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A New Documentary Explores How North Brooklyn Tenants Succeed at Fighting Displacement

A New Documentary Explores How North Brooklyn Tenants Succeed at Fighting Displacement

“The Method” identifies the strategy that has kept many North Brooklyn residents in their homes despite aggressive attempts to displace them. The final step? “Never give up.”

A New Report Analyzes the Steps New York Is Taking to Slow Gentrification in Bushwick and Beyond

A New Report Analyzes the Steps New York Is Taking to Slow Gentrification in Bushwick and Beyond

In its latest study, NYU’s Furman Center details the problems of the rental market, exploring how cities are trying to fix them.

Share your Experience of Gentrification this Sunday at Bushwick’s Owl Juice Pub

Share your Experience of Gentrification this Sunday at Bushwick’s Owl Juice Pub

Get Out There: So Many Amazing Things Are Happening in Bushwick This Weekend!

Get Out There: So Many Amazing Things Are Happening in Bushwick This Weekend!

Hilarious Fake Bushwick Apartment Listing Offers Up Treehouse in Maria Hernandez Park

Hilarious Fake Bushwick Apartment Listing Offers Up Treehouse in Maria Hernandez Park

A brooklyn resident posted the bogus listing to make apartment hunters consider the dire state of the housing situation in Bushwick.

Got Ideas on How to Fight Displacement? Bring Them to Mayday Space

Got Ideas on How to Fight Displacement? Bring Them to Mayday Space

The meeting on August 20th is set to bring together individuals and organizations fighting predatory housing practices across the city.

Bushwick Will Represent at the Brooklyn Museum’s Anti-Gentrification and Displacement Forum Sunday

Bushwick Will Represent at the Brooklyn Museum’s Anti-Gentrification and Displacement Forum Sunday

The forum takes place on Sunday, July 24th, and will feature speakers, musical performances, and discussions followed by a march which ends at a picnic in Prospect Park.

How Local Advocates Want to Address Bushwick’s Race, Class & Affordable Housing Issues

How Local Advocates Want to Address Bushwick’s Race, Class & Affordable Housing Issues

An expert panel on gentrification versus affordable housing in New York City filled audience members with frustration—and hope.

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

New Study Identifies Greatest Threats to Bushwick’s Affordable Housing

New Study Identifies Greatest Threats to Bushwick’s Affordable Housing

In a new report released by the ANHD, researchers culled data from multiple sources in order to find how many threats to affordable housing exist in many of New York City’s neighborhoods

Bushwick is Named 4th Most Gentrifying Neighborhood by NYU’s Furman Center

Bushwick is Named 4th Most Gentrifying Neighborhood by NYU’s Furman Center

In case you were wondering Bushwick is not the most gentrifying neighborhood in the city

Comic: Places Poised to Become the Next Bushwick

Comic: Places Poised to Become the Next Bushwick

This Week’s New Yorker Cover Captures a Classic L Train Visual

This Week’s New Yorker Cover Captures a Classic L Train Visual

Add this New Yoker cover to the long list of illustrations, essays, comics, tweets, and articles pointing out the many incongruities visible on the L train

Hundreds Marched to Protest Unfair Housing Practices in Bushwick

Hundreds Marched to Protest Unfair Housing Practices in Bushwick

On Wednesday, hundreds of people marched through the streets of Bushwick demanding visibility and accountability when it comes to

Today: Speak Out Against Bushwick’s Corrupt Landlords With a Vast Community Coalition

Today: Speak Out Against Bushwick’s Corrupt Landlords With a Vast Community Coalition

Hundreds of Bushwick residents take to the streets today to protest deplorable living conditions faced by members of our own community

Police Seek 2 in Connection with 17 North Brooklyn Burglaries

Police Seek 2 in Connection with 17 North Brooklyn Burglaries

Two individuals filmed on MTA surveillance video are sought by the NYPD in connection with a string of burglaries in Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick that have taken place over the course of the past month

15 New Places Opened in Bushwick This Winter: Which Will Be Your Spring Favorite?

15 New Places Opened in Bushwick This Winter: Which Will Be Your Spring Favorite?

This past Sunday, March 20th, was the official first day of Spring! The bar and restaurant scene of Bushwick is ever-changing, growing, and evolving, and this winter was a big season for that: now that the spring season is officially here and warmer days are imminent, let’s take a look back and see what new places opened this winter—they may well turn out to be your spring and summertime go-to spots

Talking Gentrification with Ridgewood Native and BuzzFeed Copy Chief Emmy Favilla

Talking Gentrification with Ridgewood Native and BuzzFeed Copy Chief Emmy Favilla

BuzzFeed’s Emmy Favilla recently published a powerful essay on her experiences as a forever Ridgewood resident and why her background makes putting down roots in the neighborhood as an adult a complicated thing to do

