nearly 1,000 apartment units in brand new 7- and 8-story apartment buildings near the Flushing Avenue J-train stop in northwest Bushwick

Newcomers and long-time residents need to work together for the future of the community, agreed the speakers on the “Building a Better Bushwick” panel at Bushwick Film Festival on Saturday, which we livestreamed and is available to watch in full above

It is true! The big, awesome, sixth (!!) Bushwick Film Festival  kicked off last night and continues throughout the entire weekend

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At around noon yesterday, the City Planning Commission of NYC met to discuss a wide-range of city projects, including the rezoning of Rheingold Brewery in Bushwick

The part of Bushwick that once housed the Rheingold Brewery, a major beer producer for New York State in the 1950’s and 60’s, is a pretty sizable parcel of land

We almost thought that nobody in this town cared about the potentially illegal excluding of the public from the vote of Community Board 4 on the rezoning of Rheingold Brewery

Bushwick Now & Then Photo Walk this past Sunday with legendary street photographer Meryl Meisler and Bushwick teacher Adam Schwartz was a success! From The Living Gallery to around all the (in)famous Bushwick landmarks, you took some beautiful images

A couple of days ago we informed you that prominent Bushwick-based artist Jules de Balincourt announced on his Facebook that he is attempting to form an “organization bringing together to form a collective of sorts in which artist buy buildings together in order to prevent what happened in Williamsburg…

The J train stop at Flushing Ave. Waddup Woodhull?? Last week we told you the ways the L train can be triflin‘. In our comments section, readers ended up showing some love for its parallel sister train, the J! Though it has a bad rap, the J/M/Z  train line is actually pretty dope- it runs […]

This morning DNAinfo’s Meredith Hoffman reports Bushwick’s Community Board 4 has decided that going forward, all liquor licenses in the neighborhood will be subject to a 12 a

Photos by Katarina Hybenova