Archive for October, 2011

• Bushwick Community Board ‘Live’: Nov 09

  November 20th, 2009
  
  845 Broadway, a proposed subsidized rental building applying for a residential variance from CB4. — Photo by Aaron Short

  The street corners on nearby Wilson Avenue are quiet, but inside the Hope Gardens Community Center is bustling and…

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• Yet Another Bushwick Portal to Puebla

  November 20th, 2009
  
  Taquería Los Portales’ hand-illustrated menus. — Photos by Scarlett Lindeman

  I know you’ve heard it before. Talk to even the most congenial Californian expat about New York’s Mexican food situation and you’ll get a great big "BUT" tacked…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 11/19/09

  November 19th, 2009

  This weekend is kind of nuts. There are plenty of opportunities to go totally crazy before you clear out or hunker down for Thanksgiving (which, HOW is it time for that already?!).

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• Project Aims to Relieve Bike Parking Congestion

  November 19th, 2009
  
  A daily hassle for locals, the parking congestion on Bogart Street is just one of the problem areas that could get more bike racks through the Fixcity.org pilot project. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

  When’s the last…

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 11/18/09

  November 18th, 2009

  I’m cheating this week, in a way, and only using apartments available in BushwickBK’s own Classifieds system.

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• Free Swap? Score!

  November 17th, 2009

  On the eve of Thanksgiving, that most American of holidays, the spirit of commune will find its way to 3rd Ward for a free-swap…

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• Let’s Just Colonize a Planet or Something

  November 17th, 2009

  

  Notes from Bushwick

  A certain Eric Nelson requests a little bit of your time and a bit of your self-indulgence, if you can spare either (I’m fresh out of the latter). The New Jersey-born writer is among the dying…

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• Bushwick Chic: It’s All About The Shoes

  November 16th, 2009
  Jenna Kohl in her five-inch heels on Starr Street. — Photo by Nicole Wasilewicz. Click to see full version.

  As if finding an apartment isn’t arduous enough, making your new digs feel like home is a similarly excruciating…

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• Bushwick’s Best Meatballs Are in Ridgewood

  November 13th, 2009
  
  The “retro” storefront of Two Guys on Myrtle Avenue in Ridgewood. — Photos by Scarlett Lindeman

  When it’s the kind of day when dusk shows up much too quickly, when the wind whips purposefully through the cracks in…

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• Greater Bushwick: Official Art Destination

  November 13th, 2009

   

  
  Wall relief/installation by Paul Baumann. — Photo by Deborah Hilert

  Last weekend’s BETA Spaces was so packed with art openings and events that it was almost impossible to see them all. Undaunted by the task at…

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