Archive for October, 2011

• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 5/13/09

  May 13th, 2009

  

  $1400 — 2br: This block is one of the most beautiful and intact in Bushwick, leafy, quiet, and as yet, rather inexpensive. The unit is excellent, with original details kept where possible and tasteful modern touches — like a…

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• Is Khim’s Millenium Market Threatening Bodegas?

  May 12th, 2009

  Reporter Sarah Portlock gives readers a peek into the mind of Charlie Khim, the Millenium Market’s birth-giver, while providing some interesting background on the chain’s roots…

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• Slippery Slope: Engine 271 to Get Axed

  May 12th, 2009

  We now have confirmation: Bushwick’s Fire Engine 271 will be shuttered in July…

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• Feather and Folly Play the NK Den

  May 12th, 2009

  One almost hesitates to make too loud a mention of the band feather and Folly, because it’s the sort of act you hope you’ll always see in a small dark room with fifteen or so people…

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• Did Lopez Push for Son-in-Law’s MTA Promotion?

  May 11th, 2009

  MTA CEO Elliot Sander charges Lopez with demanding an undeserved raise for his son-in-law. For his part, Lopez denies the allegations and says they’re the result of Sander’s bitterness in being asked to resign from the MTA…

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• Artist Profile: Clothing Designer Hannah Shaw

  May 11th, 2009
  
  Designer Hannah Shaw in her studio. — Photo by Mimi Luse

  Working out of a tiny, meticulously organized atelier on Stanhope Street, fashion designer Hannah Shaw makes ethereal, one of a kind couture dresses with industrial twists…

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• Bushwick Starr Gears Up for Bushwhack Series

  May 11th, 2009

  

  It was one of the highlights of my Spring last year — a memorable night full of guttural laughs over Bjork interpretations, tears brought on by emotional egg puppets climbing newspaper mountains, a full-frontal guitar performance,…

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• Political Vandalism on Melrose?

  May 9th, 2009

  Highbrow/despicable: it’s an uncommon type of vandalism in Bushwick when something is removed instead of added, and for political motives to boot…

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• New Stuff on Bushwick Music

  May 8th, 2009

  Bushwick Music was launched last week, and already we have several great local tunes to put on our iPods. Get some sabor argentino with tango/jazz band Djangos and Tangos, “heady krautrock, 80s new wave, bubblegum, and disco” from synthy…

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• Green Village Junk Shop: Scavenger’s Wonderland

  May 7th, 2009
  
  Not much to look at, but Green Village Junk Shop gets the job done. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

  Come thrifty shoppers, young and old,
  Scour one man’s junk and find your gold! 

  As Summer turns…

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