Archive for October, 2011

• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 9/16/09

  September 16th, 2009

  This week I chose apartments with four or more bedrooms, for those of you looking to share with a bunch of people.

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• 34th District Primary Election Live Updates

  September 15th, 2009

  

  With 97% reporting, BushwickBK is calling this race for DIANA REYNA, who won by 3% in a race involving barely 9,000 voters.

  The Esposito campaign probably served to siphon off the incumbent’s votes, but ultimately it wasn’t enough to…

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• If You Build it, They Will Come… to Bushwick

  September 15th, 2009

  Even people from the UES came to look at art — and apartments — in Bushwick this weekend at the Castle Braid on Troutman Street.

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• Churches Divided: Politics Splits N. Bklyn Catholics

  September 14th, 2009
  
  34th City Council District candidate Maritza Davila consults with Assemblyman Vito Lopez at services, left; 33rd District candidate Steve Levin shoots the evil eye, center; 34th District incumbent Diana Reyna preaches to her constituents. — Photos by Aaron

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• From One Life to Another

  September 14th, 2009
  
  Life Café founder and co-owner Kathy Kirkpatrick smiles at the helm of her second establishment, which opened 21 years after the original Life in the East Village.

  Before Life Café, Flushing Avenue wasn’t really on the map…

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• Bushwick Chic: Summer’s Swan Song

  September 14th, 2009

  

  Sunday felt like the death-rattle of summer, and these two Bushwick ladies, not yet required to cover up with thick coats, were out in their finest bright colors.

  Jennifer Catron, 25, Artist & Artist’s Assistant

  Ms. Catron was walking…

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• The Explosion That Rocked Bushwick Avenue

  September 11th, 2009

  Here’s a good throwback article from the Brooklyn Eagle about a factory explosion that killed one man on Bushwick Avenue. Originally published on July, 19 1866…

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• Sol de Quito, the Soul of Ecuador

  September 11th, 2009

  It is easy to confuse Sol de Quito, an Ecuadoran restaurant on Irving Avenue, with a nightclub. The windows are covered in maroon velvet obscuring the interior…

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• 34th District Candidate Profile: Maritza Davila

  September 10th, 2009
  
  Council candidate Maritza Davila. — Photo by Aaron Short

  To help you make the right decision in the upcoming Democratic primary — which is the de facto election in Brooklyn — BushwickBK will be running profiles on each…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 9/10/09

  September 10th, 2009

  Well team: it’s fall. Seems like people are turning over new leaves, putting their fall looks together and getting super busy planning stuff for all of us to go see!

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