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What Is Democratic Socialism? A Q & A With The North Brooklyn DSA

What Is Democratic Socialism? A Q & A With The North Brooklyn DSA

Democratic Socialism has surged in popularity in the past two years. Bushwick Daily spoke to the North Brooklyn Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America spokesman Justin Charles to learn more.

Celebrate The 13th Year of Bushwick Pride This Weekend

Celebrate The 13th Year of Bushwick Pride This Weekend

Resist and party in the streets of Bushwick for an awesome cause this weekend.

Bushwick is Home to Some of the Fastest Rising Rents in NYC

Bushwick is Home to Some of the Fastest Rising Rents in NYC

Everyone knows that Bushwick rents are on the rise, but here are some numbers to back it up.

A Bushwick Rezoning Battle Heats Up at 1601 Dekalb

A Bushwick Rezoning Battle Heats Up at 1601 Dekalb

Housing Activists Score Against the Development of the Broadway Triangle in Bushwick

Housing Activists Score Against the Development of the Broadway Triangle in Bushwick

A temporary restraining order has halted the development of this small, but very controversial patch of land.

Silent Barn, an Iconic DIY Venue in Bushwick, Will Close in April

Silent Barn, an Iconic DIY Venue in Bushwick, Will Close in April

The space is shutting down due to financial reasons.

Planning the Future of Bushwick’s Affordable Housing Is Still Controversial

Planning the Future of Bushwick’s Affordable Housing Is Still Controversial

The City Will Spend $1M to Boost a Door-to-Door Outreach to Help Struggling Tenants in Bushwick

The City Will Spend $1M to Boost a Door-to-Door Outreach to Help Struggling Tenants in Bushwick

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that his office will bolster the Tenant Support Unit, a team that reaches out to low-income residents facing eviction and landlord harassment.

Local Historian Who Experienced the 1977 Blackout and Fire Explains How it Changed Bushwick Forever

Local Historian Who Experienced the 1977 Blackout and Fire Explains How it Changed Bushwick Forever

Bushwick Residents Designed a Neighborhood Map for Housing Advocacy—Learn to Use it This Thursday!

Bushwick Residents Designed a Neighborhood Map for Housing Advocacy—Learn to Use it This Thursday!

The Bushwick Community Map integrates data from city records into an easily navigable resource for tenants and homeowners trying to stay abreast of changes to the neighborhood’s housing landscape.

How Local Advocates Want to Address Bushwick’s Race, Class & Affordable Housing Issues

How Local Advocates Want to Address Bushwick’s Race, Class & Affordable Housing Issues

An expert panel on gentrification versus affordable housing in New York City filled audience members with frustration—and hope.

At MayDay Space Town Hall, Arts in Bushwick Discusses Bushwick Open Studios Updates

At MayDay Space Town Hall, Arts in Bushwick Discusses Bushwick Open Studios Updates

Local arts organization Arts in Bushwick held a much anticipated town hall meeting Wednesday night to discuss the decennial of popular annual Bushwick Open Studios, which will be held on the first weekend of October this year, announcing some programming changes and providing the public with opportunities to give input and find a way to get involved as volunteers in the BOS planning process

Talking Gentrification with Ridgewood Native and BuzzFeed Copy Chief Emmy Favilla

Talking Gentrification with Ridgewood Native and BuzzFeed Copy Chief Emmy Favilla

BuzzFeed’s Emmy Favilla recently published a powerful essay on her experiences as a forever Ridgewood resident and why her background makes putting down roots in the neighborhood as an adult a complicated thing to do

Bushwick Artists To Host Cross-Borough Double Bill of Anti-Gentrification Community Arts Events Saturday

Bushwick Artists To Host Cross-Borough Double Bill of Anti-Gentrification Community Arts Events Saturday

Two back to back arts events organized by long time Bushwick artists and residents are scheduled for this Saturday, and both events are intended to serve as forums for community engagement with rampant gentrification and its affects on Bushwick and greater Brooklyn

Bushwick Homes Will Be Illuminated in Protest Against Gentrification This Winter

Bushwick Homes Will Be Illuminated in Protest Against Gentrification This Winter

Don’t be surprised when you find Bushwick homes aglow in a silent protest of lights this winter

Our Material Selections: Live Subject Matter and Objects of Absurdity Appear In This Week’s Newest Art Shows

Our Material Selections: Live Subject Matter and Objects of Absurdity Appear In This Week’s Newest Art Shows

We acquire our materials quite obviously in the same way we do our friends: by choice

Bring Your Sunblock: Lorimoto Block Party, Polaroid Nostalgia and Plenty of Art For The Weekend!

Bring Your Sunblock: Lorimoto Block Party, Polaroid Nostalgia and Plenty of Art For The Weekend!

Summer doesn’t stop until we’ve used up all of our sunblock! Soak up the warm vibes this Saturday with a block party and opening reception at Lorimoto Gallery

“Postcards From the Edge: Oral History of Gentrification” Is an Eye-Opening Summer Read

“Postcards From the Edge: Oral History of Gentrification” Is an Eye-Opening Summer Read

DW Gibson discusses his new book on gentrification with author Mark Binelli “It’s funny because I remember growing up in Bushwick, six blocks from here. I was a nerd, and people would say, ‘Where you from?’ I had to drop it in a certain way: ‘Yo, I grew up in Bushwick.” People would be all, […]

Is the Developer of Rheingold Luxury Condos Avoiding Promised Affordable Housing?

