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Bushwick Music Venue Hosts Benefit for Immigrant Services

Bushwick Music Venue Hosts Benefit for Immigrant Services

Nov10 organizes musical event to support Safe Passage Project – a nonprofit that provides lawyers for immigrant children

Gun Violence on the Rise, Despite Lower Crime Rates in Bushwick

Gun Violence on the Rise, Despite Lower Crime Rates in Bushwick

Data shows that overall crime in Bushwick has fallen, however gun violence is on the rise in Brooklyn.

Two Local Artists Among Nine Women to Lead Hospital-Based Mural Project in NYC

Two Local Artists Among Nine Women to Lead Hospital-Based Mural Project in NYC

After 22 Years Bushwick Arts Non-Profit and Community Space Announces Closure

After 22 Years Bushwick Arts Non-Profit and Community Space Announces Closure

NURTUREarts is closing due to resource challenges and a shifting environment for non-profits.

Ridgewood Representatives Discuss Bills Impacting Local Rental Market with Community Members

Ridgewood Representatives Discuss Bills Impacting Local Rental Market with Community Members

How and what is impacting the rental market in Ridgewood?

This Brooklyn Program Is Tackling the Opioid Epidemic ‘After Hours’

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 about a dozen other things that would be impressive on their own.

Congresswoman Calls on Bushwick Community to Participate in 2020 Census

Congresswoman Calls on Bushwick Community to Participate in 2020 Census

Lift Like a Girl: A Bushwick Powerlifting Gym Centers Female and Non-Binary People

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, and Fuerza Latina.

Measles Outbreak: Bushwick Chabad Rabbi Supports MMR Vaccination

Measles Outbreak: Bushwick Chabad Rabbi Supports MMR Vaccination

So far, 285 cases of measles has been detected in the Jewish community with 246 of these cases in children 18 and younger, since October.

Clean Bushwick Initiative is Working to Create a Trash-Free Neighborhood

Clean Bushwick Initiative is Working to Create a Trash-Free Neighborhood

Three local women gear up to create a green and sustainable community.

Brownsville and Bed-Stuy Voiced Concerns About Police-Community Relations and Over-Policing

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 last week.

Brooklyn’s Participation in the 2020 Population Census Could Stop Federal Funding Cuts for New York

Brooklyn’s Participation in the 2020 Population Census Could Stop Federal Funding Cuts for New York

Census participation is not just a numbers game. It’s an act of resistance against the federal administration.

Local Volunteers Pull Together to Serve the Homeless of Bushwick During Temperature Drops

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.”

Bushwick Nurses Join Citywide Protest After Report Showed Severe Staffing Shortage in NYC Hospitals

Bushwick Nurses Join Citywide Protest After Report Showed Severe Staffing Shortage in NYC Hospitals

Nurses at Bushwick’s Wyckoff Heights Medical Center joined 13 other hospitals in demonstrations on Wednesday.

7 Ways to Give Back in and Around Bushwick This Thanksgiving

7 Ways to Give Back in and Around Bushwick This Thanksgiving

Ways to give back to the community during (and after) the holiday season.

New Zero-Waste Food Store Precycle Aims To Educate & Build Community

New Zero-Waste Food Store Precycle Aims To Educate & Build Community

Woman-owned shop will open on Starr Street next month.

Local Animal Rights Activists Organize Loudly Outside A Vivero

Local Animal Rights Activists Organize Loudly Outside A Vivero

North Brooklyn Cops and Kids Bond Over NYPD’s Flag Football Initiative

North Brooklyn Cops and Kids Bond Over NYPD’s Flag Football Initiative

This program is attempting to create a bridge between law enforcement and North Brooklyn communities.

Here’s How to Sign Up to Canvass for Senate Hopeful Julia Salazar

Here’s How to Sign Up to Canvass for Senate Hopeful Julia Salazar

Salazar continues to gain traction in Bushwick through her online and in person outreach.

A Vibrant New Mural in Bushwick Aims to Connect Us to the Earth

A Vibrant New Mural in Bushwick Aims to Connect Us to the Earth

Learn About Tenant Harassment at a Forum Tonight in Bushwick

Learn About Tenant Harassment at a Forum Tonight in Bushwick

Have you ever been harassed by your landlord?

