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Families Fight to Keep Subsidized Daycare Center
June 28th, 2010
Miguel Reynoso, whose son attends Grand Street Settlement Child and Family Center on Knickerbocker Avenue, speaks out during a rally to save the city-subsidized daycare last Friday. – Photo by Diego CupoloFriday’s graduating class at the Grand…
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‘Evil’ Rooftop Yoga Embraces the Noise
June 23rd, 2010The sun is setting, illuminating the surrounding buildings with a fiery glow, and Evil Yoga narrator Alaina Stamatis greets a small crowd bearing stretchy clothes and rubber mats on top of Market Hotel…
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Food Coop, Family Center in Farm-Fresh Team Up
June 21st, 2010
Beneath the red glow of a Linden Street Farmers Market stand, Bushwick Food Coop Coordinator Shira Shaham (center) leads her fellow members during a recent buying club pick-up event. — Photo by Diego CupoloSince its birth in…
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Tenant Destroys Nude Photos at ‘Art Haven’ Apts
June 15th, 2010
Only a few white scuffs remain on the wall that hosted photographer Rafael Fuchs’ nude photo collage. A resident tore the piece down because she believed it was inappropriate for her children to see. — Photo by Diego…
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In Photos: Bushwick’s Puerto Rican Day 2010
June 14th, 2010The PR Day Parade is held in Manhattan, but when the show is over, the festivities shift to Puerto Rican neighborhoods uptown, in the Bronx, and Brooklyn…
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Hit-and-Run Causes Bushwick Ave. Smash-Up
June 1st, 2010
This SUV rolled over after a hit-and-run; causing damage to other nearby cars. — Photo by Diego CupoloA careless driver fled the scene after sideswiping an SUV on Bushwick Avenue, sending the large vehicle rolling sideways into…
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Floating Open Mic Touches Down at New Café
May 19th, 2010For such a thriving arts community, Bushwick has certainly been lacking a few good, legitimate open mics. Or so it seemed…
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Woodhull Trades Health Care for Art
May 7th, 2010Being an artist has always helped you get laid, but now it can get you free health care, too. At least that’s true at Woodhull Medical Center, a city-run hospital at Broadway and Flushing…
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Tapes Reveal NYPD’s Ugly Underbelly
May 7th, 2010The Village Voice series, “The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy’s 81st Precinct” proved everything we’ve ever learned about cops is true, from quotas to crime-statistics manipulation…
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Nuke Survivors Share Stories with Local Students
May 5th, 2010
Toshiyuki Mimaki, who lived in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped, tells the story of his family and upbringing to 10th-grade students in the Academy of Urban Planning at the Bushwick Campus Tuesday afternoon. — Photo by…
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