Archive for October, 2011

• Flushing Farms — Whatever It Is — Opens

  August 31st, 2009
  
  Flushing Farms finally opened this weekend, sort of, at Flushing and Forrest. — Photos by Caroline Contillo.

  On an oddly-shaped little patch of land near the Morgan L stop, you may have noticed some greenery sprouting over the…

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• Bushwick Chic: Doing All Black Right

  August 31st, 2009
  Saran in an all-black ensemble on Morgan Avenue. — Photo by Molly Hamilton. Click to see full version.

  It’s a sort of chicken-or-the-egg argument; is the all-black outfit considered elegant because it’s so intrinsically New York, or do…

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• This Weekend: Bushwick Film Festival

  August 28th, 2009

  The third installation of Bushwick’s very own film festival takes place this weekend. In previous years, the goal of co-founders Kweighbaye Kotee and Laree Ross was to give a platform, or in this case a screen, to the locals, particularly those who had grown up in the community.

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• Bushwick House of the Week: 1200 Decatur

  August 28th, 2009

  This house at 1200 Decatur shares an interesting block with many types of housing, both old and new, attractive and hideous.

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• The Beating at My Front Door

  August 28th, 2009
  
  My reflection in the bathroom mirror before going to the hospital. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

  When people ask me if Bushwick is safe I always reply: “It’s like any urban area, if you’re smart and pay…

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• Album Review:
  Sharon Van Etten’s Because I Was In Love

  August 28th, 2009

  From the first track of her album Because I Was In Love, Sharon Van Etten’s voice comes on with the kind of pure tone that till then I’d only heard when someone rubbed a wet finger along the rim of a wine glass. That pristine.

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 8/27/09

  August 27th, 2009

  What a cool morning! Between that and the smell of cinnamon the girl next to me added to her cappuccino this morning, it’s feeling like a season change…

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• Bargaining for Bushwick

  August 26th, 2009

  Twelve years ago, Sociologist Nicole Marwell came to Brooklyn in search of an idea for her University of Chicago PhD thesis on how urban community-based organizations make decisions within the economic and political frameworks to improve the lives of individuals mired in poverty…

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 8/26/09

  August 26th, 2009

  This week, the length of Troutman Street is our focus. It seems to have spontaneously become the spine of our community — following in its (not completely) former life as a drug market.

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• Contemporary Art + Lil’ Wayne = Magic

  August 25th, 2009

  Two worlds met in an improbable collision on the New York Venn diagram when art curators mounted a multimedia art show devoted entirely to Lil’ Wayne.

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