Archive for October, 2011

• BBQ ‘Hut’ Coming to Myrtle-Broadway

  June 19th, 2009

  The dining options on Broadway are about to expand into the non-fried category. Within a couple weeks, Bushwick local John Seefeld plans to open The Hibachi Tiki Hut, a small bar and grill…

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• Bushwick Community Board ‘Live’: June 09

  June 18th, 2009
  
  CB4 honchos Nadine Whitted and Julie Dent, together again.

  I am running horribly late (nearly an hour!) after covering some breaking news in South Side Williamsburg.  A small group of Orthodox Jewish abuse victims decided to hold a…

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• Guatemala’s Fried Multinational Blandness

  June 18th, 2009

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• Hip Hybrid: Zukkies Mixes Bikes and Vintage

  June 18th, 2009
  
  Zukkies owner Mark Jacobowitz chilling on a Break from the Bike Shop. — Photos by Joel Myers

  Zukkies is an unlikely mix: part bike shop, part vintage store, both sides fully loaded with furniture, clothes and just about…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 6/18/09

  June 18th, 2009

  

  Bushwick Music Festival is rained out! Join us at Tandem for Ledo y La Vaina around 7:30 or 8.

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  I can’t believe it’s almost the end of June! Where is the summer going? (And why isn’t…

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• Inside Bushwick’s Barber Shops

  June 17th, 2009
  
  Bushwick’s barber shops use lots of vintage equipment and cutting-edge technology.

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 6/17/09

  June 17th, 2009

  This week we’ve combed both craigslist and our new classifieds system for good deals all around Bushwick, and there’s something for every taste and budget.

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• Poverty for the Hell of It: Bushwick Tent City

  June 16th, 2009

  Three recent college graduates decided to be poor a few weeks ago and pitched one-man tents in the backyard of a friend’s duplex apartment…

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• More Broadway Triangle Drama at CB1

  June 16th, 2009

  The Broadway Triangle, the 31-acre brownfield site on the edge of Bushwick, will one day be remediated and constructed into affordable housing properties…

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• Can The Loom Spin a New Scene in Bushwick?

  June 16th, 2009
  
  New retail complex The Loom will open soon at 1087 Flushing/100 Thames. — Photo by Aaron Short

  Let’s start with the name Bushburg.  An amalgamation of Bushwick and Williamsburg, the property management company’s name implies having one…

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