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The Shuttering of Sands: New Cafe Closes After Owner Is Accused Of White Supremacy

The Shuttering of Sands: New Cafe Closes After Owner Is Accused Of White Supremacy

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.

Come Out On Saturday For The Unveiling Of The Bushwick Community Plan

Come Out On Saturday For The Unveiling Of The Bushwick Community Plan

The steering committee will finally present the Bushwick Community Plan, which has been in the works for over four years.

Luxury L Train Shutdown Alternative Takes an ‘L’ from Transit Advocates

Luxury L Train Shutdown Alternative Takes an ‘L’ from Transit Advocates

The luxury service wants to function like a privatized version of the L train, however it may be out of reach for many Bushwick residents.

Bushwick Has a Problem: People Aren’t Getting Enough Healthy Food

Bushwick Has a Problem: People Aren’t Getting Enough Healthy Food

Open Call for Poetry Submissions for January’s Edition of ‘Bushwick Bohemia Beat Poetry’

Open Call for Poetry Submissions for January’s Edition of ‘Bushwick Bohemia Beat Poetry’

We want your poetry!

Bushwick Graffiti Tours Educate As Well As Piss Off

Bushwick Graffiti Tours Educate As Well As Piss Off

This Huge New Office Space Wants Creative Types to Come Work From “Ridgewick” Off Halsey L

This Huge New Office Space Wants Creative Types to Come Work From “Ridgewick” Off Halsey L

Halsey stop, brace yourself for the arrival of a yuppie heaven.

How Bushwick Millennials are Changing the Face of the Economy and the Neighborhood

How Bushwick Millennials are Changing the Face of the Economy and the Neighborhood

Get to Know Bushwick Like Never Before Using This New, Data-Rich Interactive Map

Get to Know Bushwick Like Never Before Using This New, Data-Rich Interactive Map

Ever wondered how long the average commute of a Bushwick resident is—or what percentage of the neighborhood was born abroad? Find out using CoreData.nyc!

Here’s Why You Should Read This Novel About Coming of Age in 1970s Bushwick

Here’s Why You Should Read This Novel About Coming of Age in 1970s Bushwick

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.

Talking Bushwick Anthem “JMZ”  With Katie Lau of Painted Zeros

Talking Bushwick Anthem “JMZ” With Katie Lau of Painted Zeros

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Are “White Bodies” Gentrifying Bushwick? A Look at Census Data [Updated]

Are “White Bodies” Gentrifying Bushwick? A Look at Census Data [Updated]

[UPDATE: Please read editor’s note regarding the use of 2000 Census Data in this article and an attached apology

Top 10 Festivals In & Around NYC This Fall (Basilica Soundscape, Sustain-Release, Lock’n & More!)

Top 10 Festivals In & Around NYC This Fall (Basilica Soundscape, Sustain-Release, Lock’n & More!)

Time flies, summer sizzles, and the F-bomb has been on the tongues of a lot of babes lately

City is Sending 50 Sex Offenders for Housing to Bushwick’s Non-Profit for Homeless

City is Sending 50 Sex Offenders for Housing to Bushwick’s Non-Profit for Homeless

Several man in blue t-shirts can be often seen after dusk smoking and talking to each other around The Peter Jay Sharp Center for Opportunity at 89 Porter Ave in East Williamsburg, near Brooklyn Fire Proof

Giant Nelson Mandela Mural Appears Overnight, Transforming White Castle Parking Lot

Giant Nelson Mandela Mural Appears Overnight, Transforming White Castle Parking Lot

BOS may be over, but Bushwick never stops making art

Maria Hernandez Who Gave the Name to Bushwick Park Was Shot in 1989 in the War on Drugs

Maria Hernandez Who Gave the Name to Bushwick Park Was Shot in 1989 in the War on Drugs

 

Bushwick Resident Writes a Letter to Obama About Gentrification

Bushwick Resident Writes a Letter to Obama About Gentrification

Bushwick resident of Iranian descent, musician Elaheh Farmand, has been living in Bushwick for a little over a year now and has been seeing a lot of things that bothered her

