BOS may be over, but Bushwick never stops making art

Two summers ago, Kate Chiplinsky decided to stop wearing a bra after her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer

I zigzag my way through the roaming Boar’s Head trucks and Morgantown residents wearing sunglasses and mismatched pajamas (it somehow works as a stylish outdoor outfit) who are smoking and loitering on the benches in front of Brooklyn Natural and Cafe Swallow

Welcome to Friday Foodstagram, where we round up some of the most appetizing looking insta’s from everyone’s favorite neighborhood establishments

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Meryl Meisler’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick’ (Image courtesy of Meryl Meisler) At the end of a very festive and blissfully summery weekend the folks at Bizarre were ready to celebrate the end of Bushwick Open Studios with as many bangs as possible. Madame Vivien V hosted a hilarious and vivacious set of lip-synching performances to the hoots […]

Valentine’s Day gifts are so obnoxious to shop for

Trying to find ways to keep warm this weekend? How ’bout hitting up some sweet shows and having a really hard time choosing which ones? Will you try to squeeze in and finally see Macaulay Culkin’s Pizza themed Velvet Underground cover band (The Pizza Underground) for free on Friday? Or perhaps you wanna get sweaty […]

A broken, naked Barbie doll hangs by the neck on a tree amongst a jumble of old toys including a plastic disco ball, a number of stuffed animals, as well as warnings written with paint on a wooden sign: “This is not a joke!” “Respect our neighborhood!”

In 2008, just 50,000 people were estimated to be e-cigaratte users, or, in the parlance of the lifestyle, #vapers

By Frances Gill, Allison Galgiani with illustration by Jeremy Nguyen

…It’s a day like any other, you just had your lunch when suddenly the Earth starts to shake, and then you hear “BOOOM!” And no, it’s not a bomb as many Twitter users including Kitty Pryde suggested, it’s simply another manhole exploding. Today at about 1PM residents of Evergreen Ave and Jefferson Street heard an […]

Bushwick is known for its epic “Girls-revered” party scene, so it’s not a surprise that a 420-friendly shop has made its way into the neighborhood

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Ridgewood, Bushwick’s favorite sister neighborhood, has been quite busy with many friendly events lately

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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

Bizarre, a new French night club in Bushwick, opened one month ago with a three-day festival

This is a follow-up to an

There’s a new restaurant opening in the neighborhood today, September 21, 2012 at 41 Wilson Ave. It’s called Dear Bushwick and the chef describes it as “ England meets Vermont”. Their back garden is quaint with barrel tables scattered amongst regular tables. The ivy-laden walls strung with Christmas lights gives it a DIY Bushwick aesthetic. […]

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