Archive for October, 2011

• Election: Quiet in Bushwick, Rowdy in Ridgewood

  November 1st, 2010
  
  Electronic scanners at the Board of Elections warehouse in Sunset Park wait to be dropped off at polling sites throughout the borough. Bushwick’s election day will be quiet, but Ridgewood has a real race tomorrow. — Photo by

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• Gospels: Haunting Your Dreams

  November 1st, 2010

  

  Gospels‘s “Fractured” drags its listeners into a foreboding sea of syrup, and pulls them into its deep purple depths; only allowing the occasional penetration of its surface. And yet it’s not suffocating, almost like a dream underwater where you…

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• Broadway’s ‘City Farm’ Thrives, Looks to Expand

  November 1st, 2010
  
  Founder Masha Radzinsky and Vincent Olsen in front of the chicken coop at Bushwick City Farm on Broadway. — Photo by Lucy Butcher

  The trend of community gardens, back yard farms and farmers’ markets in Bushwick continues to grow in popularity,…

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