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Kimyon Huggins, a longtime community builder, DJ, and event producer who helped shape Bushwick’s creative scene for over two ...
Pellets of rat poison lie scattered among mulch and fallen leaves inside Maria Hernandez Park, just feet away from where children play daily. The poison, identified as BlueMax Meal Bait, was ...
Joseph Ficalora and crew at 10th annual bushwick collective block party. The event has historically attracted high-profile musical headliners. The 2023 block party featured Ice-T performing classic ...
Brooklyn Mirage, the outdoor portion of the sprawling Avant Gardner complex, will reopen May 1 with a dramatically reimagined design featuring opera-style balconies, expanded capacity, and enhanced ...
Ian Ford, a 52-year-old DJ and small business owner, embodies the highs and lows of New York City. His ties to the underground queer music scene in New York led him to create Caffeine Underground, a ...
Our Wicked Lady (OWL), a cornerstone of Bushwick’s independent music scene, is facing imminent closure. The bar and venue, which opened in July 2015, has become a cultural institution, known for its ...
There are 206 bones in the human body and for the entirety of his adult life, Jon Pichaya Ferry has been busy collecting them. The way he likes to tell it, his father — a manager at a Sanmina chip ...
On a fateful day in the frigid cold of a recent December, Miles Kirsch decided to start pouring out cups of tea — oolong, green and herbal chrysanthemum — in Maria Hernandez Park. “It was one of the ...
“It was my birthday party,” said Willa, last name redacted, host of last weekend’s now- infamous “Bushwick lesbian rooftop party.” And to clarify, no the party wasn’t in Bushwick, it was technically ...
The shelter has also been a magnet for various critical news reports. A news package a year ago from Fox 5 was headlined: ‘It’s prison’: Hundreds in Bushwick shelter go weeks without showers.Acosta ...
“It’s changed so much,” says Jude Tallichet, a sculptor of modest renown who moved to Ridgewood some twenty-five years ago.Tallichet had been among the first wave of artists to find themselves ...
This Saturday, Bushwick Ayuda Mutua is calling all those who love to laugh. The mutual aid group will be hosting a comedy show at Knickerbocker Underground, which calls itself the neighborhood’s ...