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Instagram Takeover – Ariel Churnin – Fall foliage, tree, changing colors Rough winter winds and the lack of sunshine are conducive to start feeling blue. And even Bushwick, an old good friend who was highfiving us all summer is suddenly all grey and cold. But Bushwick, you can’t fool us, there’s so much to appreciate you! Just […]

Just a little too often I’ve been hearing this August that nothing important happens before the Labor Day

Bushwick Farmers’ Market is back! Our local purveyor of farm-fresh produce returns Saturday, May 31 to its flagship location in Maria Hernandez Park

This week’s Friday First features the full-length album Slip Away from Bushwick babes gone big, Total Slacker. Friday First is a weekly column premiering brand spanking new releases from local, national, and international bands. Total Slacker’s second album hit the airwaves earlier this week on Black Bell/ADA Records, following 2011’s lo-fi debut Thrashin’. The band is known for their quirky sense of […]

By Katarina Hybenova, Maria Gotay, Jeremy Nguyen, Frances Gill, Emilie Ruscoe, Ashley Mathus and Loren DiBlasi

Bicycle Roots, a full service bike shop located on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights, recently relocated from their former spot on Fulton

If you’re dreaming of listening to kickass rock music while enjoying some homemade barbecue and being surrounded by motorcycles (or if you secretly would love to be motorcycle chick Lana Del Rey in her “Ride” video) then you are just in luck! The Shop Brooklyn, the first and only legal bar operating in a motorcycle shop in NYC, is set to reopen off the Jefferson stop this  summer

There is a steady hum that has begun to permeate the streets of Bushwick

Silent Barn has just announced an Aftermath Class series to accompany their Aftermath Supplies art supplies store, yet another example of how prosperous the new DIY music venue and community space is shaping out to be! These classes – which are quite affordable and run every, or every other, Wednesday evening – act as introductions to a whole realm of skills and trades, from bike repairs to drumming!

Who needs Central Park when you have Maria Hernandez Park? Shopping at dollar stores on Knickerbocker Ave, scenic walks on Johnson Ave and romantic counting of rats on the tracks of the L train

Sometimes it seems like our whole live revolves around the L train – a harrowing fact considering most of us have either been cursed out by a sassy teenage girl or seen someone strip down to their skivvies during the long commute home

While walking down Forrest Street during this past summer, I’d often see an open garage door

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Text by Hilary Lamb + Photos by Alexandra Uzik

Welcome to our three-part series called “LIC for Brooklynites,” the QueensNYC guide to LIC for Brooklyn folks

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

Tyrome Tripoli parks my bike in his Troutman St. studio just seconds before the pouring rain starts. Thick fat raindrops here and there should have been a warning enough before this summer mayhem. “This won’t last more than 20 minutes.” Ty says. “It took me a while to figure out New York summer rain. But […]

Bushwick is like a rough little alien animal that looks ugly on the first sight. Many people wrinkle their foreheads and noses in disagreement, when looking at it as if it smelled bad. But if you look closer, your heart has to melt, because this little alien animal has the friendliest soul. One of the […]

I have always felt this mixture of sorrow and fascination with the birds captured in large halls after they accidentally flew in. There is one in Staten Island Ferry Hall flying in circles above my head in confusion as I’m sipping weak coffee and walking in circles myself, because I’m unable to sit still. Soon […]

Maybe you squinted last night until 3am with the flickering light of your $9