“What is Gentrification?” Anthropology Students Ask for Your Opinion
Anthropology students Sidsel Filipsen & Jonas Bruun Nielsen share some observations they’ve made studying gentrification in New York and Bushwick in particular. “I miss the old New York” at Pearl’s...
View Article2012: Looking Back and Giving Thanks
Bushwick skies (photo by the author) The end of the year is my favorite time because that’s when we get to take a step back and think about everything that we have done. I personally click on the...
View ArticleCloseted in Bushwick
Photo by Dani Duh Bones I love you, Bushwick, but I have some complaints. This neighborhood, so creative, friendly, so densely populated and diverse, desperately lacks a thriving queer scene. Take a...
View ArticleBushwick Restaurant Owner Reacts to Roberta’s Unpaid Farming Internships
Image found on Instagram by user @Hannah_Bear “Our favorite pizza joint made this just for us. Haha.Amazing @goodoldwar #fuckbushwick #robertaspizza #nyc #philly #foodporn” Roberta’s unpaid farming...
View ArticleEl Alma Hispana de Bushwick, Vista por Un Español
Todas las fotos: Agus Alonso Si esto fuera el perfil de un portal de citas online y tuviera que resumir en un párrafo quién soy, posiblemente diría que “un periodista que trabaja en Madrid para la web...
View ArticleBOS Festival Diary: “You have to go deep”
All photos by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily FRIDAY, May, 30 The weight of 200 No BS BOS guides in my backpack pulls my bicycle downwards. I’m rolling down St. Nicholas at full speed and realize...
View ArticleProblem: Kids Not Cool Enough for Bushwick?
She looks pretty cool to us! (photo by Essie Graham) Let’s be honest, parenting is neither easy nor for the birds. It takes work, energy, humor and, as the old adage states, “a village.” However, what...
View ArticleCelebration! We Have 3 New Editors at Bushwick Daily
Gif source: Photobucket Dear lovely wonderful readers, you know that you are my favorite creatures on Earth, right? You very likely also know that here at Bushwick Daily we love you and our...
View ArticlePosting Your Events in the Events Calendar! It’s Easy!
In the past weeks we have received about 8 billion emails from you, dear readers. You were concerned about the destiny of our Events Calendar. Well, let me tell you right from the start that the...
View ArticleBushwick Primer: Why Is The Rent So Damn High? And What Can You Do About It?
With studios going for $1775 a month, one-bedrooms that rent for $2240, and a median rental rate for 2-bedrooms that’s gone up 16% in the past year, you may have wondered at some point why rent in...
View ArticleBeyond Religion There Are Luxury Condos: A Story of Bushwick Churches
Photos by Andres Toro for Bushwick Daily The trend of converting churches into luxury housing has also hit Bushwick. It comes as no surprise when there are ravening hordes lusting after real estate...
View ArticleWTH Did Our Events Calendar Go
“Where the hell did the events calendar go?!” you may have been asking yourself for the past couple of days. Many of you have emailed me asking that very question. Our events calendar, where anyone in...
View ArticleFriday Editorial: Are We Already in a Post-Internet Age?
This week with Allison Galgiani, art editor of Bushwick Daily. Talk to her directly on Twitter @Grovesgal about this Friday Editorial. Not even a couple weeks ago, I began hearing a new term on the...
View ArticleCamera Shy: A Case for Consent
Jana et Js #newEdition at the Bushwick Collective (photo via The Bushwick Collective Facebook) Last September, California passed Bill 606 ruling it a punishable offense to photograph and publish the...
View ArticleSo What’s the Deal with “Jefftown” and Should You Hate It?
Recently, Gothamist‘s Rebecca Fishbein wrote a guide summing up the new and old food places in “Jefftown” using terms such as “barstaurantification” and “hip spillover from Williamsburg,” leading a...
View ArticleLoving and Leaving Bushwick (Or ‘We’ll Take Our Beers in a Six-Pack, Please’)
I first moved to the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy border in 2009 with two other ladies, recent college grads. One of my roommates was a freelancer, one was in grad school, and I had a temporary administrative...
View ArticleLiving BOS ’14: Bushwick, Will You Still be My Friend When You Change?
All photos by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily Throwing your persone in the vortex called Bushwick Open Studios frequently comes with a creeping yet steady anxiety of missing the best spectacle of...
View ArticleWhy the Beach is Especially Important to Bushwick This Summer
All photos by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily This past winter was especially forceful. The endless snow littered the city streets with ice, we all trudged through the elements to get to work, to...
View ArticlePool Tables I Have Known (Requiem for Wreck Room Bar)
Illustration by Emily Niland This year has been a bad year for pool tables I have known. Earlier in the spring, I got an alarming text message from my mother at 8:26am that read “The clubhouse burned...
View ArticleHow Is Life at Bushwick’s Most Controversial New Building, Colony 1209
At Colony 1209 (All photos by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily) When the invitation for a private tour landed in my inbox, I was swarmed by a well-mixed cocktail of contradictory emotion. Colony...
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