Archive for October, 2011

• Fotos: Hipsters Order You to VOTE

  January 30th, 2008

  
  photo by Hrag Vartanian

  This pop art grafitto is just before the Bogart L entrance. Haha, vote. Hey, it made a difference all those other times!

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• Fotos: Cypress Avenue Garages

  January 28th, 2008

  
  Begging to be a bar.

  I went on a stroll through the hood this weekend, and as I walked down Cypress from Palmetto to Troutman, I took photos of some interesting carriage houses and garages.

  
  Interesting but scary.

  
  Nothing…

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• Bushwick Clicks 1/26/08

  January 26th, 2008

  
  “Intact” houses, Troutman between Central and Evergreen, from the BushwickBK flickr pool

  ohai i can has car?: One brave glutton from NY Mag‘s Grub Street tried out SMSCab, a car company you can text instead of call. Yes, from…

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• 116 Troutman: Gentrification With a Roar

  January 25th, 2008

  

  You heard it here first, through several grapevines: 116 Troutman, aka “Troutman Gardens,” that gigantimus concrete thing going up on Troutman Street and Central Avenue, is not to be senior housing. It is not to be subsidized rentals. It…

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 1/24/08

  January 24th, 2008

  

  #1 — $1050 — 3br: What the hellll? Okay, here’s my analysis: this must be rent-regulated, which means that it must be in the lovely beaux arts and art nouveau blond brick building at 41 Jefferson Street, across from…

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• Fight Your Tickets, Bushwick!

  January 23rd, 2008

  

  Anyone whose responsibility it is to maintain their sidewalk in Bushwick knows how difficult it can be. The trash accumulation here is epic. I am always picking up bits of trash and do a full sweeping once a week.…

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• New Tattoo Parlor on Flushing

  January 23rd, 2008

  

  I noticed this a couple weeks ago, but I never see any activity here. The door is never open. All I can see is this marquis in the window, on the right end of the tortilla factory on Flushing…

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• Floridians Say Bushwick Is Hot

  January 23rd, 2008

  
  click to enlarge

  A friend in the hood whose aunt lives in Martin County, just past the civilizational borders of South Florida — NOT a cosmopolitan area, in other words — showed me this clipping from the local paper that…

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• Argentineans Take Over Williamsburg

  January 22nd, 2008

  

  Not sure if you’ve noticed, but there is an overabundance of Argentinean and Argentine-owned places to eat in the Williamsburg area, and now there’s to be one more. I personally know a handful of Argentineans who live in…

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• Grammy Comes to Town

  January 18th, 2008

  My grandma was in town this week on one of her occasional visits to see my 2-year-old cousin in White Plains. She and my uncle took the train down to Bushwick this Friday to see the house and have dinner…

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