Archive for October, 2011
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The Old Timers’ Forum
June 26th, 2007I see a lot of posts on the blog from people raised in a Bushwick that only exists in their memories. So I figured it would be great to have a place for them to talk about all kinds of…
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For Rent in Bushwick
June 26th, 2007
$1600 — 2 bedroom — Melrose and Wilson: This second floor apartment is close to everything cool in North Bushwick: the Morgan L is a 5 minute walk, and all of the good places to eat and drink…
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Going Back in Time on Central Avenue
June 26th, 2007My house has seen a lot. Based on its size (small!), it’s probably one of the oldest houses on the block, and would have witnessed the construction of the brick buildings around it. It might have seen a rail line…
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Bushwick Real Estate Roundup 6/21/07 —
SoBu Edition!June 21st, 2007This week’s Bushwick Real Estate Roundup turns out to focus on “SoBu,” as the area south of Myrtle is jokingly called in these pages.
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 6/21/07
June 21st, 2007
#1 — $1400 — loft — This is cheap for a genuine loft. Top floor, tin ceilings, great windows… it’s a bit ratty-lookin but is set up in such a way that makes me think they don’t care what…
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A Bit of Miami in Bushwick
June 20th, 2007
We’re not in South Florida anymore, Niko.I think of my house as a little bit of Miami in Brooklyn. There are four of us in here from the Magic City, and depending on who’s home, the stairwells smell of…
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The Glorious Bushwick Knotweed Reconquista
June 18th, 2007
The battlefield.The Brooklyn blogosphere is filled with many tales of woe, of homeland lost to marauding invaders. The occupiers are called many names: that weird bamboo stuff, that gross reddish-green alien-lookin weed; but their true name is Japanese Knotweed,…
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No Sleep ’til Bushwick
June 18th, 2007
Skewville sneakers (Juxtapoz magazine)Official release from Ad Hoc on their latest show/event, “No Sleep ’til Bushwick”:
“Featuring artwork and installations from New York’s finest street legends… BAST, AIKO (of Faile) and SKEWVILLE along with special guest Chris Mendoza from…
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Morgantown in the Spotlight
June 18th, 2007The Brooklyn Paper visited Morgantown this weekend for its piece entitled “Bush-where?” They briefly reviewed all the places we’re already sick of (just kidding! no but seriously) after making an attempt to wade through the East Williamsburg-Bushwick label feud.…
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The Brooklyn Paper Embraces Organic
June 15th, 2007Organic development, that is. I’m not so sure many of the people opposed to the Atlantic Yards project would be the staunch foes of eminent domain that they are without the kick in the pants a cluster of giant…
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