News

Latinx and Queer-Owned Bushwick Gallery Closed Its Doors Due to Rent Skyrocketing

El Sóntano, an art space that focuses on starting conversations about culture and society, said its final goodbye to their space.

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News

Latinx and Queer-Owned Bushwick Gallery Closed Its Doors Due to Rent Skyrocketing

El Sóntano, an art space that focuses on starting conversations about culture and society, said its final goodbye to their space.

News

Bushwick Still Most Popular Neighborhood Despite L Train Disruptions

"Within the past year, interest in moving into Brooklyn has skyrocketed"

News

Evictions in Bushwick Are on the Rise While Overall NYC Cases Have Fallen

Roughly 28 percent of residents in Bushwick pay more than half of their wages toward rent.

Music and Nightlife

New Report Shows Brooklyn Nightlife Is Flourishing, But Why Are Local Venues Shutting Down?

There have been four reported closures in Brooklyn in less than a year—three of them, Silent Barn, The Gateway and The Spectrum/Dreamhouse, were based in Bushwick.

Community

Friday Fast Fact: 2,500 New Apartment Units Will Come to Bushwick by 2020

A recent report shows that Bushwick will be a hub for construction of new apartment buildings over the next couple of years.

News

Meet the Brooklyn Creative Earning Hundreds of Dollars Per Month Renting Out His Unused Equipment

Fat Llama, is a marketplace for lending and borrowing anything (from DJ decks to drones to motorhomes) which launched in NYC earlier this year.

Community

Friday Fast Fact: Families Are Being Driven Out of Bushwick

Data from the American Community Survey shows that the rate of families with children in Bushwick has been cut in half since 2000.

Real Estate

Bushwick is Home to Some of the Fastest Rising Rents in NYC

Everyone knows that Bushwick rents are on the rise, but here are some numbers to back it up.

Community

More Artists Have Moved to Bushwick Than to Any Other NYC Neighborhood Since 2000

A study shows a 1116 percent increase over the past 15 years.

Real Estate

Bushwick Is a Good Place for Recent College Grads, Report Says

The report compared rental prices with median entry level salaries for a variety of jobs.

Long Reads

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

Why are so many Bushwick millennials under-employed, and what it means for the neighborhood.

Community

Bushwick Studio Apartment Rents Just Jumped by Nearly 10 Percent, Report Indicates

An annual report by real estate firm MNS states that at the end of the summer, the average rent for a Bushwick studio apartment increased by 9.06 percent, from $1,925 to $2,099.

Arts & Culture

An Open Studio in Bushwick is Not an Open House [COMIC]

News

The Rents Along the JMZ Trains Are Not Much Cheaper Than Along the L, Shows a Map

A lot has been written about the insufferable rents of Brooklyn, with a particular emphasis on our neighborhood, Bushwick

News

Signs Your Landlord Wants You To Move Out [Comic]

News

Ask Sally, A Tenants’ Rights Attorney: Is My Rent Too Damn High?

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