The Greenpoint Film Festival just passed, but there’s still more North BK festing to be had.
Fatal Shooting in Bushwick; Cheap Tats at Black Square
Police say a 22-year-old man was shot and killed in the stairwell of the Bushwick Houses project on Moore Street yesterday around 12:50 p.m. [NY…
Roberta’s Opens Takeout Annex; ‘Nightmare New York’ Haunted House
Two men robbed a third at gunpoint as the victim was sitting in his car at the corner of Jackson Street and Debevoise Avenue in…
Will ‘Missing BK’ Be the Bushwick Anthem That ‘Brooklyn Girls’ Wasn’t?
Today’s entry into the “Brooklyn anthem” category (in fact, it’s tagged that way on YouTube) comes from Farohawk, a Bushwick-based MC, producer and songwriter who,…
Big-Box Retailers Heart Williamsburg; Citi Bike Gets Audited
A Brooklyn investment firm with apartment-building ambitions purchased 510 Driggs Avenue for $35 million. [] In Bushwick, the Washington Irving Branch of the Brooklyn Public…
Rev. Billy Arrested; Amato Opera House Becoming Apartments
Corresponding with yesterday’s People’s Climate March, Reverend Billy was arrested in Tompkins Square Park for climbing onto a Parks Department truck in an attempt to…
Burglaries Up in Bushwick; Cotton-Candy Cone at Oddfellows
During the first eight months of 2014, there were 313 burglaries in Bushwick—up 39 percent from the same span a year ago—which police partly attribute…
Here’s How You Throw A ‘Badass and Forward-Thinking’ Party in the Woods
Aurora Halal (of Mutual Dreaming) and Zara Wladawsky took their underground parties upstate this past weekend as they launched the Sustain-Release electronic music festival. With over…
Greenpoint Film Festival; Meet the Creffle (Crepe + Waffle)
Police say this tattooed, 5-foot-7-inch guy used fire escapes to loot four Greenpoint apartments Monday afternoon. [Gothamist] New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation claims that…
Greenpoint Loses a Record Shop; Friends Cafe Pops Up Today
Greenpoint crime news: Police say a 29-year-old was assaulted and robbed by a group of assailants on September 8 at 2:30 a.m.; a robber who…