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This Beautiful Short Documentary Tells the Story of DeKalb Avenue’s Pigeons & Their Resilient Keeper

This Beautiful Short Documentary Tells the Story of DeKalb Avenue’s Pigeons & Their Resilient Keeper

Meet Gil, a lifelong homing pigeon enthusiast who had kept his beloved pets on the same rooftop for 27 years and who is currently rebuilding his flock.

Onward and Upward in Bushwick: Allison Ponthier’s Short Stories

Onward and Upward in Bushwick: Allison Ponthier’s Short Stories

Bushwick’s answer to Kacey Musgraves is a Texas transplant who generates feels from deep inside the major label machine

Take a Walk Back in Time: Exploring Bushwick History From the Early 1600s to Today

Take a Walk Back in Time: Exploring Bushwick History From the Early 1600s to Today

There’s a lot of history in these streets we call home. Take a second to look back at the 400-year history of Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Local Bartender Brings to Light Bushwick’s Millennial Alcoholism Through Short Film

Local Bartender Brings to Light Bushwick’s Millennial Alcoholism Through Short Film

A personal story of a local bartender explores the hardship of young adult alcoholism in Bushwick.

Bushwick Nurses Join Citywide Protest After Report Showed Severe Staffing Shortage in NYC Hospitals

Bushwick Nurses Join Citywide Protest After Report Showed Severe Staffing Shortage in NYC Hospitals

Nurses at Bushwick’s Wyckoff Heights Medical Center joined 13 other hospitals in demonstrations on Wednesday.

Bushwick Film Festival’s Founder Shares Her History in a Video for PopSugar

Bushwick Film Festival’s Founder Shares Her History in a Video for PopSugar

The festival itself is celebrating its tenth anniversary!

The Short Film ‘Welcome to Bushwick’ Will Make You Rethink That Next Date

The Short Film ‘Welcome to Bushwick’ Will Make You Rethink That Next Date

Filmmakers Hope to Expand Discussion About Gentrification with a Horror Short

Filmmakers Hope to Expand Discussion About Gentrification with a Horror Short

The film has a crew comprised of women and minorities and an impressive list of producers.

The Short Documentary About The Bushwick Collective Drives The Gentrification Point Home

The Short Documentary About The Bushwick Collective Drives The Gentrification Point Home

“No Free Walls”, which premiered on YouTube, clearly explains how Joe Ficalora and The Bushwick Collective are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Score a Free Sex Toy at Syndicated’s Screening of “Sticky: A (Self ) Love Story”

Score a Free Sex Toy at Syndicated’s Screening of “Sticky: A (Self ) Love Story”

In honor of National Masturbation Month (May), Bushwick powerhouse Syndicated is scheduled to deliver a hot and steamy evening on May 21st with a screening of Sticky: A Self Love Story

I Took My First Naked Yoga Class in Bushwick: One Man’s Story

I Took My First Naked Yoga Class in Bushwick: One Man’s Story

I did some personal grooming before attending my first Naked Yoga class

The Heartwarming Story of Cecil the Bushwick Kitty Cat

The Heartwarming Story of Cecil the Bushwick Kitty Cat

All photos taken by Scott Bleicher When I first moved to my current Bushwick apartment in the summer of 2013, there were about six cats in my backyard area. My neighbor across the hall met her cat after her door was left wide open and they’ve been inseparable for nearly three years. But what if it were […]

Tribeca Film Published a Short Film About The Bushwick Collective

Tribeca Film Published a Short Film About The Bushwick Collective

Just in time for this Saturday’s Bushwick Collective Block Party, TribecaFilm

Remembering that Life is Short and Sweet at The Domino Sugar Factory

Remembering that Life is Short and Sweet at The Domino Sugar Factory

Life is short, and life is sweet. Artist Kara Walker reminds us of the beauty and ephemerality of life and its comforts as we know them today with her show “A Subtlety,” also known as the “Marvelous Sugar Baby,” a sculptural installation inside the Domino Sugar Factory produced by Creative Time. The exhibition opened this […]

Bushwick Collective Founder, Joe Ficalora Shares His Story in NY Times

Bushwick Collective Founder, Joe Ficalora Shares His Story in NY Times

Joe Ficalora, a native of Bushwick and the engine behind Bushwick Collective, the massive street art site sprouting from St

Open Call for Submissions: Short Stories About Bushwick

Open Call for Submissions: Short Stories About Bushwick

Exciting news! Bushwick Daily and Catopolis are collaborating on a book of short stories about Bushwick life, and we need your help!

