3,125 businesses in Bushwick have received PPP loan money. The vast majority of loans given were less than $150K. Nearly 25,000 jobs have been retained.
Coronavirus numbers are dropping, let’s keep it that way. Get tested to protect your neighbors and stop the spread.
The app was developed by the Bodega and Small Business Association of New York and JungleWork, a tech company.
The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the election for Rafael Espinal’s seat until June but the candidates are still running and “politics is still alive and well in Brooklyn”
Bushwick venues are leaning in to live streaming to help you party during the Coronavirus Quarantine.
The letter dated March 30, is signed by 30 New York state lawmakers on the city, state, and federal levels, urges Governor Cuomo to withdraw his Medicare Redesign Team’s proposed Medicaid funding cut
The congresswoman, whose district encompasses Bushwick, has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives that would make the $600 weekly benefit provided in the CARES Act tax free
The Rolo’s people take over the Acre. Of course, the chips and guac are $16.
Years after hosting COVID-era ragers, the former ‘Illhouse’ now hosts poetry readings.
A mildly contentious lieutenant governor race gives a local career politician a possible comeback.
“I was able to let go of my grip,” the owner of one French restaurant in Bushwick says
The federal government has offered a new way to combat the spread of the virus: providing free Covid testing kits and N95 masks. But how accessible are they, and how can we get them?
Information on positive Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Bushwick and all of New York City.
This comes at the end of a year that has seen a significant increase in violence toward transgender and gender non-conforming people throughout the United States.
Testing lines and closures may remind you of spring 2020, but COVID hospitalizations and deaths remain comparatively low.
Information on where to get a COVID test, what tests are available, how much they cost, if you need an appointment and more.
“This is a wonderful thing,” said Robert Camacho, the chair of Bushwick’s community board
The advisory falls short of a full mask mandate.
After a year and a half, Bushwick’s DorDor art gallery closes its doors, as the co-owner of the space seeks new ways to accomplish her goals of democratizing access to the art market for up-and-coming artists.
The queer woman-owned shop opened its doors in July 2020.
In the meantime, the neighborhood offers food distributions, pantries and community fridges.
After four years of growing, the beloved lounge, musical home and studio, Wilson Live, was severely damaged by Hurricane Ida.
The display seeks to bring a festive holiday spirit and, in turn, increased economic activity to the area.
Korakrit Arunanondchai’s latest show is a meditation on death that will play on Johnson Avenue until Halloween.
Look up and support your local community garden in providing sustenance and critical green space.
The free store, a concept dreamt up by Bushwick Mutual Aid, is stocked with free clothes, baby supplies, furniture, household appliances and other donated goods.
Start with a rally, learn how to apply and end with a dance party!
Fencing has gone up, and some of the basketball courts have shuttered for now.
Though many have re-opened, local houses of worship in Bushwick are still feeling the effects of the pandemic more than a year after they were forced to shut their doors.
Though regulations have relaxed, the number of shooting permits issued for the streets of New York City is still way down.
While pop-ups Ha’s Đặc Biệt and Kreung Cambodia ended their residencies at Outerspace last week, they will be bringing their menus to Grimm Ales today and tomorrow.
Juan Ardila, the 27-year-old progressive, came up roughly 500 votes shy against incumbent Councilman Robert Holden, with roughly 46 percent of the vote according to early tallies. Ardila hasn’t yet conceded.
“The DSA needs to do a better job of organizing in those life-long Brooklynite communities,” say young Democratic Party organizers.
Police say the latest shootings mark the sharpest uptick in gun violence across the city in several years
