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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.

Everyone’s Running Now (For State Senate)

Everyone’s Running Now (For State Senate)

Redistricting moves and scatters a heated political race, while Elizabeth Crowley has committed to moving within the borders of wherever it is she ends up representing.

New York City Council Bans Natural Gas in New Buildings

New York City Council Bans Natural Gas in New Buildings

In a big move towards electrification, New York is saying goodbye to gas heaters and stoves in new buildings.

NYC Startup Curina Lets You Rent-to-Own Work Made by Local Artists

NYC Startup Curina Lets You Rent-to-Own Work Made by Local Artists

Ninety percent of the startup’s artists are based in Brooklyn, including several in Bushwick.

Things Could Be Different In Bushwick

Things Could Be Different In Bushwick

An Art Show To Break The Universe

An Art Show To Break The Universe

At the Amos Eno Gallery, José-Ricardo Presman’s surrealism impresses

UPDATED: NYC Protest Schedule for Today, Thursday June 18, 2020

UPDATED: NYC Protest Schedule for Today, Thursday June 18, 2020

A breakdown of the events happening today.

Play this Dr. Fauci video game and Raise Money for NYC’s First Responders

Play this Dr. Fauci video game and Raise Money for NYC’s First Responders

Fauci’s Revenge is part of the #BeattheVirus campaign to raise $25,000 for New York City hospitals and first responders.

Bushwick Nightly: The Best Diverse and Intersectional Parties in and Around Bushwick

Bushwick Nightly: The Best Diverse and Intersectional Parties in and Around Bushwick

You’re hot already. Take that sweat to the dance floor.

Smorgasburg Pop-Up Lands Location In Ridgewood

Smorgasburg Pop-Up Lands Location In Ridgewood

Billy Porter Wears Accessories from Local Woman-Owned Sustainable Jewelry Company, Reigning Grey

Billy Porter Wears Accessories from Local Woman-Owned Sustainable Jewelry Company, Reigning Grey

Reigning Grey is more than just jewelry.

Community-Based Project will  Research the Impacts of Cleaning Supplies on Latinx Domestic Workers

Community-Based Project will Research the Impacts of Cleaning Supplies on Latinx Domestic Workers

Lack of health insurance, coupled with harmful chemical products, only serve to create a potentially life-threatening work environment.

“Drive Change” Trains Formerly Incarcerated Young Adults for the Restaurant Industry

“Drive Change” Trains Formerly Incarcerated Young Adults for the Restaurant Industry

I was on the phone with Drive Change fellow Migdalia Wilkerson when she shouted to an unseen passerby, “Hi, would you like a flyer!?”

Welcoming Ramadan: a Guide to Celebrating Ramadan in Bushwick and Beyond

Welcoming Ramadan: a Guide to Celebrating Ramadan in Bushwick and Beyond

Here’s where to find you halal meals and iftars!

Bushwick Filmmaker Honors New York Women in New Short Film

Bushwick Filmmaker Honors New York Women in New Short Film

The film was released on International Women’s Day and serves as a gentle ode to the young women who shape New York with their own unapologetic vibrancies.

Bushwick Artist Deletes All of Her Social Media for New Art Show in Tribeca

Bushwick Artist Deletes All of Her Social Media for New Art Show in Tribeca

Alisa Alferova discovered well-being and muse in disconnecting from the digital world.

Peephole Cinema’s Latest Program “Relocated” Tackles Sexuality

Peephole Cinema’s Latest Program “Relocated” Tackles Sexuality

The opening of Peephole Cinema’s latest screening “Relocated” brought New York City based film makers and artists to Bushwick for a one night event.

A guy walked into a narcotics arrest in Bed-Stuy while playing Pokemon Go

A guy walked into a narcotics arrest in Bed-Stuy while playing Pokemon Go

Venezuelan Food and Art: Book Geraldine’s Home-Cooked Brunch on Cookapp

Venezuelan Food and Art: Book Geraldine’s Home-Cooked Brunch on Cookapp

All photos by Briana Seftel and Geraldine Maldonado for Bushwick Daily. Beet. Chia. Cilantro. These are just a few ingredients Geraldine Maldonado uses to make her arepas. Lately, she has been fervently mixing and mashing, trying to come up with new recipes for Homemade Food Gallery, her food-art gallery startup. Born and raised in Caracas, […]

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.

Our Absolute Favorite Bushwick Art Shows of 2014

Our Absolute Favorite Bushwick Art Shows of 2014

Consider a typical day in our neighborhood: there is always something happening, something new, something changing

“Nu Age Hustle” at Momenta Art: “Raw, Phat and Trance-inducing – HUH!”

“Nu Age Hustle” at Momenta Art: “Raw, Phat and Trance-inducing – HUH!”

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall – HUH!  -Mos Def, “Hip Hop” (1999)

Sunday Read: ‘Havemeyer in Bloom’ by Nathaniel Kressen

Sunday Read: ‘Havemeyer in Bloom’ by Nathaniel Kressen

 

Harmony from Noise: Modular Synthesizer Electronics

Harmony from Noise: Modular Synthesizer Electronics

My recent excursion to the Silent Barn last Saturday led me on an ear-opening journey into the complex and expansive world of modular synthesization

Defend Yourself on the Streets of Bushwick with Krav Maga

Defend Yourself on the Streets of Bushwick with Krav Maga

It’s about 11 on a bright and cold Sunday morning