Is the Developer of Rheingold Luxury Condos Avoiding Promised Affordable Housing?

A civic organization, North West Bushwick Community (NWBC), whose missions is to advocate against the displacement of Bushwick’s longtime working-class residents and for accountability from developers, has requested that members of Bushwick community sign a petition pressuring the developer of Rheingold luxury condos to build promised affordable housing and to provide local jobs

Group Encouraging Bushwick Residents to Stand Up to Shady Landlords Rallies Tomorrow in Maria Hernandez Park

Group Encouraging Bushwick Residents to Stand Up to Shady Landlords Rallies Tomorrow in Maria Hernandez Park

Ask any New Yorker about a bad experience with a landlord, and they’ll probably have a story or two to tell

Do Good in Bushwick: 10 Volunteer Organizations to Get Involved In

Do Good in Bushwick: 10 Volunteer Organizations to Get Involved In

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

TEDxBushwick This Past Saturday Partially Touched Upon the Burning Issues of Our Community

TEDxBushwick This Past Saturday Partially Touched Upon the Burning Issues of Our Community

Bushwick of the previous decade has rapidly transformed from New York’s “forgotten” neighborhood into a synonym of hipness and trendiness

Two Natives Opened a Massive Photo & Video off Halsey L, The Wyckoff

Two Natives Opened a Massive Photo & Video off Halsey L, The Wyckoff

It’s the end of January

Star-Spangled Art Picks for Your Fourth

Star-Spangled Art Picks for Your Fourth

The much-anticipated long holiday weekend is nearly here, and while many of us are busy planning our backyard barbecues or seeking rooftops for fireworks viewing, select Bushwick galleries will also be holding opening receptions Saturday and Sunday to add to the July 4th festivities

5 Art Events this Weekend to Lift Your Spirits!

5 Art Events this Weekend to Lift Your Spirits!

Hurray! A new month is upon us, and hopefully it will finally bring beautiful days and long nights filled with rooftop parties, bbqs, and of course, gallery openings! This weekend Bushwick embraces the month of May (which everyone knows means we are quickly creeping up on BOS!) with 5 unbelievable events that are all about discovery, new beginnings, and identity that are sure to get you ready to start your month off right

Jose Lopez from Make the Road Talks about Illegal Practices of Bushwick Landlords

Jose Lopez from Make the Road Talks about Illegal Practices of Bushwick Landlords

Around 100 Bushwick residents gathered around apartment buildings where long-term residents have been complaining about landlord harassment and rallied in defense of their tenants rights on Sunday April 6, 2014

Arts in Bushwick Held a Panel on the Future of Affordable Housing

Arts in Bushwick Held a Panel on the Future of Affordable Housing

All photos by Lucia Reed for Bushwick Daily On a recent rainy Sunday, I bundled up and hustled across Bushwick. I was coming from a meeting with the owner of Bootleg Bar, which just opened up on Myrtle and Bleeker, and I was rushing to a panel on affordable housing being held at Radio Bushwick. […]

Excellent Bushwick Hip-Hop Concert Helps Philippines Recovery Effort

Excellent Bushwick Hip-Hop Concert Helps Philippines Recovery Effort

While it’s been less than a week since our collective freakout over winter storms named Hercules and vortexes that are polar in nature, many people in the island nation of the Philippines are struggling to put their lives together in the two months since Typhoon Haiyan (otherwise known as Yolanda)

Non Grata Delivers the Unexpected at Grace Exhibition Space

Non Grata Delivers the Unexpected at Grace Exhibition Space

Last Friday, Grace Exhibition Space was overtaken with the infamous, dynamic and always entertaining Non Grata performance group

Read Property Presents Rheingold Plan to Skeptical Audience at City Council

Read Property Presents Rheingold Plan to Skeptical Audience at City Council

Representatives of Read Property made their pitch for the 10-building Rheingold project during a City Council hearing at City Hall Tuesday morning

Bushwick Primer: Why Is The Rent So Damn High? And What Can You Do About It?

Bushwick Primer: Why Is The Rent So Damn High? And What Can You Do About It?

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Live Streaming: Panel to Discuss ‘Building a Better Bushwick’

Live Streaming: Panel to Discuss ‘Building a Better Bushwick’

Live streaming video by Ustream

Public Hearing Regarding Rheingold Brewery Rezoning Is Today

Public Hearing Regarding Rheingold Brewery Rezoning Is Today

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

Antonio Reynoso on Bushwick’s Creative Community and Arts Scene

Antonio Reynoso on Bushwick’s Creative Community and Arts Scene

Antonio Reynoso, 30, is a Williamsburg native who’s running in this fall’s election for the 34th district seat on the New York City Council, a zone that includes Williamsburg, Bushwick and Ridgewood

Reading List: Skinny Dipping & Vogue Comes to Bushwick

Reading List: Skinny Dipping & Vogue Comes to Bushwick

Bushwick is disfavored and Roberta’s is SO hard to find, says Vogue [

Join Interactive Bushwick Then & Now Photo Walk This Sunday

Join Interactive Bushwick Then & Now Photo Walk This Sunday

Hurricane Sandy hindered our plans last year for a photo walk with Bushwick’s legendary photographer, Meryl Meisler