Conversations With Neighbors: Mitchell Borden, Co-founder of Ornithology Jazz Club

Conversations With Neighbors: Mitchell Borden, Co-founder of Ornithology Jazz Club

Mitchell Borden on societal expectations, jazz, cell phones, money, retirement, childhood and more.

Here’s How 11 Bushwick Landmarks Got Their Names

Here’s How 11 Bushwick Landmarks Got Their Names

Maria Hernandez Park, Mominette, Wonderville, L’Imprimerie, Irving Avenue and more. Here’s how 11 of Bushwick’s most notable places got their names.

Art Review: On Jefferson Avenue, These Paintings Haunt

Art Review: On Jefferson Avenue, These Paintings Haunt

A new timely art show in Bed Stuy showcases the spooky works of Cathleen Clarke.

Hospitality Under Siege: An Inside Look at How Bushwick Distilleries are Innovating to Survive

Hospitality Under Siege: An Inside Look at How Bushwick Distilleries are Innovating to Survive

This column’s opening entry profiles two business owners – a distiller and a sake brewer – and their navigation through the treacherous COVID waters of New York City.

Bushwick Notebook: A DIY Magazine Was Launched [Pick Up Locations & Photos]

Bushwick Notebook: A DIY Magazine Was Launched [Pick Up Locations & Photos]

Sometimes “DIY” just sounds glorious but all it really just means is that you have to do everything yourself

Bushwick Ain’t No Disneyland: Do You Also Find it Hard to Show Bushwick to Tourists?

Bushwick Ain’t No Disneyland: Do You Also Find it Hard to Show Bushwick to Tourists?

I zigzag my way through the roaming Boar’s Head trucks and Morgantown residents wearing sunglasses and mismatched pajamas (it somehow works as a stylish outdoor outfit) who are smoking and loitering on the benches in front of Brooklyn Natural and Cafe Swallow

On the 12th Day of Christmas, Give Your Loved One 12 Stories about Bushwick

On the 12th Day of Christmas, Give Your Loved One 12 Stories about Bushwick

Nowadays, it seems everyone wants a piece of Bushwick

Analog Nathaniel Kressen to Launch His Novel This Thursday at Brooklyn Fire Proof

Analog Nathaniel Kressen to Launch His Novel This Thursday at Brooklyn Fire Proof

 

Friendly Organization Ridgewood Social is Bringing a Monthly Flea Market to the Neighborhood

Friendly Organization Ridgewood Social is Bringing a Monthly Flea Market to the Neighborhood

Ridgewood, Bushwick’s favorite sister neighborhood, has been quite busy with many friendly events lately

The Bodega Monthly Reading Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary with Anthology Release

The Bodega Monthly Reading Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary with Anthology Release

When Robert Semple, host of The Bodega Monthly Reading Series at Bushwick’s The Bodega wine bar, talks about his performers or discusses how he puts the show together each month, you might mistake him for a smooth talking agent raving about the next big thing

Bushwick Reading Group: Shit-Writing Welcomed

Bushwick Reading Group: Shit-Writing Welcomed

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5 Bushwick Writers on How to Get Published

5 Bushwick Writers on How to Get Published

By Katarina Hybenova

Write like a Punk with Eric Nelson.

Write like a Punk with Eric Nelson.

I hadn’t seen Uncle Punk since the wake of a distant relative ten years before

Café Gentrificatión

Café Gentrificatión

The Rolo’s people take over the Acre. Of course, the chips and guac are $16.

The Way We Were, In 2023

The Way We Were, In 2023

From Post Malone to Punks for Palestine, we’re revisiting this year’s top local stories.

Onward and Upward in Bushwick: She’s Singing About Her Cat

Onward and Upward in Bushwick: She’s Singing About Her Cat

Listen to five new Christmas songs, some feline-themed.

If A Former Media Executive Opens A Karaoke Bar In Ocean Hill…

If A Former Media Executive Opens A Karaoke Bar In Ocean Hill…

Ex-CBS and Fuse producer says he now runs the only private-room karaoke bar in his corner of Brooklyn

It’s Pure ‘Poison,’ Playing At Unit J.

It’s Pure ‘Poison,’ Playing At Unit J.

“I feel like I’m trapped in here, sometimes, I’m never away from it”

Experimental Movies Play In Ridgewood

Experimental Movies Play In Ridgewood

“How many other films like this have been left on the floor?”