Photos: New Cafe and Bar The Loft at Elsewhere Opens in East Williamsburg Tonight

Photos: New Cafe and Bar The Loft at Elsewhere Opens in East Williamsburg Tonight

Radioactive Hotspot in Ridgewood Means Some Businesses and Apartments Must Move Out

Radioactive Hotspot in Ridgewood Means Some Businesses and Apartments Must Move Out

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has got a plan to deal with radioactive material at Ridgewood site, QNS reported.

Bushwick’s Very Own Living Gallery Opens an Outpost on the Lower East Side

Bushwick’s Very Own Living Gallery Opens an Outpost on the Lower East Side

The space is much smaller than its Bushwick counterpart, but it still packs a punch.

New York City Housing Authority’s Resource Fair Brings Useful Services to Bushwick Residents

New York City Housing Authority’s Resource Fair Brings Useful Services to Bushwick Residents

Tomorrow, residents of Hope Gardens, Palmetto Gardens and Bushwick II are invited to attend a resource fair between 12 and 6 p.m.

Bushwick-Based Filmmakers Launch the Visible Poetry Project Tomorrow

Bushwick-Based Filmmakers Launch the Visible Poetry Project Tomorrow

The project pairs a filmmaker with a poet in order to create original art every day of April.

Your Dirty, Old Panties Can Become Part of a Set at a House of Yes Show This Weekend

Your Dirty, Old Panties Can Become Part of a Set at a House of Yes Show This Weekend

Donations are being accepted at Queen of Falafel until Friday afternoon.

Join the Doe Fund Tuesday for a Community March Against K2

Join the Doe Fund Tuesday for a Community March Against K2

“There was no help for New York’s poorest neighborhoods during the crack epidemic in the 1980s. That is no longer the case,” said a Doe Fund spokesperson.

Local Latino Activists Meet to Support Bernie on the Eve of Big Wisconsin Win

Local Latino Activists Meet to Support Bernie on the Eve of Big Wisconsin Win

Central Station opened its doors to host the first Bushwick event for the National Latino Outreach Team for Bernie

The Center for Independence of the Disabled Needs Help Surveying Bushwick Polling Sites!

The Center for Independence of the Disabled Needs Help Surveying Bushwick Polling Sites!

Not all polling sites are created equal, which is why the Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York (CIDNY) is looking for volunteers to inspect polling sites and determine how well they can accommodate the disabled in the upcoming primary election

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

Why a Single Community Board Vote Just Decided Bushwick’s Bike Lane Future

Why a Single Community Board Vote Just Decided Bushwick’s Bike Lane Future

This week, Bushwick’s Community Board 4 voted on a controversial Department of Transportation proposal to bring new bike lanes to the neighborhood

Bushwick Residents Receive Increased Access to Immigration Assistance

Bushwick Residents Receive Increased Access to Immigration Assistance

Make the Road New York (MRNY), already a wide-reaching non-profit serving Bushwick and greater New York City, is expanding their programs and services through a new partnership with ActionNYC, a network of organizations providing legal assistance to immigrants

Get in the Spirit of Sustainability at GrowNYC’s Stop ‘N’ Swap in East Williamsburg

Get in the Spirit of Sustainability at GrowNYC’s Stop ‘N’ Swap in East Williamsburg

In the spirit of sustainability, GrowNYC is hosting a free Stop ‘N’ Swap at the Williamsburg Community Center this Sunday

TEDxBushwick Is Returning to Our Neighborhood to Examine Collaborative Creation

TEDxBushwick Is Returning to Our Neighborhood to Examine Collaborative Creation

After its warm up round in 2015, TEDxBushwick is coming back in 2016 with even more ambitious plans and programming

Bushwick Open Studios 2015: A Couple of Super-Important Deadlines [Updated]

Bushwick Open Studios 2015: A Couple of Super-Important Deadlines [Updated]

The sweet memories of the summer heat; friends wherever you go; endless strolls through artists studios–that’s what comes up in our mind when you say the letters B