For years, Bushwick residents have worked with the city on a plan for the neighborhood’s future. Now is the time for action.

Music, art, comedy, and activism come together in a four day festival to give people options for how to get involved.

Your input is requested at a meeting about Bushwick’s future: Bushwick residents have teamed up with Brooklyn Community Board 4, the Department of City Planning and the offices of local city council members Antonio Reynoso and Rafael Espinal to develop a community based approach to balancing “the desire to create and preserve affordable housing with the need to preserve Bushwick’s character

This Saturday, April 30th, Bushwick’s Irving Square Park will be the venue for a newly inaugurated annual event organized to raise environmental awareness and provide resources for conscientious living to the Bushwick community

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

Before “affordable housing” became a politically charged buzzword, it must have once seemed like a laughable redundancy

SPONSORED—Beginning of the new year is a great time to freshly evaluate your mind and soul oriented goals

When I walked into my office after my first-ever acupuncture appointment a few years ago, my boss looked at me with wide eyes and asked if I’d been on vacation

On Friday evening a band of Bushwick artists wearing nothing but underwear and leotards gathered in front of the Lincoln Center in Manhattan and for three hours unfurled a guerilla-style conceptual-dance that gathered crowds and polarized even hardened New Yorkers

Weekend is so close it’s practically here now [she roars as her cats run to hide]. For the first time we’re bringing you #DoBushwick, our super-curated guide to the best of weekend events in greater Bushwick area on the website. #DoBushwick comes out every Monday and Friday as a newsletter (subscribe here!). The events are curated by […]

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We’re beyond bummed to report that on Troutman Street will be closing come December 1. Although the owners didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment, rumor has it that rent went up astronomically this year and the involved parties could no longer afford to stay in the work/live/yoga/party space. After 3 years in business bringing […]

A spectacular fan routine. Two hot days and nights of heavy drinking, nipples, genitals, a wedding, drugs, sweaty wigs, lip syncing, heavy beats, hardcore rifts and exuberant dancing. It was two nights of Bushwig this year and anything less would have taken the joy out of life. On Saturday the 6th, right in the middle of […]

This past weekend, Bushwick’s diviest dive bar, Wreck Room made wrecks out of its patrons for the last time in long nine years

We’re big fans of community arts & music venue The Knockdown Center

In New York City, where no not-for-profit worth its salt is without an ace development team, it’s quite possible that you already have End-Of-Year Donation Solicitation Fatigue, in which case, we feel your pain

Former members of shuttered East Williamsburg maker space 3rd Ward plan to hold a free public meeting and mixer at Brooklyn Brewery Wednesday  to discuss plans in the wake of 3rd Ward’s closure

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

“You always have to go bigger,” said artist and cultural entrepreneur Peter Hopkins, announcing his exciting plans to turn the empty warehouse at 299 Meserole St into a cultural center of the East Williamsburg and Bushwick area

Bushwick residents seem hip to the idea of making art for the community

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By Maria Gotay

[nggallery id=90] If you can imagine a hipster shopping mall then The Loom would come close to that. They have a lot of places you’d like to visit an even some that you couldn’t have imagined. The Loom shopping center is more than a mall, it’s a group of vendors at the heart of the […]

The Active Space once used to be a feather factory. Nowadays it serves as a progressive art center, artists studios, and a gallery. The distinctive feature of The Active Space is that the collaboration among the artists in the building encouraged through the events The Active Space is organizing. If you are an artist looking for […]