Look up and support your local community garden in providing sustenance and critical green space.
Calls are now open for the 2019 SAVI Volunteer Advocate Training Program.
“After the housing crash, back in 2008, they didn’t have jobs… And their families, they threw them out.”
Bushwick’s Still Waters in a Storm is helping kids discover their inner William Blakes this summer.
Though Bushwick thankfully escaped major damage from Hurricane Sandy, nearby Highland Park did not fair so well
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Ridgewood now has its own enthusiastic group of runners
A day out with Brooklyn Surf Club
The club’s non-profit arm wants to create a “grassroots community of advocates” around Bushwick.
A new local cycling group hosts group rides to breweries on Tuesdays. Anyone’s invited.
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 leak from the Supreme Court inspires two fundraisers at the new Bushwick club.
Here’s a whole week’s worth of free and affordable events happening in and around the neighborhood!
Eat at a bagel pop-up! Clean up the streets! Go to the launch of a new negroni!
Volunteers find meaning by giving things away in Bushwick.
The Bar Babes of Bushwick & Ridgewood return! There’s a hot concert at Bridge and Tunnel! A comedy show at the Windjammer!
The Ridgewood compost drop-off site is open from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. every Saturday.
Bushwick’s new city council member is asking the community to submit ideas for physical infrastructure projects in the district.
The citywide project is estimated to capture 55 million gallons of stormwater each year.
With over 74 drop-off or chipping sites citywide, find a Mulchfest location near you.
The bill banning gas hookups in new buildings is supposed to pass this week, all while local Bushwick residents continue to fight against the National Grid pipeline being built throughout North Brooklyn.
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.
Piles of trash and overflowing waste baskets have been permeating Bushwick for most of 2021.
This holiday season, here’s how you can volunteer your time to help others in our community.
Residents no longer have to take the 30-minute walk to Know Waste Lands to compost.
Ninety percent of the startup’s artists are based in Brooklyn, including several in Bushwick.
“Great news! Cleaner streets and sidewalks are on the way,” said Antonio Reynoso, City Council District 34 representative and candidate for Brooklyn borough president.
The DSNY is asking: What locations could use a corner litter basket?
Request an escort home, hail a cab on your phone or call your local Bushwick cab service!
NYC’s active Open Streets are mostly in “predominantly white” and “wealthy” neighborhoods, according to the study.
“There’s a huge need for all kinds of things here,” said Rooney. “That’s something we learn every single day. Housing, food, clothing, ESL services, definitely mental health.”
The Butterfly Project, a collage surrounding the narratives of immigration and migration, will cover an entire wall in Senator Julia Salazar’s office.
Puerto Rico’s financial oversight board, established by the PROMESA law in 2016, has “exacerbated the structural inequalities and austerity in Puerto Rico,” one local leader said.
Nicole De Santis, co-founder of Clean Bushwick Initiative, has a solution.
The hybrid event, running from October 20-24, is expected to attract over 5,000 virtual attendees along with its usual local crowd.
After going digital last year, the Bushwick Open Studios annual art walk returns this month.