Archive for October, 2011

• JMZ Advances 40 Years

  September 28th, 2007

  

  It’s almost 2008, and the JMZ line is still sending Bushwickers into Manhattan on rickety, smelly old trains from 1969. This may be about to change: Mike reports that this past Monday they ran those shiny new trains…

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• Cleaning Up Finally Pays Off

  September 28th, 2007

  

  Last night after work I cleaned the kitchen and took the trash out. When I got outside, I decided to sweep the front of the house: trash area, sidewalk, gutter, tree pit — I even swept part of the…

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• Fotos: Alternating Houses, Stanhope/St. Nick

  September 28th, 2007

  

  I thought the alternating colors on this block of houses on St. Nicholas between Stanhope and Himrod were cool.

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 9/28/07

  September 28th, 2007

  

  #1 — $960 — 1br: The best deal in Bushwick! Super cheap and all utilities included, even cable and high-speed internet! Attractive new kitchen and decent bathroom, this place was renovated right. The street isn’t fabulous, but at this…

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• Unicorns in Bushwick

  September 25th, 2007

  

  I used to hear jokes that seeing a white girl in Bushwick was as rare as finding a unicorn. While the recent influx in hipsters might make that term no longer applicable, there is still one genuine unicorn to…

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• The Bushwick Panty Bomber

  September 25th, 2007

  

  My yard is no stranger to trash. It’s a good 2 feet higher than the neighbors’ because of the three decades of household trash tossed into the soil as a sort of emulsifier. But we have cleaned the…

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• Fotos: Robin Hood on Stanhope/Wyckoff

  September 24th, 2007

  

  We walked past this row of buildings with two faces in the lintels: one that looks like Robin Hood and another that looks like a Victorian lady. I’m sure there’s some historical cultural context that would make this make…

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• Things to Do, People to See

  September 24th, 2007

  
  photo by eppleart from the BushwickBK flickr pool

  For the first time in a long time, I spent Saturday night in Bushwick. And I don’t mean making dinner and watching foreign films until 2am. After we finished painting the…

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• Tasty Bushwick Craigslist Personals

  September 21st, 2007

  Maybe you’ll find your soulmate?

  Special Bushwick Friend – m4w – 25
  Selling Points:

  “I am just looking for someone who is sincere, and likes making love.
  And by making love, I mean fucking each other”

  Also, I like

  …

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 9/20/07

  September 21st, 2007

  

  #1 — $1800 — 2br: I like honesty: “Don’t care about a long walk to the subway?” Looks like a good renovation, nice fixtures, wood floors, big windows. The huge fonts and colors of the ad are annoying and…

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