The steering committee will finally present the Bushwick Community Plan, which has been in the works for over four years.
The bill could help better protect local immigrants in their interactions with federal immigration agents.
Data from the American Community Survey reveals that more than one in four Bushwick residents lives in poverty.
The 13th Annual Bushwick Pride event celebrated Bushwick’s LGBTQIA community.
Resist and party in the streets of Bushwick for an awesome cause this weekend.
Discriminating against someone because of their national identity or immigration status is illegal in New York City.
Start your Saturday with an uplifting march and end with the ultimate block party!
Bushwick was the center of rumors about checkpoints and arrests over the weekend, making it difficult to separate fact from fiction.
Join MRNY’s Youth Power Project for a march to Maria Hernandez Park and block party to celebrate Bushwick’s LGBTQI community.
Commercial closures in gentrifying neighborhoods are often caused by landlords harassing tenants into breaking leases so they can find a tenant with deeper pockets.
Following a Supreme Court failure to make a decision on keystone Obama administration immigration legislature Thursday, local organizations and community members announced that they would be rallying today at noon outside City Hall to express indignation with the country’s lawmakers
This past weekend, the worst mass shooting executed by a single individual in United States history took place in Orlando, Florida at a gay, Latin nightclub, starting hours after Brooklyn’s Pride parade had ended and ending in a bloody standoff hours before New York City’s Puerto Rican Day Parade kicked off
Feliz Cinco De Mayo! Bushwick residents certainly don’t need a reason to celebrate New York City’s Mexican heritage, but it sure doesn’t hurt to have one! In that spirit, here is a list of some of the best ways to observe the holiday in the neighborhood
Co-authored with Spanish translation by Will Giron
On Wednesday, hundreds of people marched through the streets of Bushwick demanding visibility and accountability when it comes to
Hundreds of Bushwick residents take to the streets today to protest deplorable living conditions faced by members of our own community
Aside from living in Bushwick, many of us commute to work in the city and to other parts of Brooklyn, spending large chunks of our day standing smashed up against a subway window, working for companies with strict deadlines that have us grinning with clenched teeth. Now that I have you all riled up, allow me […]
When I was a kid, my mother made me volunteer at a local shelter every Christmas morning
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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 […]
Photos from MayDay’s Facebook Journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glen Greenwald, together with Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Pointras, spoke to a packed audience Thursday night on the top floor of Bushwick’s Mayday, a newly opened “bar and community space” on Starr street in northern part of the booming North Brooklyn neighborhood. Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty […]
Representatives of Read Property made their pitch for the 10-building Rheingold project during a City Council hearing at City Hall Tuesday morning
It’s been a real week here in Bushwick already, friends
Newcomers and long-time residents need to work together for the future of the community, agreed the speakers on the “Building a Better Bushwick” panel at Bushwick Film Festival on Saturday, which we livestreamed and is available to watch in full above
It is true! The big, awesome, sixth (!!) Bushwick Film Festival kicked off last night and continues throughout the entire weekend
Live streaming video by Ustream
Bushwick Film Festival turns six this year! From October 2nd to the 6th you have a great opportunity to get involved, whether by attending, contributing to the BFF foundation, or volunteering (there still might be a couple of spots available)
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
Bushwick is prime stop and frisk territory
This year, Halloween falls on Wednesday, October 31, and it’s the highest time you claim your pumpkin and get to work
By Katarina Hybenova
By Brian Douglas
