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      The first one was fun, why not do it again? A lot of new readers now. Post your own below! The "Ass" sells tofu? Organic milk in dairy! Kiss ...

    • Bushwick: Bedbug Central?

      by shaftbean, from the BushwickBK.com flickr pool Can't we catch a break? Once again, Bushwick takes a number one on the shit list, this time for ...

    • We're #1! Bushwick Beats the Bronx

      I'm used to living in a city that's #1 in a lot of stuff: my hometown of Miami was simultaneously the poorest city in the ...

    • ¡Cocinando! in Bushwick: Maduros

      Since I love cooking and am familiar with most of the Spanish Caribbean's cuisine, particularly Cuba, I figured I'd start a "segment" about cooking with ...
    • Cruising for Sex in Bushwick: Bad Idea
      One for the homos: I know those Puerto Rican boys can be painfully hot, but they will cut you if you're not careful. One of our 40-year-old, probably somewhat trollish denizens "struck up a conversation" with undoubtedly sexy 25-year-old Jesús Almestica at Stanhope and Myrtle one night last week at 12:15am. They went back to the troll's apartment where Jesús, ...
    • Italians in Bushwick Still Making Headlines
      photo by jenblossom from the BushwickBK flickr pool Every Bushwicker knows that before the 80s, this place was full of Italians, plenty of whom stuck around long after the Germans packed up and fled to Long Island. The faded signs peeking out behind yellow plastic Ecuadorian restaurant awnings and even the extant Italian-owned businesses around the hood remind us that neighborhoods ...
    • Things to Do, People to See
      photo by eppleart from the BushwickBK flickr pool For the first time in a long time, I spent Saturday night in Bushwick. And I don't mean making dinner and watching foreign films until 2am. After we finished painting the hallway in the house, we got changed and went to the home of fellow BBKers Jen and Mike up on Broadway and ...
    • Bushwick Haiku
      Oh, the bodega. So many on each corner, Like ghetto Starbucks. Gushing and flowing, Relief from summer's torture. The hydrant bursts forth. The fight rages on. Renovation the weapon, Hipsters the army. Shouting and yelling At empty windows and doors. Why not a cell phone? Friends from the island, Wary of walking alone, Jealous of my rent. (Leave your Bushwick haiku in the comments!)
    • Right-Wing, Apathetic What?
      Know what I'm sick of lately? Activist types showing up here, getting all up in our faces about our part in advancing gentrification -- or at least that we don't weep enough about gentrification. The worst part is that for all their many hundreds of words on the subject, they can never seem to get any real ideas across. They're ...
    • Back on a Bushwick High
      My feelings for or against Bushwick fluctuate every few days, it seems. On days we go to Northeast Kingdom, we have to walk what I call the Ghetto Gauntlet: up Troutman from Central, past gushing fire hydrants that soak my chanks, families using the entire sidewalk as their front yard, rotten trash overflowing in front of filthy buildings with rats ...
    • You Just Moved to Da Neighborhood!
      I'm standing outside against my stoop railing, talking to a friend, when a guy zips by on a bike, dumping a restaurant napkin full of trash in my tree pit. I yelled "hey, come on!" The guy yells back "you just moved to da neighborhood!" I yelled back at him in my biggest Bronx accent "Fooooock you!" The neighbors stared ...
    • Only in Bushwick Moment #3
      Soon to invade a garden near me. I need thyme for the cracks in my now-finished backyard patio, and since S & S Farm Market on Knickerbocker is a hell of a lot closer than Home Depot, I figured I'd give them a try. They did have plenty of nice plants, but I didn't see any thyme. Since I needed mint, ...
    • Doorbells and Cellphones: Illegal in Bushwick?
      MaaariSOL. *5 seconds* MaaariSOL. *5 seconds* MaaariSOL. *5 seconds* MaaariSOL. *15 seconds* MaaariSOL... And repeat for 15 minutes. You've heard it. It's the sound of people without cellphones visiting other people in buildings without doorbells. And it can be heard at nearly every building in Bushwick. One time I stuck my head out the window after about 10 minutes of "MaaariSOL" and said "Hey! I think she might not ...
    • Only in Bushwick Moment #1
      I'm looking out my window just as a huge black guy turns the corner. He's swaggering slowly down the sidewalk, swaddled in his thick navy blue hooded jacket...and he'd look particularly menacing if he weren't walking a tiny blonde chihuahua wearing a pink sweater.