Archive for October, 2011
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Seeking Decent Chinese Food in Bushwick
February 12th, 2009
Lee Garden topped the crummy choices for Chinese food in Bushwick.There are many tens of Chinese restaurants in Bushwick and for the past two years I wouldn’t step foot into a single one. The cornstarchy sauces and…
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Bushwick: The Man and the Hood Have Changed
February 11th, 2009In New York, rappers are inseparable from their neighborhoods. Biggie and Bed-Stuy; Nas and Queensbridge; Cam’ron and Harlem; 50 Cent and Connecticut. The list goes on. But what does it say about your neighborhood when it shares a name…
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Food Click: A Bushwick Ecuadoran’s ‘Go-To’ Food
February 11th, 2009NYT visits the kitchens of immigrant families and asks them to make their standard “go-to” dishes. Bushwicker Gladys Puglla-Jimenez, originally from Ecuador, plates up a simple helping of white rice and a side of brightly colored ceviche…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 2/11/09
February 11th, 2009
$1550 — 3br: Man what a deal. This three-bedroom has lots of good details, wood floors — they even put a marble countertop in the kitchen. Tree-lined block is very close to the train.
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‘Eastern District’ — New Gallery on Bogart?
February 10th, 2009A tipster sent in a photo of the storefront next to recently opened Olive Valley — what was a cruddy loading dock a couple months ago is now another glassy box to match its neighbors. Rumor has it that “Eastern District” (Bushwick shares Brooklyn’s Eastern District with Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and East New York) is going to be a new gallery…
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Poll: How Long Have You Lived in Bushwick?
February 10th, 2009Bushwick’s communities often seem stratified not as much by ethnicity as length of residency. “I was here before you” is meant to lend authority in discussions. So just how long have we all been here? Vote below.
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Umami Whips Up Some Community Spirit
February 10th, 2009
Chowing down at Umami.On Sunday, I had the opportunity to attend an invitation-only dining event in a neighborhood loft, experiencing an impermanent slice of Bushwick’s makeshift community spirit. Umami (People + Food) was promoted solely by word…
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Bushwick Galleries Persevere in Tight Economy
February 9th, 2009
Gallerist Austin Thomas, center, at an opening at Flushing Avenue’s Pocket Utopia.Flushing Avenue may well be scores of blocks away from Wall Street, but artists in North Brooklyn are experiencing the effects of the recession caused by…
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FUNemployed in New York City
February 9th, 2009
Original skyline photo by Diego Cupolo.With the economy reeling, and the New York metro area set to lose 181,000 jobs, it’s pretty safe to say that you or someone you know may end up being on…
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Band Profile: Blues Control
February 6th, 2009
Here’s another neighborhood band to put on your music radar — hailing from just over Cypress Avenue in Ridgewood is Blues Control, the improv rock-noise duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho.
The pair recently opened for…
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