Archive for October, 2011
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This Weekend: Bushwick Open Studios
May 31st, 2007Do not forget: starting tomorrow night, it’s Bushwick Open Studios, mass neighborhood art show! Bushwick artists all over the hood, from Morgantown to the Evergreens, will be baring their studios for the public…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 5/31/07
May 31st, 2007
#1 — $2000 — 2 bedroom: This place is HUGE! You can see it just from the pics, but the agent says it’s 1350sqft. Two full baths. private backyard. That’s a house. Some great old details, sweet fireplace! All…
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Bushwick Real Estate Roundup 5/31/07
May 31st, 2007I’ll be doing a Bushwick Real Estate Roundup once a week, in the same style as the Bushwick Apartment Roundup. This will not include condominiums, which will be on their own Bushwick Condo Roundup (different market, after all).
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Ohhh Shit — It. Is. ON.
May 30th, 2007
The Changeling in Bed-Stuy challenges my characterization of Bushwick proper as the Bodega Belt, and that her hood might have more bodegas per capita. Mm-mm, girl, you need to take a walk up in here one day —…
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Landlord Blacklisting
May 30th, 2007
Does your landlord suck? If so, I’m sure you’ve complained to whoever will listen. Why not complain to the whole world on a searchable database of crappy landlords? A friend of mine has set up DontRentFrom.com, where you…
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“Offensive Gardening”: A Primer for Bushwick
May 29th, 2007
Today as I sat here working, I heard a metallic “tink!” coming from the front of the house. I looked out the window, and watched as one pre-pubescent boy handed the other an aluminum baseball bat. The other kid…
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Bushwick Food Coop
May 29th, 2007For some more up-to-date info on forming a Bushwick Food Co-op, please see the thread in the forum. The co-op described below was never formed.
So I went to the meeting for setting up a Bushwick food coop on…
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No Maybe About It: Yes! Something Cool
May 25th, 2007
I stopped by the “Yes No Maybe” building on my way home today, and talked to the owner, Jeffrey. He was out there sweating his balls off with the workers, fielding all kinds of questions from passers-by. When…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 5/24/07
May 24th, 2007
#1 — $1300 — 3 bedrooms: Holy crap look at the details! Moldings and woodword and ironwork and a crazy chandelier! It’s cheap, but no word if the 3 bedrooms are railroad, and there’s a broker’s fee and a…
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New Pizza Place Near Bogart
May 24th, 2007A few times last week I spied some guys bringing construction materials into the little house-shaped building on Moore near the corner of Bogart, but figured it was just another art or performance space. Wrong! David says the word…
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