Archive for October, 2011

• Yours Truly Boutique Brings Color to Broadway

  October 6th, 2009
  
  Jenny Musitano at Yours Truly on Broadway. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

  Outside of Williamsburg or Park Slope and the like, it is a rare occasion to come across local designer-owned boutiques — so the Yours Truly shop…

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• BETA Spaces Submission Deadline Extended

  October 5th, 2009

  Happening this November 8 for one day only, and constrained to the 15-block area bordered by Bushwick and Johnson Avenues and Starr Street — two blocks deeper into the neighborhood than last year’s — BETA Spaces is easier to handle than Bushwick Open Studios.

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• Shark Meat, B-Movies, and Justice

  October 5th, 2009

  

  Notes from Bushwick

  Last week, we proposed the creation of a small neighborhood association by which to provide legal assistance to those who have been illegally searched by police in Bushwick as well as…

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• Bushwick Chic: Slick and Simple

  October 5th, 2009
  Scot Bowman, bartender at Northeast Kingdom. — Photo by Molly Hamilton. Click to see full version.

  I’m still new to the neighborhood, apparently have been living under a rock, and had no idea that Northeast Kingdom was…

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• Lee’s Restaurant: Welcome to Enjoy!

  October 2nd, 2009
  
  Welcome to enjoy excellent cocktail at Lee’s Restaurant! — Photos by Scarlett Lindeman

  Lee’s Restaurant is nothing you haven’t seen before. With thirty years under its belt, Lee’s is a step up from take-out joints with a menu…

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• Former Illegal Loft Building Revived as Work Space

  October 2nd, 2009
  
  Artists work on a stop-motion animation in a work space at 1717 Troutman Street, an old manufacturing building that illegally housed about 220 people before getting shut down by city officials. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

  Most of…

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• Tina’s Employee Fired ‘for Being Sick’

  October 1st, 2009

  Former Tina’s Restaurant employee Guillermo Barrera claims he was fired because he had to go to the hospital. His former boss, Athina Skermo, says she had no idea he was going to the hospital and he just “left [her] flat.”…

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• Health Workers Anxious About Swine Flu Rule

  October 1st, 2009
  
  Wyckoff Heights Medical Center’s ER entrance on Stanhope Street. — Photo by Kevin Armento

  Roughly 200 people showed up at the state Capitol in Albany Tuesday to protest the recent state regulation mandating H1N1/Swine flu vaccinations for…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 10/1/09

  October 1st, 2009

  Brrr! Bundle up, hunker down and get ready for a fab fall weekend in our lovely neighborhood. I’m personally on my way to accepting the fact that it’s already October and cooling off…

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