Sunset at Home — photo by teraflops

Employing While Non-White: Well, the owners of the Associated on Knickerbocker have been arrested — for falsifying documents in an attempt to save their asses against charges of paying below minimum wage. Silly men, don’t they know only rich white men get away with lying to the government?

Go Away, Guard: Yet another branch of the US military is looking to prey on Bushwick’s impressionable youth. What sweet cherries, these “underprivileged” young men are — their seeming lack of prospects in life just makes recruiters’ mouths water. Hey National Guard: Fuck Off.

Green for Guns: Wondering where you can finally get rid of that used and abused old firearm you been lugging around? Well the NYPD wants to pay you $200 for it — more than you’d get for selling it on the corner, right? With that kind of money, you could buy a shiny new gun. (Update: 427 guns were turned in, and will be turned into clothes hangers.)

Tragedy on Hancock: A fast-moving fire took the lives of two Guyanese immigrants, including a 12-year-old boy, in the Bushwick home they had just moved into. A 10-year-old is in critical condition. Please mind your stoves and heaters this winter and make sure you have extinguishers and mapped-out escapes — some of these old wood houses are powderkegs.

Needed: One Huge Febreze Bottle: The stench has one loft-dweller convinced that the “Asian Food Product Company” down the street from her building is manufacturing pure cancer.

Land That Time Forgot: A journey through Bushwick and Ridgewood with a bus driver and a couple of brothers the National Guard would love to get its hands on, highlighting the tensions that still exist on the neighborhood’s culture lines.

Transiting Back in Time: Awesome early-70s photo by Bruce Davidson of women at the Myrtle-Wyckoff LM station. Now that I think about it, is it the photography itself that’s so wonderful or is it the subjects that suffuse it with their innate fabulosity?