Archive for October, 2011
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 2/18/10
February 18th, 2010Another week, another bunch of sub-$1100 apartments. The order was hard to decide — the last one is an amazing deal no matter where it is — but since the last two gave no specific location, I put them at the end.
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Manhole Explosion Injures ConEd Worker
February 17th, 2010Around 3am a manhole cover exploded at Broadway and Hart as ConEd employees worked on a nearby service box…
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These Are Powers: Post-Punk Ghetto Dance
February 17th, 2010These Are Powers’ new cover features an unidentifiable soul covered in a splatter of minty green sludge, lumpy mauve slime, and a slippery vermilion sauce….
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Greenpoint ‘Plume’ Spreading Toward Bushwick?
February 16th, 2010Greater Bushwick’s biggest spills and contaminated sites are already well-known, but it seems only time — and state testing — will tell the extent of North Brooklyn’s toxic underground stew…
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On Bogart, Street Art Gives Way to DJ Supplies
February 16th, 2010On February 1st, Pro Audio Star packed its music equipment and moved from 304 Boerum Street into 49 Bogart Street, the former home of Ad Hoc Art gallery, which has since partnered with next-door gallery Eastern District. The art world has given way to the music retail business, a lucrative and growing industry.
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Present, Future Developments on BushwickBK
February 15th, 2010We thought we’d take this “holiday” break to just inform BushwickBK’s users of some things that exist that you might not know about and developments to come.
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Taquería Cocoyoc Got Your Goat
February 12th, 2010If you have never had the pleasure of eating goat, Taquería Cocoyoc is a good place to begin. Goat meat is dark and sinewy, falling somewhere between the flavor of lamb and beef but with more finicky bones. When treated right, the meat turns into unadulterated carnivorous luxury. At Taquería Cocoyoc, a four-year old Poblano taquería on Wyckoff Avenue, barbacoa enchilada is goat gold.
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Bushwick House of the Week: 221 Cornelia
February 12th, 2010The block that hosts 221 Cornelia Street is average, as wood-frame Bushwick blocks go: drab but clean vinyl-sided homes with a few remaining details like cornices and ironwork, some trees, and relatively well-maintained.
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Fleeing Corporate Kontrol in New Hope City
February 12th, 2010NYC was transformed into New Hope City, a post-apocalyptic, corporate-owned pseudo-Utopia bordered by shanty towns inhabited by artists and musicians.
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Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 2/11/10
February 11th, 2010Between this awful/ ridiculous/ insane snowstorm and the weirdness of Google Buzz, I don’t know what to do with myself this week. The world has gone insane. I do, however know where I’ll be this weekend (and next, and the following) …
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