Bushwick Community Board ‘Live’: Oct ’11

6:30 PM: Twenty minutes before the start of the Community Board 4 meeting, BushwickBK founder Jeremy Sapeinza sent an email to contributors announcing he was discontinuing the website because it was not financially viable (was it ever?). 

So this…

Tough Summer for Wyckoff Heights Hospital

It has been a summer to forget for the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.

The Bushwick hospital and several other private hospitals are in the crosshairs of the Cuomo administration, as his Medicaid Redesign Team looks to cut rising Medicaid costs…

Bushwick Community Board ‘Live’: Sept ’11

They’re back.

After a long summer break, Community Board 4 is back in session at the Hope Gardens Multipurpose Center, ready to discuss the neighborhood’s happenings and quarrels. As always, this is a running diary.

6:30 PM: Unlike other…

Tangled Web: Players in 54th Assembly Dist. Election

What a short, strange trip.

This summer, the Bushwick assembly race — the special election is tomorrow — has gone from the seat that no one wanted to a trenchant three-way scramble that will likely be decided by a few…

Hospital Generators Still Smoking Out Neighbors

A Bushwick hospital’s foul generators and noisy chiller unit still have locals fuming even after neighborhood pressure saw the equipment moved off the street.

Neighbors are demanding Wyckoff Heights hospital remove heavily polluting generators, which have spewed noxious exhaust onto…

Q&A With Assembly Candidate Deidra Towns

The wild race is heating up to replace former Assemblyman Darryl Towns of the 54th Assembly District. Three candidates have declared to run so far, including Rafael Espinal, Councilman Erik Dilan’s chief of staff; Jesus Gonzalez, an organizer…

Q&A With Assembly Candidate Jesus Gonzalez

Another twenty-something is vying for the most coveted job in town: Bushwick’s vacant state assembly seat.

Former Assemblyman Darryl Towns resigned three months ago to take a commissioner’s position in the Cuomo administration, and last week Governor Cuomo called for the…

Bushwick Teens Lead a Handball Resurgence

Going to middle school in Brooklyn – anywhere really — can feel like you’re a ball being hit against a wall over and over again.

So it’s not surprising that handball is one of the most popular sports among Bushwick’s teen…

Q&A With Assembly Candidate Rafael Espinal

There’s a high-profile job open for Bushwick residents — but you have to knock on a lot of doors to get it.

Bushwick Assemblyman Darryl Towns resigned three months ago to take a commissioner’s position in the Cuomo administration, but Governor…

Bushwick Community Board ‘Live’: June ’11

Bushwick children were playing in the street after work, holding impromptu barbecues in their courtyards, and popping fire hydrants to stay cool Wednesday afternoon. 

But inside the Hope Gardens Senior Center, the neighborhood’s community leaders got down to business…