“Intact” houses, Troutman between Central and Evergreen, from the BushwickBK flickr pool

ohai i can has car?: One brave glutton from NY Mag’s Grub Street tried out SMSCab, a car company you can text instead of call. Yes, from Bushwick.

Ridgewood Drift?: Somebody on subchat seems to think the improvement happening in Bushwick is somehow spreading from Ridgewood. pff. Queens people.

Bushwick Drift: Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY mentions in his book about New York: “…Ridgewood, [which] real-estate flacks hype… as the next stop on the M train for Williamsburg and Bushwick refugees who’ve been priced out of Brooklyn.” Actually, Ridgewood is hardly cheaper than Bushwick right now, and if you’d rather have a nicer apartment… and block and neighbors and air, you brave the sucky M ride and get the marginally cheaper place across the Queens border.

From Slick to Sick: A Bushwick native reminisces about the amazing Batterman’s Department Store which stood where, if I remember correctly, that shitty Duane Reade is now at Flushing and Broadway.