Archive for October, 2011

• Quiet Hooves and Ava Luna Playing Silent Barn

  November 10th, 2010

  

  Athen’s Quiet Hooves is a pop collective that features up to 13 members. In addition to your standard guitar/bass/drums, factor in several keyboard players and a horn section. This spins what would be a simple song into something…

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• Hundreds More Trees for Bushwick Streets

  November 10th, 2010
  
  This street tree on Central Avenue at Troutman Street didn’t survive the dry summer. Dead trees will be replaced and new trees planted in Bushwick over the next several weeks.
  Photo by Jeremy Sapienza for BushwickBK

  Bushwick is…

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• War on… Loosies? Officials Slam Single Smokes

  November 9th, 2010
  NYC and local community board members want a crackdown on the sale of loose and tax-free cigarettes, on the grounds that the city loses revenue and “loosies” make it easier for minors to start smoking. — Photo by

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• Bushwick Chic: ‘These Are My Only Pants’

  November 9th, 2010
  Stephen wears his only pair of pants and one of his shirts at Starr and Wyckoff.
  Photos by Nicole Wasilewicz for BushwickBK. Click photo to see full outfit.

  Walking towards the tortilla factory to get my…

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• America’s First Superhero, at Rest in Ridgewood

  November 9th, 2010

  Machpelah Cemetery is one of the smallest by the BK-Queens border. The little Jewish cemetery has one claim to fame, however, in the person of Harry Houdini…

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• Twitter Graffiti on Broadway Junction

  November 8th, 2010
  
  The new decade’s version of “For a good time ,call blah blah blah”?

  The above photo was taken at Broadway Junction and posted on Attorney Street, a music and art blog. The blog is written by READ MORE »

• Live in Bushwick: Teletextile

  November 8th, 2010

  

  We like to support our DIY artists and spaces in Bushwick. There’s something very affirming about the “anyone can do it” ethos that has encouraged the local scene. So watching someone not only with talent but training in the…

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• Ali Coleman’s Deep Well of House

  November 5th, 2010

  

  There’s so many musicians and DJs in this city of 9 million people that you can spend days just wading through online wormholes digging them up. But so many of them come to Bushwick to perform that it makes…

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• Bushwick Music Review: Perfect Glass

  November 5th, 2010

  Each week we’ll highlight a different song by a Bushwick band or artist we like. If you would like to have your band’s song considered, you can submit an MP3 here.

  Recent Chicago transplant Randolph Riback a/k/a Perfect Glass…

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• MTA Service Advisories: Week of Nov 5

  November 5th, 2010

  L and M delays and interruptions, permanent B54 reroute.

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