“People are becoming homeless.”

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.

Request an escort home, hail a cab on your phone or call your local Bushwick cab service!

Owner Caroline Gates Anderson says the nonprofit is really about creating community, especially for those “who are most at risk, most isolated.”

Amy O’Sullivan treated Wyckoff Medical Center’s first Covid case, a woman who also became New York City’s first Covid fatality. Shortly after, she contracted – and survived – the disease herself.

Two women of color started an inclusive, diverse, and body positive movement.

This small library bench is meant to educate and teach the community to share.

The community has banded together to create a Gofundme campaign for the 10 residents who lost everything.

The MTA’s top brass met with the public and elected officials at Bed-Stuy’s Marcy Avenue Armory on Thursday night to field the public’s questions and present two main approaches to scheduling L train closures during repairs to the Canarsie tubes that will start in 2019

Bushwick community members who occupy twenty-six apartments on the triangular block adjacent to the Myrtle Ave-Broadway station on the J, M and Z trains and who discovered last week that M train work will necessitate that they leave their homes for a definite 6-10 months and possibly much longer met Wednesday night to share their experiences and consider plans of action

L train-dependent Brooklyn residents, business owners and officials met in Williamsburg Wednesday night to grapple with the paucity of L train service alternatives

Canarsie tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn needs extensive repairs, which are currently projected to take three years

It’s no joke: New York City rents have skyrocketed in the past few years, and will continue to climb for the foreseeable future

In response to the recent pedestrian accidents that took the lives of 23-year-old Ella Bandes and of 60-year-old Edwin Torres, the MTA has rerouted the B26 and Q58 in Bushwick and Ridgewood

Ask any New Yorker about a bad experience with a landlord, and they’ll probably have a story or two to tell

Oh Ridgewood, my Ridgewood

Visceral, intimate and immersive, The Lady in Red Converses with Diablo at Arts@Renaissance is an experimental play that seamlessly integrates music, dance, drama, storytelling, and video

Newcomers and long-time residents need to work together for the future of the community, agreed the speakers on the “Building a Better Bushwick” panel at Bushwick Film Festival on Saturday, which we livestreamed and is available to watch in full above

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By Katarina Hybenova

The first of 5 plays commissioned as part of a Working Theater initiative to tell the stories of New Yorkers from all over the city is complete—and it’s coming to Bushwick

New York City Council member Rafael Espinal’s district stretches from Bushwick to Cypress Hills and encompasses a hotly debated part of the city in East New York which is slated for rezoning and redevelopment

Bushwick may be an international art world hub, but one of the Silent Barn’s current exhibitions showcases talent that wasn’t flown in: the drawings, sculptures, photos and zines of local high school students who are a part of the Ridgewood Bushwick Youth Center art program Casa Experimental

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

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