Archive for October, 2011
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Bushwick House of the Week: 175 Covert
February 25th, 2009
The bubble had inflated prices across the board in Bushwick to where a house at the end of the world was the same price as one on top of the Jefferson L. Now we’re seeing a cooling off on…
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Culture Click: Conni’s Avant-Garde Is Good
February 25th, 2009Time Out NY‘s Eliza Bent visited the hood this weekend to check out Conni’s Avant-Garde Restaurant, a theatrical dinner service held on occasion at The Bushwick Starr…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 2/25/09
February 25th, 2009
$1269-1289 — 2br rr: Advertiser Crifasi Real Estate has some good stuff in the neighborhood — two-bedroom railroads in good locations. The DeKalb and Irving one is particularly nice, with old details and a well-done kitchen. If you’re really…
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Bosna Express: Sarajevo to Ridgewood
February 24th, 2009
Bosna Express under the Forest M. — Photo by Willy StaleyBosnia and Herzegovina’s official tourism site calls the Balkan nation “The Heart Shaped Land.” While that is a nice sentiment — the nation really looks like an…
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‘Alternative Interactions’ at Market Hotel
February 24th, 2009
These Are Powers at Market Hotel. — Photo by Benjamin ShapiroIt seemed to be in a fit of cosmic appropriateness that, as the Dow average plummeted to the lowest point since 2002, my buddy Sean and…
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NYU Too Expensive? Move to Bushwick
February 23rd, 2009
If you have read any of the New York City blogs the past few days, you have probably seen posts about the 70 or so students who stormed and barricaded NYU’s Kimmel Center for Student Life last…
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News Click: Gray Market Housing Helps Immigrants
February 23rd, 2009It’s not just artists living in illegal housing situations — up to 500,000 people in New York City alone may live in illegally partitioned apartments and basements…
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Bushwick Artist Profile: Paul Salveson
February 23rd, 2009
Paul Salveson with his ancient basil plants. — Photo by Mimi LuseFraming his surrounds or sometimes interfering with his environment to create formal compositions, the photographs of Paul Salveson bestow the most banal objects with a…
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News Click: ‘Push-In’ Robbers Prey on Bushwick Area
February 21st, 2009In the last few months there have been several “push-in” robberies, in which a robber rings someone’s doorbell and when the door is answered, pushes their way in with a gun and grabs the resident’s cash and jewelry…
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News Click: Woman Killed by Bus at Myrtle/Wyckoff
February 21st, 2009A woman slipped on an ice patch and fell under a city bus as it was turning the corner at the intersection of Myrtle and Wyckoff. She was taken to Wyckoff Heights hospital and pronounced dead…
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