49 years ago today, four young men entered a sporting goods store for a robbery that would soon escalate into a fatal shootout and hostage situation. With a new documentary film on the subject scheduled to come out later this year, Bushwick Daily takes a look back at the event.

Organizers “reclaimed” a vacant ground-floor commercial space in Bushwick on July 20.

“It’s Time To Open The Gates At The Gates Station,” declares the petition.

Broadway and Gates is the busy location of a subway stop, a convenient cross-Brooklyn bus, and now, a coffee shop to serve commuters and locals alike.

A Salvation Army thrift store will soon open its doors to the Bushwick public right beneath the tracks of Myrtle Ave-Broadway, Salvation Army sources confirmed for Bushwick Daily

Imagine the unimaginable, the uncomfortable, the unexplainable

By Jen Hitchings