Archive for October, 2011
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Bushwick House of the Week: 643 Central
January 29th, 2010I’m not gonna lie, I think the place looks skeezy from the outside. But the neighborhood around this 6-unit building at 643 Central Avenue is full of well-built and still-attractive facades, most of which just need a good cleaning…
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Man Falls to Death from McKibbin Loft
January 28th, 2010Officers from the 90th Precinct responded at 6 AM this morning to a 911 call, closing off an alley at the rear of 248 McKibbin Street to investigate the death of a man who fell from the building’s roof.
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Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 1/28/10
January 28th, 2010Well, guys, it’s still winter. There’s no denying it today, so we’re going to have to throw on hats and go for it. A couple of personal recommendations to brighten the day a bit…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 1/28/10
January 28th, 2010I’ve struggled with a format for this feature over the years, and have decided that apartment hunters are best served by a highlighting and analysis of the absolute cheapest apartments available. And so this week I present all apartments under $1000.
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MTA Budget Cuts a Mixed Bag for Bushwick
January 27th, 2010It’s not just low-income students affected by the MTA’s budget shortfalls. Some riders will have their commutes lengthened no matter what they can afford… but the M train may be altogether deleted and replaced with an extended V train, providing uptown and Queens service without the need for even a single transfer.
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Poster Boy Arrested Again at Jefferson L
January 27th, 2010Anti-capitalist warrior Henry Matyjewicz, better known as Poster Boy and made locally famous by Gawker et al, has been arrested again while sticking it to the man in the Jefferson Street L station…
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Arts in Bushwick’s SITE Fest Seeks Performers
January 26th, 2010It’s time yet again for another Arts in Bushwick event — the local arts non-profit issues an open call for artists of all varieties to get involved in the third annual SITE Fest…
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Handmade Fashion Co-Op Comes to Flushing
January 25th, 2010There’s a lot of handmade fashion in Bushwick. Now, there’s a new co-op boutique to sell it.
“I just want to help out my friends,” said Karin Persan, owner of Better Than Jam Handmade Co-Op, opening at The Loom on February 1st. With 13 designers of clothing, t-shirts, jewelry, and hats, Karin is using her sunny storefront space as a way to promote her friends’ work as well as her own designs.
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A Method To End Their Madness
January 25th, 2010This is the second-to-last column I’ll be doing for BushwickBK, as I’m moving westward to Williamsburg soon and will thus no longer be a resident of this particular area. I will note that there was just now, at 3:40 A.M. on Monday, an exchange of gunfire somewhere in the vicinity of my apartment at Broadway and Park Street, but otherwise I have nothing to report in terms of our community and its cultural undertakings. Rather, I’d like to spend the remainder of my output here in an effort to make a certain case.
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Bushwick House of the Week: 377 Himrod
January 22nd, 2010I love this little house, mostly because I have a thing for tall, narrow buildings. I should rephrase — it’s not little at around 2600 square feet, but it’s visibly narrower than the multifamilies around it…
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