Archive for October, 2011

• Photo of the Month 4/10: Murals and Trash

  March 31st, 2010

  

  All photographs for this monthly feature are chosen from the BushwickBK Photo Pool on Flickr. If you would like to contribute your pictures, simply share them here and you just might see your work on BushwickBK.com in the near future.

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• Ridgewood Woman Killed in Apartment

  March 31st, 2010

  A transgendered Ridgewood woman was found dead yesterday afternoon in her apartment at 69-30 62nd Street, near Fresh Pond and Myrtle. Her friends had been trying to contact her since Friday…

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• Boswyck Farms: And Now, Farming in a Loft

  March 30th, 2010
  
  Tomatoes grow in 5-gallon buckets at Boswyck Farms, a loft near the DeKalb L-train stop. — Photos by Aaron Short

  While most of Bushwick was digging itself out of two feet of snow this winter, loft-gardener Lee Mandell…

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• Bushwick Chic: Expat Precision

  March 30th, 2010

  Before Spring began it’s battering rainfall, I spotted these two transplants having a makeshift picnic down the street from their apartment in the McKibbin Lofts…

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• Bike Commuting Up Thanks to New Lanes

  March 26th, 2010
  
  The Ninth Avenue bike lane in Chelsea is separated from traffic. This treatment is reserved for high-speed corridors. — Photo by Seth Holladay for NYC Bike Maps

  While subway and bus commutes — at least…

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• Cassette on Scholes

  March 26th, 2010

  The late night crowd gathered outside 319 Scholes last Saturday amidst otherwise desolate streets was evidence that the space’s new inhabitants don’t work along the same schedule as the area’s more traditional manufacturing tenants…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 3/25/10

  March 25th, 2010

  It’s sunny again (at least for the morning and hopefully most of the weekend)! Yay! This week, ride a bike to Ridgewood to see some art, jam to some DIY bands at many of our fine local venues, and see top notch aerialists fly around…

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• Trees Not Trash Grows Up

  March 25th, 2010
  
  Trees Not Trash volunteer Cynthia Lovan plants a shrub in one of the group’s gardens on Bogart and McKibbin last Saturday. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

  Five years ago, Kate Gilliam moved to Bushwick and noticed something important…

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• Bushwick Apartment Roundup 3/24/10

  March 24th, 2010

  Pretty crappy week again, I just can’t imagine why landlords think these renovations are attractive or these layouts are useful. I focused on two-bedrooms this time, including railroads.

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• Accused Sucuzhañay Attackers Appear in Court

  March 23rd, 2010

  The two men accused of killing Ecuadoran immigrant, Jose Sucuzhañay, while shouting anti-Hispanic and anti-gay epithets appeared in Kings County Supreme Court Monday for a pretrial hearing. 

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