(Photo: Scott Lynch)

Alt-Brooklynites from near and far got together this weekend at the Bushwick Block Party and, well… did all the things they normally do except packed tightly together and with more boas and double-dutch than normal. You can see photos such as the one above in Bedford + Bowery’s Flickr pool. Gothamist also has coverage.

Remember earlier this month when an East Village couple made the to pay $1 million for a rough-around-the-edges apartment in Bed-Stuy? Well, now the seven-figure-buyers club has spread to Bushwick – where a free-standing home was sold for over $1.2 million. The purchase on Bushwick Avenue is thought to be a new neighborhood record. [Brownstoner]

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(Photo: Anna Silman)

In a neighborhood where beloved institutions are shuttering daily and the entire borough threatens to become one big fro-yo emporium, Block Drug Stores is a rare outlier. One of the few independent drug stores still around, having served East Villagers since 1885, this old-timer is not just surviving — it’s expanding.
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(Photo: Anna Silman)

You can never have too much of a good thing, right? That seems to be the operating idea behind Twister frozen yogurt, a 16 Handles clone which recently unveiled its signage at Second Avenue near East 7th Street.
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