A Phantom Ride on the Evergreen Branch

On the fabric of every southwest-northeast street of the Bushwick grid, a subtle disjoint somewhere between Irving and Wyckoff Avenues marks the scar of a 19th-century railroad that once cut through the entire length of the neighborhood. This forgotten line…

Fallow Fields? Get Some Free Food

Get a taste of the locavore future at the Bushwick Farmer’s Market this Saturday with newcomers Nextdoorganics, an urban/suburban farming company who are working towards “a distributed food network where backyards, school plots, and brownfields are used to support…

Bushwick Supermarket Sweep 2011

It’s been almost two years since our last Supermarket Sweep, and a volatile two years at that. This time we brought Ridgewood fully into the mix, pushing the total number of stores up to 33. This revealed that food prices,…

Bushwick Avenue Preservation Has a Plan

It was only last fall that historian Adam Schwartz took us on a tour of Bushwick Avenue, sharing the efforts of his students at the Academy of Urban Planning to draw attention to the treasures of the neighborhood’s most historically important…

Grocery Chains Cash in on ‘Food Deserts’

Tri-State grocery chain Bogopa has been awarded $450,000 in sales tax exemptions under a city initiative to increase fresh food availability in the city’s "food deserts," but most of the incentives will go to renovations and fractional expansions at five existing supermarkets.…

Pages From the First Inkjet Printer

Tucked in behind Little Skips on a stub of a street called Charles Place, Microscope Gallery will have been open nine months as of this weekend, but by all appearances the wildly multimedia little artist-run space is just warming up its act.…

Savoring Graham Avenue One Block at a Time

Want to have more than a taste of the Avenue of Puerto Rico? Starting this Saturday, the tour company Urban Oyster are following their twin loves (food and history) to Graham Avenue for an in-depth Immigrant Foodways tour.  

After delving into…

The Bank Bushwick Built

While some Bushwick residents have been thanking our lucky stars that we finally have Bank of America on Knickerbocker, others have been managing just fine in our branch-forsaken neighborhood. Bushwick may be short on financial services but we’re long on community…

The Bushwick Review: A Potluck in Grayscale

Is Bushwick ready to join the rarefied circle of literary and artistic capitals guiding the development of Western culture with a namesake Review? Are we prepared to launch as the new Chattahoochee? No, but we can poke holes in…

In Ridgewood, the Pork Store Lives On

Last century’s Ridgewood, a burgeoning German neighborhood, provided an insatiable market for corner butchers and sausage-makers. Demographics may have shifted, but a love of pork has been a constant, and a handful of the old guard survive. We sampled our…