Archive for October, 2011
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Bushwick Photo of the Month 9/09: Cold Industry
September 30th, 2009Today, we begin a new series of posts that will highlight the best local photography on the last day of each month. All photos will be chosen from…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 9/30/09
September 30th, 2009This week, we’re just listing whatever looks good, all around the neighborhood.
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Capturing the Last Days of a Forgotten Rail Line
September 30th, 2009
A BMT train map from 1925 shows the Myrtle Avenue El running from Metropolitan Avenue to the Brooklyn Bridge.Before the G train, buses and frustrating loops through Manhattan, Bushwick residents got to downtown Brooklyn in rickety wooden…
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Primary Runoff Turnout a Trickle
September 29th, 2009The Times says primary runoff turnout is negligible, a fact confirmed by a visit to the IS 111 polling location on Starr Street and Central Avenue…
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Cyclist Breaks Bus Window With Bottle
September 29th, 2009Armando Cruz, 20, was having a bad day. Cops had just asked him to pull over for “unsafe” bike riding on Flushing Avenue, but he sped away…
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Secret Boat Party on Fetid Canal… Not So Secret
September 29th, 2009It began among deserted warehouses, an area which during the day bustles with industry, but at night gives birth to a new life of escape…
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Smoke ‘Em if You’ve Caught ‘Em
September 28th, 2009
Notes from Bushwick
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Strolling through the Frick Collection a few weeks ago, I got to thinking about Alexander Berkman, the anarchist revolutionary who is most commonly remembered for his failed bid to kill Henry Clay Frick in… -
Town in the Woods #1
September 28th, 2009Bushwick illustrator Thomas Marquet begins today his comic strip series, “Town in the Woods,” a sort of spin-off of characters from his “The White Cube” strip. The characters are, yes, artists, and many of their travails are about that…
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Bushwick Chic: ‘I Like Free Clothes’
September 28th, 2009
Paul Dally on his Starr Street stoop. — Photo by Molly Hamilton. Click to see full version.Paul Dally, 21, Artist
I found Mr. Dally smoking a cigarette on the stoop of an apartment near mine, on the…
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Paving Truck Falls Through Wyckoff Sidewalk
September 28th, 2009It’s unclear why the truck, full of asphalt, was on the sidewalk, but apparently nobody told the driver there’s a subway under there and the sidewalk is hollow…
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