Archive for October, 2011

• Bushwick Community Board ‘Live’: Jan ’10

  January 21st, 2010
  
  Showing off RBSCC’s latest project, a subsidized luxury complex on Knickerbocker and Eldert. — Photo by Aaron Short

  It’s the third Wednesday of the month and while you may not have paid your electric bill yet, the mood…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 1/21/10

  January 21st, 2010

  Little things I am grateful for in January: gorgeous sunny mornings, leaving my office at 5pm in (sort of) day light, red eyes from the Wyckoff Starr, and art openings…

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 1/20/10

  January 20th, 2010

  Not much out there worth highlighting, kids, so without spending the whole day on this, here’s a couple things from our Classifieds and a cheap thing from elsewhere.

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• Bushwick Man Faces Deportation to Haiti

  January 19th, 2010

  While the world’s attention has turned to Haiti this past week, one Haitian immigrant would prefer to be back in his home in Bushwick where he has lived since 2000.

  Jean Montrevil is not in his devastated homeland, but in an immigration detention center in York, PA, and may eventually be deported back to Haiti.

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• STOREFRONT: Local Arts Org Goes Retail

  January 19th, 2010

  With a large blue awning sporting a “PM TAXES” blaze and a curiously narrow storefront, Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown’s new gallery promises more.

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• Obama Mural Defaced, but ‘It’s Not Political’

  January 15th, 2010
  
  A mural of President Barack Obama on Grattan Street by Juse One, gone over by Haeler. — Photo by Jeremy Sapienza

  A two-year-old mural of President Obama in Bushwick has been partly painted over, provoking a mixture…

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• At Tomo Japanese, Simple Is Best

  January 15th, 2010
  
  Sushi Chef Yoshi Wong at Tomo Japanese Fusion. — Photos by Scarlett Lindeman

  The sound most people make, after you tell them there is a new sushi restaurant in Bushwick, is a deflating “Eeeeeeeeeeeeh” akin to letting the…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 1/14/10

  January 14th, 2010

  We’re now well into the first month of the new year (once again, time: flying) and it seems that things are back up to speed after the holidays…

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 1/13/10

  January 13th, 2010

  Getting back into the groove here at BBK, here’s the first Apartment Roundup of 2010. As usual, we try to source from the Greater Bushwick Classifieds as much as possible…

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• Bright Bushwickers May Lose Free School Rides

  January 12th, 2010
  
  The subway might pass some Bushwick students by after planned MTA budget cuts. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

  Though a few years ago the MTA was in the black and giving out $100 million in cut-rate…

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