Archive for October, 2011
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Bushwick Urban Archaeology: Safe Sex Sty
September 30th, 2008
You don’t expect the kind of people who use their back yard as a trash dump to ever bother with something as responsible as condom use. And yet, the former residents of my house seem to have had far…
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Lolitas and Goths on the Rise in Bushwick
September 30th, 2008
Ellie Frye of Bushwick, inspired by her Japanese counterparts.I mostly see them by the Morgan stop, since those kiddies tend to be younger and more… ridiculous? than those of us on the other side of Flushing. It’s actually an…
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Locate This Photo: Curvy Elevated?
September 29th, 2008
Found this awesome photo of elevated tracks on flickr, but I can’t figure out exactly where it might be. Most of the storefronts are obscured by the track’s pillars and contrasted out, and where in Bushwick under the…
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Priest Uses Children as Ideological Pawns
September 29th, 2008
I love the New York Times‘ David Gonzalez for his over-the-top use of metaphorical language — my first notice was in an article about the tenants of 64 Troutman (note the MLK ref), and now we’re really treated…
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Quinn: Appeal Itself Breaks Tenant Law
September 29th, 2008
The very “independent” tenants of 64 Troutman are suing their landlord under the new Tenant Protection Act which forbids the kind of harassment the tenants claim they are suffering in order to get them to move out…
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It’s Peak Asthma Season in Bushwick
September 26th, 2008
Asthma hospitalization rates for children ages 0-14. Bushwick proper in red, EW Industrial (Morgan) Area just to the north.Elena Gaudino, 23, moved to Bushwick early last summer for its modest cost of living and proximity to Manhattan. Though excited…
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Bushwick Culture Clicks 8/26/2008
September 26th, 2008
Lightning Bolt at the Todd P show under the M Train in Bushwick. The above and more pictures here.
Surfer Dudes. James Wagner saw them on Bogart across from Grattan. I saw one running down…
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Bushwick Eats Late
September 25th, 2008
There’s something about New York and eating late. And I want to show that it happens in Bushwick, too. I hope you had just as good a dinner as I did. We cooked empanadas. Actually, I took the picture…
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Bushwick Culture Weekend Picks 9/25/08
September 25th, 2008
Who’s ready for some super chill September nights? (Besides me….) This weekend holds all the promise of fall. Movers and shakers not headed out of the hood to spy on the DUMBO Arts Under the Bridge Festival, can…
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‘Royal Pains’ TV Pilot Shot at Wyckoff Heights
September 24th, 2008
Posted all around Wyckoff Heights hospital today, this parking notice let’s the neighborhood know they’re cockroaches compared to some shitty TV show that sounds so vapid it will likely be dumped before they film the actual show. So…
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