Archive for October, 2011
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33rd Council Candidate Levin a ‘Carpetbagger’
August 24th, 2009Turns out Steve Levin actually lived in the 34th district when he decided to become a candidate, before moving 26 blocks north into Greenpoint in order to be legally eligible to serve the 33rd.
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Bushwick’s Classic Rides
August 24th, 2009
This most-mod 1970 Chrysler New Yorker on Dekalb Avenue is one of many classic cars that enliven Bushwick’s streets. — Photos by Diego CupoloLike children playing with open fire hydrants, flooding the streets with loud screeches…
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Carlos Mencia is Half-German
August 24th, 2009
Notes from Bushwick
It’s hard to get a sense of whether one should like or dislike New York cops, assuming you have to make generalizations about them, which I do. On the one hand, they often act with incredible…
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Norwegian City Obsessed With Brooklyn Street Art
August 21st, 2009In September, Norway’s third largest city, Stavanger, with a whopping population of 121,325, is hosting a festival devoted specifically to street artists from Brooklyn…
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Bushwick Cooks:
Poached Salmon with Lemon-Mustard SauceAugust 21st, 2009
There comes a point every summer where I basically shut down my kitchen. It’s absolutely too hot to cook or bake and even the thought of getting out a cutting board and knife induces what seems like a mild…
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Bushwick House of the Week: 1190 Jefferson Av
August 20th, 2009Okay, this house is priced a little high for this market and the block it’s on — a perfectly fine block, as South Bushwick goes, tree-lined, some extant architectural details — but the house is in excellent shape inside, and the outside is wild.
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Bushwick Culture Weekend Picks 8/20/09
August 20th, 2009Hi there, Bushwick! I’m phoning it in from the Heartland this week where the nights are silent, the corn is perfect, and the butter statues are worth the lines…
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Council Candidate Darma Diaz Loses Court Battle
August 19th, 2009
A petition challenge for a Bushwick/East New York City Council race quietly played out in Brooklyn Supreme Court last week. — Photo by Aaron ShortWhile other highly competitive City Council campaigns in Bushwick/Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights,…
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Bushwick Playground Gets $2.4 Million Renovation
August 19th, 2009Bushwick Playground on Putnam and Knickerbocker is getting a big-bucks upgrade starting with a recent ground-breaking this weekend…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 8/19/09
August 19th, 2009This week I picked out apartments that have some kind of historic elements left in them — so often Bushwick tenements and homes have been eviscerated of any details of the period in which they were erected.
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