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Two Events To Consider This Week: Meet Ocasio-Cortez And Illuminate Displacement

Two Events To Consider This Week: Meet Ocasio-Cortez And Illuminate Displacement

There’s a chance to meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and shine a light on displacement in Bushwick.

Friday Fast Facts: Bushwick Reigns as the Spanish-Speaking Capital of Brooklyn

Friday Fast Facts: Bushwick Reigns as the Spanish-Speaking Capital of Brooklyn

Bushwick has the most Spanish speakers of any neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Dawgs All Day Brings Community Empowerment To A Local Doggie Daycare

Dawgs All Day Brings Community Empowerment To A Local Doggie Daycare

City Removed Over 60 Garbage Bins In Ridgewood To Clean Up Streets

City Removed Over 60 Garbage Bins In Ridgewood To Clean Up Streets

The measure to save money by removing street trash bins has affected Harlem and Ridgewood the most.

Urban Agriculture Strikes A Win With Espinal And Adam’s Collective Charter

Urban Agriculture Strikes A Win With Espinal And Adam’s Collective Charter

Brooklyn elected officials announced a new joint sponsored legislation to expand urban agriculture and maintain community shared space at Ashford Street Abundant Garden.

Celebrate the 35th National Night Out Against Crime This Tuesday

Celebrate the 35th National Night Out Against Crime This Tuesday

Join other Bushwick residents and the 83rd precinct at Maria Hernandez Park for food and fun.

Council Member Espinal Launches Largest NYC Site for Urban Agriculture

Council Member Espinal Launches Largest NYC Site for Urban Agriculture

The website was launched with the help of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.

A Map of ICE Raids In and Around Bushwick

A Map of ICE Raids In and Around Bushwick

The ICE Watch map shows that despite NYC being a sanctuary city, a significant number of raids occurred just last year.

Attend a Free Broadway Block Party This Sunday

Attend a Free Broadway Block Party This Sunday

Ring in August with some summer fun and free pizza this weekend.

Longtime Local Creates Small Community Library on Knickerbocker Avenue

Longtime Local Creates Small Community Library on Knickerbocker Avenue

This small library bench is meant to educate and teach the community to share.

PHOTOESSAY: A New Orleans-Themed Evening to Remember at the Roundtable Senior Center

PHOTOESSAY: A New Orleans-Themed Evening to Remember at the Roundtable Senior Center

Bushwick’s Roundtable Senior Center hosted its biggest party of the year, a “Masquerade on Bourbon Street.”

Friday Fast Fact: Bushwick Residents’ Top Complaint Is…

Friday Fast Fact: Bushwick Residents’ Top Complaint Is…

Complaint calls about loud neighbors was the top reason that Bushwick residents have called NYC 311 in the first half of 2018.

Heat Advisory Throughout NYC This Week

Heat Advisory Throughout NYC This Week

Thanks to the heat and humidity this week, several city agencies are warning New Yorkers to take extra precautions.

The Bushwick Community Demands Justice for Luz Gonzalez

The Bushwick Community Demands Justice for Luz Gonzalez

Community Members Are Protesting for 4-Year-Old Who Was Fatally Struck By Car on Sunday

Community Members Are Protesting for 4-Year-Old Who Was Fatally Struck By Car on Sunday

Community members want to know why the driver that hit Gonzalez and her mother last Sunday hasn’t faced charges.

Change of Plans: Bushwick Won’t Get Curbside Composting in 2018

Change of Plans: Bushwick Won’t Get Curbside Composting in 2018

The Department of Sanitation has paused plans to bring curbside collection of organics to Bushwick and other parts of NYC.

Local Key Food Collecting Money to Help Family of 4-Year-Old Who Died On Hart Street

Local Key Food Collecting Money to Help Family of 4-Year-Old Who Died On Hart Street

So many residents have expressed their condolences and safety concerns after the 4-year-old’s death.

Beat the Heat in Bushwick and Beyond

Beat the Heat in Bushwick and Beyond

Though many Bushwick and Ridgewood residents have ACs and fans, there are families who can’t afford a cooling system to stave off the humidity. Luckily, there are public cooling centers in the area.

Eddie’s Bike Shop in Bushwick Is a Great Place to Get Cheap Wheels and Have a Warm Conversation

Eddie’s Bike Shop in Bushwick Is a Great Place to Get Cheap Wheels and Have a Warm Conversation

Go for an affordable bike and stay for the conversation at this locally owned bike shop in Bushwick.

Everything is Not OK: Bushwick Graffiti Artist’s Mural on Wyckoff Decries Trump Administration

Everything is Not OK: Bushwick Graffiti Artist’s Mural on Wyckoff Decries Trump Administration

The Bushwick Starr’s New Season Will Bring More Groundbreaking Theater to the Neighborhood

The Bushwick Starr’s New Season Will Bring More Groundbreaking Theater to the Neighborhood

The 2017-2018 season is packed with music, dance, comedy and more!

Bushwick City Farm Will Likely Close at the End of the Month

Bushwick City Farm Will Likely Close at the End of the Month

Bushwick Daily Just Launched its Community Events Calendar

Bushwick Daily Just Launched its Community Events Calendar

Plan your sunny weekend like a boss.

Bushwick Councilman Espinal Takes Steps to Support Environmental Legislation

Bushwick Councilman Espinal Takes Steps to Support Environmental Legislation

Rafael Espinal has vowed to act against a national move away from environmental progress. Take a look at his proposed legislation.

Sonic Jungle Aims to Bring Wellness and Environmental Sustainability to Brooklyn’s Nightlife

Sonic Jungle Aims to Bring Wellness and Environmental Sustainability to Brooklyn’s Nightlife

Sonic Jungle’s cultural oasis pop-up kicks off next week with eyes on a permanent location in Bushwick.

Bushwick Businesses Join the Day Without Immigrants Strike

Bushwick Businesses Join the Day Without Immigrants Strike

How Bushwick Millennials are Changing the Face of the Economy and the Neighborhood

How Bushwick Millennials are Changing the Face of the Economy and the Neighborhood

Photos: Thanksgiving Cheer and Delicious Dishes Come to Bushwick

Photos: Thanksgiving Cheer and Delicious Dishes Come to Bushwick

Churches United for Fair Housing and Bushwick’s Centers Health Care both served up Thanksgiving dishes to the community today.

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!

Supporting & Commemorating Orlando in Latinx, Queer Bushwick

Supporting & Commemorating Orlando in Latinx, Queer Bushwick

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

Submit Your Event, Open Call, Sale, Rental or Other Community Announcement to Our Daily Newsletter!

Submit Your Event, Open Call, Sale, Rental or Other Community Announcement to Our Daily Newsletter!

Hey again, all you Bushwick cats & kittens! Question: are you subscribed to our daily #CommutersRead newsletter? If you are, you know that every weekday afternoon you get a newsy email right in your inbox full of that day’s Bushwick news, pics, events & links

DeKalb Ave Fire Update (con Traducción al Español): How You Can Help Survivors

DeKalb Ave Fire Update (con Traducción al Español): How You Can Help Survivors

Co-authored with Spanish translation by Will Giron