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What Bushwick Should Know About the Upcoming NYC Primary Elections

What Bushwick Should Know About the Upcoming NYC Primary Elections

Head out to the polls on September 12 to vote in New York’s 2017 Primary Elections.

Developers at Bushwick’s Rheingold Site Are Limiting Affordable Housing Options

Developers at Bushwick’s Rheingold Site Are Limiting Affordable Housing Options

News is emerging that the original agreement between city council and Read Property Group won’t be honored.

As Bushwick Rezoning Is Put on Hold, Rampant Development Will Continue Unchecked

As Bushwick Rezoning Is Put on Hold, Rampant Development Will Continue Unchecked

A new community plan won’t come together until 2018, likely.

UPDATE: A Firefighter Died After a Fall from a Burning Ridgewood Building

UPDATE: A Firefighter Died After a Fall from a Burning Ridgewood Building

A member of FDNY has died after falling off a ladder while battling a two-alarm fire in Ridgewood.

East Williamsburg’s Trash Smell May Improve Slightly Next Year

East Williamsburg’s Trash Smell May Improve Slightly Next Year

The hot garbage odor is a result of a disproportionate amount of waste being stored in North Brooklyn, but there is a solution on the horizon.

Photos: ¡Calabazafest! 2016 Brings Spooky Delight to Bushwick

Photos: ¡Calabazafest! 2016 Brings Spooky Delight to Bushwick

UPDATE: Be There: The Date is Set for a Bushwick Community Plan Summit

UPDATE: Be There: The Date is Set for a Bushwick Community Plan Summit

If you’re a Bushwick resident, then please attend this meeting!

Help The City Help Bushwick: It’s Time to Propose Participatory Budgeting Projects

Help The City Help Bushwick: It’s Time to Propose Participatory Budgeting Projects

From now through September 30th, Bushwick residents can submit proposals for public projects—and If selected at neighborhood assemblies, the projects will be funded with city tax dollars!

The Short Documentary About The Bushwick Collective Drives The Gentrification Point Home

The Short Documentary About The Bushwick Collective Drives The Gentrification Point Home

“No Free Walls”, which premiered on YouTube, clearly explains how Joe Ficalora and The Bushwick Collective are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Exclusive: New York Loft Hostel in East Williamsburg Is Turning Into a 140-Bed Homeless Shelter

Exclusive: New York Loft Hostel in East Williamsburg Is Turning Into a 140-Bed Homeless Shelter

Bushwick’s Smallest Bookworms Get Their Very Own Celebration at Woodhull Hospital

Bushwick’s Smallest Bookworms Get Their Very Own Celebration at Woodhull Hospital

City’s First Readers is a new program designed to pool the efforts of major literacy organizations throughout New York to get kids reading.

Help Envision Bushwick’s Future at a Local “Community Plan” Meeting

Help Envision Bushwick’s Future at a Local “Community Plan” Meeting

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

Begin Again in Bushwick: A Local Church Will Host a A Summons Adjudication Event This Weekend

Begin Again in Bushwick: A Local Church Will Host a A Summons Adjudication Event This Weekend

You don’t have to wait until Sunday for your (minor) sins to be forgiven this week: This Saturday, a Bushwick church is hosting the borough’s 4th ever “Begin Again” event, which provides locals with an opportunity to resolve any outstanding low-level “quality of life” summonses they might have on their legal records

Bushwick Residents and Officials Talk Over Two L Train Closure Options at Formal MTA Meeting

Bushwick Residents and Officials Talk Over Two L Train Closure Options at Formal MTA Meeting

The MTA’s top brass met with the public and elected officials at Bed-Stuy’s Marcy Avenue Armory on Thursday night to field the public’s questions and present two main approaches to scheduling L train closures during repairs to the Canarsie tubes that will start in 2019

Photos: Officials Hold Ecuador Earthquake Vigil at Maria Hernandez Park

Photos: Officials Hold Ecuador Earthquake Vigil at Maria Hernandez Park

Borough President Eric Adams and other elected officials led a candlelight vigil in Bushwick’s Maria Hernandez Park Wednesday night in remembrance of the victims of the 7

Bushwick and East Williamsburg Residents Unite Against Trash Processing Facility on Thames Street

Bushwick and East Williamsburg Residents Unite Against Trash Processing Facility on Thames Street

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Come Tonight to a Town Hall Meeting to Close Toxic Garbage Processing Plant in East Williamsburg

Come Tonight to a Town Hall Meeting to Close Toxic Garbage Processing Plant in East Williamsburg

“Don’t Dump On Us!”

