Saturday’s fatal shooting on Berry Avenue was one of three shootings that occurred last week in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Paper] Yesterday morning, a 27-year-old female cyclist…
Dog Stolen at McCarren Park; Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Returns
Nearly half of the students enrolled at P.S. 188 on E. Houston Street are reportedly homeless. [NY Times] Yesterday in McCarren Park, Merlin—a dog in…
Food Fests That Don’t Bite: Taste of Bushwick and Grub Street Beats & Eats
Sure, Smorgasburg used to satiate your eccentric food cravings, but, like everything else in this city, popularity got the best of it and now it’s a crowded, sweaty…
Bushwick Arts Festival Didn’t Exactly Do Open Studios Like a BOS
For Luis Martin, the curator of a small gallery project inside East Williamsburg’s Brooklyn Brush Studios called Paranthesis Art Space, this last weekend was the culmination…
Weekend Murder in Williamsburg; Several Hurt in Bushwick Deck Collapse
Early yesterday morning in Williamsburg, police say a 25-year-old father was shot near the corner of S. 9th Street and Berry Street following an argument.…
Bushwick Artists, Get In on This Group Portrait of the ‘Very Magical’ Art Scene
A riddle: how do you get all the artists in Bushwick in the same place at the same time? Tell them that everyone is going to…
There’s a Democratic Socialist from Los Sures Running for State Senate
To meet with Debbie Medina, New York’s first Democratic Socialist candidate for State Senate, I was invited not to a campaign office, nor a public appearance, not…
Thousand Dollar Listing Guy Gets Hired By Million Dollar Listing Guy
Take Million Dollar Listing New York, add some Lonely Island-esque musical comedy, subtract a few zeros, and you’ve got Thousand Dollar Listing. Created by and starring 30-year-old struggling apartment…
Variance Joining the Bushwick Festival Fray this Summer
What’s being billed as a “16 hour fully immersive, internationally inspired” music and visual art event is coming to a yet-to-be disclosed location near the Jefferson…
Block Party in Bushwick; Kite Festival in Greenpoint
Yesterday morning, two young men were shot following a fight near the Cooper Park Houses in Williamsburg. Both are in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital.…