Bushwick Artists To Host Cross-Borough Double Bill of Anti-Gentrification Community Arts Events Saturday

Bushwick Artists To Host Cross-Borough Double Bill of Anti-Gentrification Community Arts Events Saturday

Two back to back arts events organized by long time Bushwick artists and residents are scheduled for this Saturday, and both events are intended to serve as forums for community engagement with rampant gentrification and its affects on Bushwick and greater Brooklyn

TONIGHT: The New School and Bushwick Community Advocates Will Teach You How to Keep Your Rent Down

TONIGHT: The New School and Bushwick Community Advocates Will Teach You How to Keep Your Rent Down

Before “affordable housing” became a politically charged buzzword, it must have once seemed like a laughable redundancy

[UPDATE] Here’s Your First Look at a $13 Million Willoughby Avenue Development Proposal

[UPDATE] Here’s Your First Look at a $13 Million Willoughby Avenue Development Proposal

Commercial mortgage brokerage Eastern Union Funding announced yesterday that it has arranged a $13

Police Seek Man Filmed Writing “Die Yuppies” & Drawing a Swastika At Bushwick Construction Site

Police Seek Man Filmed Writing “Die Yuppies” & Drawing a Swastika At Bushwick Construction Site

Police are on the lookout for a man who wrote “die yuppies” and drew a swastika in wet cement at a Bushwick construction site in the early hours of Friday morning

Developers Hassling Bushwick Residents, Here’s How They Are Fighting Back [COMIC]

Developers Hassling Bushwick Residents, Here’s How They Are Fighting Back [COMIC]

Note from the Editor: Apology for Problematic Use of Census Data in Our Article

Note from the Editor: Apology for Problematic Use of Census Data in Our Article

The only thing I really know about gentrification is that it is a very complex, multifaceted subject that triggers a lot of emotions, and not having those emotions clouding one’s judgment while in the middle of a heated discussion takes some serious Zen practice

Bushwick Homes Will Be Illuminated in Protest Against Gentrification This Winter

Bushwick Homes Will Be Illuminated in Protest Against Gentrification This Winter

Don’t be surprised when you find Bushwick homes aglow in a silent protest of lights this winter

For $60, You Can Buy “Gentrification In Progress” Barrier Tape From Street Artist gilf!

For $60, You Can Buy “Gentrification In Progress” Barrier Tape From Street Artist gilf!

A thousand feet of glorious anti-gentrification tape is now available for your consuming pleasure.

Are “White Bodies” Gentrifying Bushwick? A Look at Census Data [Updated]

Are “White Bodies” Gentrifying Bushwick? A Look at Census Data [Updated]

[UPDATE: Please read editor’s note regarding the use of 2000 Census Data in this article and an attached apology

“Postcards From the Edge: Oral History of Gentrification” Is an Eye-Opening Summer Read

“Postcards From the Edge: Oral History of Gentrification” Is an Eye-Opening Summer Read

DW Gibson discusses his new book on gentrification with author Mark Binelli “It’s funny because I remember growing up in Bushwick, six blocks from here. I was a nerd, and people would say, ‘Where you from?’ I had to drop it in a certain way: ‘Yo, I grew up in Bushwick.” People would be all, […]

Police Sketches of Bushwick’s Social Criminals [COMIC]

Police Sketches of Bushwick’s Social Criminals [COMIC]

Somebody Made a Parody Video About Colonization of Bushwick, The Pioneers of Bushwick

Somebody Made a Parody Video About Colonization of Bushwick, The Pioneers of Bushwick

 

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

Open Letter of Love: The Hipster Who Grew Up In Ridgewood

Open Letter of Love: The Hipster Who Grew Up In Ridgewood

I’ve lived in Ridgewood for nearly 20 years

Make The Road is Marching Today Against Bushwick’s Luxury Development Colony 1209

Make The Road is Marching Today Against Bushwick’s Luxury Development Colony 1209

 

Obama’s Response to Bushwick Resident’s Letter About Poverty and Gentrification

Obama’s Response to Bushwick Resident’s Letter About Poverty and Gentrification

Maybe the fact that Obama (or someone on his team) actually responds to the letters people send him can make us maybe feel a little better after we filed our taxes just yesterday

Letter to Bushwick: At the Intersection of the Gentrifier and the Gentrified in Bushwick

Letter to Bushwick: At the Intersection of the Gentrifier and the Gentrified in Bushwick

“Letter to Bushwick” is a new column where members of Bushwick community are encouraged to express their opinions on matters important for the community as a whole

Danielle DeJesus Shared the Story of Her Bushwick at The Living Gallery

Danielle DeJesus Shared the Story of Her Bushwick at The Living Gallery

The Bushwick-born artist shared intimate photos from her Bushwick.