United Bushwick Community Got Rheingold Developers to Pay Attention Last Night

United Bushwick Community Got Rheingold Developers to Pay Attention Last Night

It rained in several short but intense intervals yesterday

Is the Developer of Rheingold Luxury Condos Avoiding Promised Affordable Housing?

Is the Developer of Rheingold Luxury Condos Avoiding Promised Affordable Housing?

A civic organization, North West Bushwick Community (NWBC), whose missions is to advocate against the displacement of Bushwick’s longtime working-class residents and for accountability from developers, has requested that members of Bushwick community sign a petition pressuring the developer of Rheingold luxury condos to build promised affordable housing and to provide local jobs

Group Encouraging Bushwick Residents to Stand Up to Shady Landlords Rallies Tomorrow in Maria Hernandez Park

Group Encouraging Bushwick Residents to Stand Up to Shady Landlords Rallies Tomorrow in Maria Hernandez Park

Ask any New Yorker about a bad experience with a landlord, and they’ll probably have a story or two to tell

Take Uber for $2.75 This and Next Weekend From Morgan L to Manhattan

Take Uber for $2.75 This and Next Weekend From Morgan L to Manhattan

Have you already banged your ugly roommate because the L train is really annoying on the weekends? Well, call that ugly romance quits because Uber will give you a ride along the L for a mere subway fare

NYC Community Gardens are in Danger: Bushwick’s El Garden to Rally for Survival at City Hall Tomorrow

NYC Community Gardens are in Danger: Bushwick’s El Garden to Rally for Survival at City Hall Tomorrow

A few weeks ago, we told you about the crisis facing Bushwick’s El Garden, one of the 17 community gardens on public land across the city at risk of being leveled to create new housing developments

NYC DOT is Planning New Bike Lanes For Bushwick! Help Them by Answering An Online Survey

NYC DOT is Planning New Bike Lanes For Bushwick! Help Them by Answering An Online Survey

Bushwick bikers, 2015 is starting on a high note! NYC DOT is kickstarting a community planning initiative to develop a network of bike lanes to serve Bushwick

Arts in Bushwick Held a Panel on the Future of Affordable Housing

Arts in Bushwick Held a Panel on the Future of Affordable Housing

All photos by Lucia Reed for Bushwick Daily On a recent rainy Sunday, I bundled up and hustled across Bushwick. I was coming from a meeting with the owner of Bootleg Bar, which just opened up on Myrtle and Bleeker, and I was rushing to a panel on affordable housing being held at Radio Bushwick. […]

And the Winner of the Democratic Public Advocate Runoff Election is….

And the Winner of the Democratic Public Advocate Runoff Election is….

Letitia James, ladies and gentleman!

Rheingold Rezoning Saga Continues at Heated CB4 Meeting & Public Meetings

Rheingold Rezoning Saga Continues at Heated CB4 Meeting & Public Meetings

Community Board members and Bushwick Citizens gathered Wednesday night at Bushwick’s monthly Community Board 4 meeting at Hope Gardens Multi-Service center, the first one since August’s recess and the primary elections

The Winners of (and the Runoff from) the 2013 Primary Elections!

The Winners of (and the Runoff from) the 2013 Primary Elections!

Good afternoon Bushwick!

It’s Primary Day! Do You Know Where Your Children Are Voting?

It’s Primary Day! Do You Know Where Your Children Are Voting?

Photo from https://www.whytuesday.org/2010/10/28/bloomberg-thumbs-up-to-san-fran-weekend-voting/ …just kidding, kids can’t vote. But you can! And you should, if you want to avoid having your neighbors assume you’re a clueless transplant from the Midwest. Be the change you wish to see in the world, keep your rent from skyrocketing, or get a sticker. And NYC is doing everything within […]

Bushwick Candidates Focused on Housing: Who is Who

Bushwick Candidates Focused on Housing: Who is Who

Bushwick is divided between the 34th and the 37th Council districts