Dry ice in the hole!

Celebrate National Gardening Day this weekend in one of Bushwick’s many community gardens.

Have you ever been harassed by your landlord?

The space is shutting down due to financial reasons.

The people have spoken and the votes have been counted. How was our city’s government changed?

City Council will decide the fate of the Cabaret Law tomorrow and Councilman Rafael Espinal says he has the votes to repeal it.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that his office will bolster the Tenant Support Unit, a team that reaches out to low-income residents facing eviction and landlord harassment.

The office will be responsible for making sure that the industry can grow in NYC.

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

Commercial closures in gentrifying neighborhoods are often caused by landlords harassing tenants into breaking leases so they can find a tenant with deeper pockets.

New York City Council member Rafael Espinal’s district stretches from Bushwick to Cypress Hills and encompasses a hotly debated part of the city in East New York which is slated for rezoning and redevelopment

Make the Road New York (MRNY), already a wide-reaching non-profit serving Bushwick and greater New York City, is expanding their programs and services through a new partnership with ActionNYC, a network of organizations providing legal assistance to immigrants

Residents of a long-neglected Bushwick building have been evacuated from their home, which the city has declared unsafe—but their cats remain inside, and the neighbor who promised to care for them is unable to get to them

Perhaps you need a hotel room to finish your popular sex column while your hot boyfriend is (annoyingly) fixing up the floors in your apartment, and the hotel is where you may or may not hook up with your mean, hot ex (OK, you caught me–I was thinking of that Sex and the City episode)

It’s no joke: New York City rents have skyrocketed in the past few years, and will continue to climb for the foreseeable future

A packet of K2, “Spice” or synthetic marijuana can be purchased for as little as $4

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

Photo via IDNYC From May 5-22, St. Brigid’s Church on Linden Street in Bushwick is offering residents a chance to get an IDNYC Card. IDNYC, the free identification card introduced early this year by Mayor Bill de Blasio. It gives New Yorkers discounted admission to museums, concerts, and attractions – even a 5% discount at […]

No one can say Bushwick backs down without a fight

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

Increasing affordable housing and creating community green space are both laudable goals to pursue in the ongoing evolution of NYC’s neighborhoods, but a recent decision from city hall to invite developers to turn community gardens across the city into construction sites for new affordable housing seems to pit the two objectives against each other

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Around 100 Bushwick residents gathered around apartment buildings where long-term residents have been complaining about landlord harassment and rallied in defense of their tenants rights on Sunday April 6, 2014