On the 12th Day of Christmas, Give Your Loved One 12 Stories about Bushwick

On the 12th Day of Christmas, Give Your Loved One 12 Stories about Bushwick

Nowadays, it seems everyone wants a piece of Bushwick

I’m Standing Naked in a Crowded Town Square [Editorial]

I’m Standing Naked in a Crowded Town Square [Editorial]

This is one of my self-portraits taken in 2011 when I was a Bushwick rookie

10 Epic Music Festivals In & Around NYC This Fall!

10 Epic Music Festivals In & Around NYC This Fall!

If you’re like us and you loooooove music festivals, you may be quietly shedding tears over the (impending) arrival of fall and the end of festival season

Celebrate Award-Worthy Concerts This Weekend

Celebrate Award-Worthy Concerts This Weekend

Didn’t win a Grammy this week? Yeah, neither did we– unfortunately, we can’t all be Macklemore

Friday First: Grass Is Green “Sammy So-Sick”

Friday First: Grass Is Green “Sammy So-Sick”

This week’s Friday First spotlights “Sammy So-Sick,” the latest single from Boston alt-punks Grass Is Green

“Nu Age Hustle” at Momenta Art: “Raw, Phat and Trance-inducing – HUH!”

“Nu Age Hustle” at Momenta Art: “Raw, Phat and Trance-inducing – HUH!”

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall – HUH!  -Mos Def, “Hip Hop” (1999)

Chasing Bunna Cafe, Ethiopian Pop Up Restaurant

Chasing Bunna Cafe, Ethiopian Pop Up Restaurant

Bunna Cafe has become a staple in Brooklyn’s pop-up food shop trend, bringing their mouth-watering Ethiopian food to bars and fairs in Bushwick and beyond

BHIP Battles Displacement of Underprivileged Bushwick Residents

BHIP Battles Displacement of Underprivileged Bushwick Residents

How to keep tenants in rent-stabilized apartments

Stigma of Being Gay in Bushwick Contributes to Transmission of HIV

Stigma of Being Gay in Bushwick Contributes to Transmission of HIV

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Bushwick Mall May Look Like This

Bushwick Mall May Look Like This

[Update: Rendering of the mall has been removed due to the request of its author]     In December 2012, we informed you that a “grittier Chelsea market” or an independent mall seemed to be coming to Bogart Street. Brokers Massey Knakal were selected to exclusively market the space and mentioned Urban Outfitters or Guitar Center […]

Dr Lisa: Working Hard Can Make You Sexier with Artist Angela Washko

Dr Lisa: Working Hard Can Make You Sexier with Artist Angela Washko

As I pointed out last week, sex and partying are important, but to really have a healthy emotional life, working hard and being productive is a key ingredient

“What is Gentrification?” Anthropology Students Ask for Your Opinion

“What is Gentrification?” Anthropology Students Ask for Your Opinion

Anthropology students Sidsel Filipsen & Jonas Bruun Nielsen share some observations they’ve made studying gentrification in New York and Bushwick in particular

How was Confronting Bushwick

How was Confronting Bushwick

By Katarina Hybenova and Terri Ciccone

Botanica Elias: Magic, Religion and Culture

Botanica Elias: Magic, Religion and Culture

By Katarina Hybenova [singlepic id=506 w=640 h=427 float=center] Elisabeth runs Elias Botanica on 1252 Myrtle Ave, a place where you can get religious amulets or talk to your deceased relatives. It’s up to you which one of the Bushwick’s faces you choose to see everyday. You may choose to see galleries, trendy bars, poverty, dirty […]

Behind the Smoky Walls by Ray Henders.

Behind the Smoky Walls by Ray Henders.

Bushwick Daily proudly presents 6 photographs by Ray Henders

Write like a Punk with Eric Nelson.

Write like a Punk with Eric Nelson.

I hadn’t seen Uncle Punk since the wake of a distant relative ten years before