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This is the second-to-last column I’ll be doing for BushwickBK, as I’m moving westward to Williamsburg soon and will thus no longer be a resident of this particular area. I will note that there was just now, at 3:40 A.M. on Monday, an exchange of gunfire somewhere in the vicinity of my apartment at Broadway and Park Street, but otherwise I have nothing to report in terms of our community and its cultural undertakings. Rather, I’d like to spend the remainder of my output here in an effort to make a certain case.
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 Showing off RBSCC’s latest project, a subsidized luxury complex on Knickerbocker and Eldert. — Photo by Aaron Short It’s the third Wednesday of the month and while you may not have paid your electric bill yet, the mood inside the Hope Gardens Community Center is electric. That’s because it is time for another Community Board Four meeting, the first of the new year.
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Little things I am grateful for in January: gorgeous sunny mornings, leaving my office at 5pm in (sort of) day light, red eyes from the Wyckoff Starr, and art openings. There are plenty of them this week and this I’ve listed some Greater Bushwick luminaries who are taking it across the river.
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 A rally for immigration reform in honor of Bushwick resident Jean Montrevil, who may be deported to Haiti. — Photo by Aaron Short While the world’s attention has turned to Haiti this past week, one Haitian immigrant would prefer to be back in his home in Bushwick where he has lived since 2000.
Jean Montrevil is not in his devastated homeland, but in an immigration detention center in York, PA, and may eventually be deported back to Haiti.
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 Jason Andrew under the fluorescents in his new gallery, STOREFRONT. — Photos by Sarah Pappalardo 16 Wilson Avenue is not the first place you’d expect to see art. With a large blue awning sporting a “PM TAXES” blaze and a curiously narrow storefront, Jason Andrew’s new gallery is a unique addition to the neighborhood that he promises will be “more than just a gallery.”
“What you see is what you get,” Andrew says, from across the long, fluorescent-lit corridor. While the space is unquestionably small, this offshoot of the not-for-profit arts organization Norte Maar is proof that it’s not the size that counts. At least in art.
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 A mural of President Barack Obama on Grattan Street by Juse One, gone over by Haeler. — Photo by Jeremy Sapienza A two-year-old mural of President Obama in Bushwick has been partly painted over, provoking a mixture of reactions among local residents and graffiti writers. Frustratingly for many in the neighborhood, the "throwup" seems not to be politically motivated — it is likely just a product of ever-raging rivalries between graffiti crews. Disgruntled "teabaggers" with a penchant for spraypaint can be crossed off the suspect list.
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 Sushi Chef Yoshi Wong at Tomo Japanese Fusion. — Photos by Scarlett Lindeman The sound most people make, after you tell them there is a new sushi restaurant in Bushwick, is a deflating “Eeeeeeeeeeeeh” akin to letting the air out of a balloon. It’s not difficult to understand the apprehension to consume raw fish on the industrial truck route that is Flushing Avenue, especially when the storefront guides diners in with a non-ironic moving lighted arrow. Judging from a chattering dining room on a recent mid-week night, however, the “Japanese Fusion” of Tomo is inspiring many to take a chance.
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We’re now well into the first month of the new year (once again, time: flying) and it seems that things are back up to speed after the holidays. It’s a sunny, gorgeous day and there’s plenty to do all week long.
Tonight, ISCP hosts an opening reception for TERRA INFIRMA curated by Chiara Sartori.
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 The subway might pass some Bushwick students by after planned MTA budget cuts. — Photo by Diego Cupolo Though a few years ago the MTA was in the black and giving out $100 million in cut-rate rides, recent financial problems have forced the transit agency to raise rates and cut some service. The next item on the chopping block in the current MTA budget proposal: free and reduced-fare MetroCards that many middle- and low-income students in New York City depend on to get to school.
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 Musician Susan Hwang is… interesting. — Photo courtesy of the artist Seated among excessive waterfalls, unnecessary brick, and authentic fake plants, I had the pleasure of talking to Susan Hwang, a talented singer/songwriter whom you may find hosting or singing at Goodbye Blue Monday or Northeast Kingdom on many an evening. Susan is involved with a few collaborative projects, including the ever-quirky Debutante Hour and her own solo career. Last week, we chatted a bit about the recession; her accordion; her running series, the Bushwick Book Club, at GBM; and zombies. And then we got up and left.
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