Ridgewood Rescue is a nonprofit pending organization addressing the neighborhood population of stray cats and kittens through its TNR (trap, neuter, return) program, socialization, adoptions and community education.

Resident-led groups can receive cash grants of $5,000 to support their projects.

An ever-evolving list of Bushwick organizations that are actively in need of volunteers.

A city-wide grassroots, volunteer effort called In It Together NYC, is tackling food insecurity to ensure New Yorkers don’t go hungry during COVID-19 pandemic.

A 24-year-old yoga teacher and cannabis advocate is working to change how we view womxn who smoke.

The UK music organization LOUD WOMEN, for womxn and gender non-conforming people, is kicking off their Brooklyn chapter with a show at The Well!

This fellowship will provide a lucky composer with six months of studio space at the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council starting in January and a $2,500 stipend.

The well-known phrase “Knowledge is Power” hit a little too close to home this past week at Pine Box Rock Shop, as they were tipped off by a customer that a beer they had on tap came from a brewery that wasn’t exactly, erm, in a nutshell, chill

Should we call it an end of an era or just a natural flow of life?

When I was a kid, my mother made me volunteer at a local shelter every Christmas morning

Image of Stop Patriarchy protesting in Texas. Courtesy of David Thomas and BITCH magazine. It turns out that NYC Porn Festival, to be held this weekend in the very liberal Bushwick will gain some controversy after all. And we’re not talking about Miley Cyrus submitting and subsequently withdrawing from her short and very soft bondage film. A group […]

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

A weekend-long annual celebration of the neighborhood’s unbounded creativity, festival Bushwick Open Studios is coming to its 7th year

A shooting last year at a charter school haunts an anti-gun violence rally in East Williamsburg

Safety concerns and money mixups now plague a luxury housing development In Bushwick

Ahead of intense negotiations over the New York state budget, Dilan’s former primary opponent says the assemblyman can’t be found.

The normally secretive group inviting the general public to celebrate Sol Invictus this Saturday in Brooklyn.

“I do credit the negative campaign and the mailers for the fact that we didn’t win”

Amid this weekend’s Brooklyn Book Festival, a few local writers met in Bushwick: “I’m gay, that’s why I moved to Brooklyn!”

Fundraisers held at 3 Dollar Bill by LGBTQIA+ group

A group of friends make a TV show. It’s about finding ways to pay the bills

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.

A mildly contentious lieutenant governor race gives a local career politician a possible comeback.

Voter suppression still happens in New York “in insidious ways”

Or try out ‘a food scrap demo’ to possibly reduce your waste.

Later this month, NYC BuskerBall hits Unit J on Moffat Street.

A pop-up paint class! A UFC Fight! A Garbage Prom!

For over two decades, Taiwanese artists have had a home in Bushwick

Watch a Lizzie Borden movie! Design your own collage! Try out boxing!

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at the Flying Fox! Support Ukraine at 3 Dollar Bill!

Volunteers find meaning by giving things away in Bushwick.

A Grand Soirée! Wet Cash! A Sunday skate sesh

New boutique pushes locally-designed clothes

Yvette Keong, Sarah Cahill and Nicole Cloutier are among those playing this month at the Box Factory, part of a series of concerts focused on tacking gender equity

Another whole week’s worth of free and affordable events happening in and around the neighborhood.