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Secret Project Robot Moving to Melrose
Yeah Yeah Yeahs 10th anniversary party at Secret Project Robot.
Williamsburg's loss is Bushwick's gain. Following the end of their lease, Secret Project Robot will be moving to 389 Melrose Street. The art gallery and peformance space's new home will be smaller than its current location, but is adjacent to a 4,000-square-foot lot, which will probably be quite nice come next summer. Moving with them are experimental art rock band Oneida and the Live With Animals gallery. ...
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'I Don't Know if This is Fun'
“I don’t know if this is fun.” This came as a mumble from one of the stand-up comics performing to a tough crowd on the opening night of the latest exhibition at NURTUREart. -
Huggabroomstock Returns to Bushwick
The fifth annual Huggabroomstock is this Saturday at Goodbye Blue Monday. The festival, launched by anti-folk band Huggabroomstik in 2007, features 23 bands between ... -
Hart Street 'Bomberos' Could Get Budget Ax
Residents soon find out if FDNY Engine Company 218 -- home of the "Bushwick Bomberos" -- will officially shut its doors for good. Firefighters say the mayor is gambling with lives. -
Music Videos from Old Monk and Jangula
The idea of music videos on television may be well and truly dead, but thank you, inexpensive techonology, for making it possible for bands to ...
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A Tiny Bushwick 'Chinatown' Comes Together
Sea Town joins a nearby vivero to offer the freshest meats and fish for Bushwickers, for whom it's a bit harder to get to Chinatown with the new M-train service. -- Photos by Scarlett Lindeman Under dozens of international flags snapping in the wind, Sea Town Fish and Meat Market bustles with new business. A new addition to Bushwick's many supermarkets, ... -
Baltrop's Sincerity: Love Shots of a Scarier NYC
The work of Alvin Baltrop, a photographer whose career spanned four decades, is a relentless documentation of the underbelly of New York City. -
Tornado Repair Could Take Months, Cost Millions
Maria Hernandez Park administrator Elvis Valdez has a lot of work ahead of him to get the park open after Thursday's tornado decimated its trees and damaged walkways and park equipment. Click to view more photos>> A tornado blew through the streets of Bushwick Thursday evening for fewer than 20 minutes -- but it could take months of restoration and millions ... -
Lopez Trounces Duran for District Leader
Assemblyman Vito Lopez easily won his race against Esteban Duran for District Leader. -- Photo by Aaron Short Democratic Party chairman Vito Lopez won his State Committee race handily over challenger Esteban Duran, by a nearly 3 to 1 margin, in the district he has represented since 1984. As of Wednesday morning, Lopez recorded about 4,300 votes, approximately 74 percent of the ... -
Hope Gardens Center Manager Arrested for Theft
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L, M Train Interruptions Aug 21-26
Weekend and weekday interruptions for two Bushwick-area trains. -
Central Ave's Century-Old Sewers to Be Replaced
The city's water and sewer authority is replacing 500 feet of sewer underneath two blocks of Central Avenue. Above, one block has a trench inside which workers are placing the new cement pipes. -- Photo by Jeremy Sapienza The century-old drainage pipes underneath a section of Central Avenue have partially collapsed, according to the city's Dept. of Environmental Protection, and the ... -
Burned Factory Sold 'Thrown Out' Mattresses
Neighbor Izell Brock surveys the scene on Melrose Street, the day after a fire destroyed a mattress factory. Neighbors say the factory, operated in shipping containers, never threw its trash out. -- Photo by Jonathan Mena A fire destroyed a mattress factory on Melrose Street near Evergreen Avenue on Saturday afternoon, spewing toxic clouds into the air and forcing the evacuation ... -
Northside Begins Today
The local music festival season continues on with the higher profile Northside Festival, which kicks off today. The festival is on until Sunday across Williamsburg and Greenpoint. But somehow Shea Stadium sneaked its way into the schedule, so score one for Bushwick. Band range from locals we love like Fluffy Lumbers and Ava Luna to big name ... -
Food Coop, Family Center in Farm-Fresh Team Up
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 Cupolo Since its birth in March 2009, The Bushwick Food Cooperative has been working to make farm fresh, organic food more accessible in a neighborhood better known for greasy fried ... -
