Archive for October, 2011

• Reading Is Fun: The Bushwick Book Club

  January 12th, 2009
  
  Chloe Simone Matheou with a colorful serenade. — Photo by Andrew Frisicano.

  Susan Hwang, organizer of the Bushwick Book Club, certainly picked an appropriate selection for the first meeting January 6 at Goodbye Blue Monday. The…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekend Picks 1/8/09

  January 8th, 2009
  
  Andrew Piedilato at English Kills

  I hope that everyone is properly rested up after the holidays, because the neighborhood is back in full swing.

  There is SO MUCH to do this weekend that it’s kind of blowing…

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• Bushwick House of the Week: 904 Willoughby

  January 7th, 2009

  

  Yes, I love this house at 904 Willoughby. It’s perfectly hideous, and a little small, but the cheapskate in me loves that it’s so inexpensive and still a two-family. It’s also a comfortable 22 feet wide. You can cuten…

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 1/7/09

  January 7th, 2009

  

  $1295 — 1br: Good price and you’ll be right in the thick of “cool” Bushwick. Walking distance to everything fun and interesting and delicious and caffeinating, and right near the train. Inside the apartment is a whopping 900sqft and…

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• Bushwick Urban Archaeology: Congoleum

  January 6th, 2009

  

  We have begun pulling up the several layers of parquet, vinyl, asbestos, and linoleum that add up to two inches on top of the original plank subfloors. Under all that mess is sticky tar paper, likely put down to…

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• Comment Avatars Enabled!

  January 5th, 2009

  You can now set your avatar — that little picture next to your name in the comment area — to the photo of your choosing! Simply go to gravatar.com and follow the directions. It’s based on your email so…

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• Brooklyn Daily Eagle Claws for Relevance

  January 5th, 2009

  I’m sure few of you read the Brooklyn Daily Eagle — the 170-year-old paper that covers a borough of 2.5 million has a little over twice the online readership of this two-year-old, neighborhood-specific non-print publication. But your attention is…

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• Two-Car Inferno on Troutman

  January 5th, 2009
  
  A local resident surveys fire damage on two cars near Troutman St. and Knickerbocker Ave. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

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• Bushwick Culture Weekend Picks 1/2/09

  January 2nd, 2009

  

  Happy New Year, Bushwick!

  I just spent some time trying to find some happenings for y’all, but it seems like another relatively quiet weekend around the hood…with the exception of a lot of music to be heard. Silent Barn,…

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