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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This is from George Street in Bushwick. Because of the way the sign is pointing and the Cathedral of Joy Church of God sort of juxtaposed like that Miss Heather has titled this baby “Highway to Hell.”

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[Photo courtesy of mikime/GL Flickr Pool] We have no idea what this is except that it was placed in our GL Flickr Pool by mikime and was found in Bushwick on a walk home from Third Ward. There is a set of photos of the beasts, as there are apparently two of them.

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“The authorities are investigating the beating of a 31-year-old man in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on early Sunday morning as a hate crime, saying the man’s assailant shouted anti-gay and anti-Latino epithets before the attack, officials said. The 31-year old man, who the police did not identify, was in ‘very critical’ condition on Monday at Elmhurst Hospital […]

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Per the make of the vid: “‘Fixed,’” a short film, shot on location in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Watch a bicyclist ride through the neighborhood.”

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Want to roll around in someone else’s “Love Stain?” Well, for the unbelievers or the… (no, we’re not going to judge) head on over to Brooklyn’s Red Carpet Inn at 980 Wyckoff Ave, slap down $116 for the night (sorry, we too can’t confirm the hourly rate), and get grubby! One brave visitor found out […]

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Rudy Giuliani may have cleaned the subway cars of the monumental graffiti years ago, but he sure didn’t put a stop to the international street art wave that grew from it. The Train Car Project is presently showing at Papa B Studios in Bushwick (or are we now calling it East Williamsburg these days?) until […]

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There’s a cool show called Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance opening tonight at the English Kills Gallery in Bushwick. It runs through September 17. The opening reception is from 5PM-9PM.. Here’s a bit from the gallery: English Kills Art Gallery is pleased to present Maximum Perception : Contemporary Brooklyn Performance, the first exhibition to cover […]

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If this is not the most bizarre real estate marketing video we’ve ever seen, we don’t know what is. It’s so weird and bad that it’s wet yourself funny. Seriously, if you didn’t catch it on the Curbed post yesterday we heartily recommend that you watch it now. This is some of the writing that […]

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[Photo courtesy of Incandenza/flickr] This is a rail line running through Bushwick, photographed at Morgan Avenue. There’s a shot of the same spot in winter here.

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The food and diet issues that predominate in Williamsburg and Bushwick, of course, are not hipster ones. “Kids growing up in Williamsburg and neighboring Bushwick have the highest chance in the city that one of their parents is obese. About 30% of adults are unhealthily overweight, according to data released yesterday by the Citizens’ Committee […]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run: Saturday, May 17, 1-3 pm – with Adam Schwartz Rust and Remembrance: Bushwick’s Southern End Bushwick is a bustling neighborhood with a sleepier southern side. The historic houses lining these leafy streets date from a late 19th […]

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Meet Kennedy Rivera, who knows the many details of tenant harassment as Bushwick gentrifies. “His work is to ensure that he and other tenants on modest incomes can stay living in the neighborhood. He is a housing specialist with Bushwick Housing Independence, a nonprofit group that by its own account takes on 30 clients a […]

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This seating comes from Eldert Street in Bushwick and even has seat belts. It comes via the roving camera of Miss Heather.

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Saturday night’s show at Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway in Bushwick) was definitely the loudest and the most rocking one I have seen at that venue. Usually the small coffee shop/thrift store/venue features more experimental, ambient or folky music, but their sound held up with the change of gears, and the ambience went well with […]

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The exemplary specimen of Feddertecture on Jefferson Street in Bushwick is not only complete, it is now tagged up. “I wonder if the developer hired someone to do this so these luxury town homes would have that built-in ‘urban’ feel?”–New York Shitty

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They’re not street couches per se in the sense of being discarded or put out on the sidewalk to sit on, but they’re definitely the Street Couches of 2015 through 2050, depending. Miss Heather captured this glimpse of the Street Couches of the future on McKibben Street in Bushwick.

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Well, this is probably more “street seating” than a street couch and it’s in much better shape than some of the sofas we’ve featured. In any case, it’s from Sudyam Street in Bushwick and comes from our traveling correspondent, Miss Heather.

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These Bushwick sofas were are outside, but not quite on the street, come from Jefferson Street. They are from our Roving Correspondent, Miss Heather.

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This once comfy armchair got some snow on Friday and has since gotten some trashed tossed on top. It comes from Eldert Street in Bushwick and is, of course, from the roaming camera of Miss Heather.

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This battered bit of signage come from Dodworth and Broadway in Bushwick via the roving camera of Miss Heather. We’re not sure what we like more–the sign or the street lamp around which it is wrapped.

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So, here’s an interesting sounding weekend “to do”: Pop Subversion: Food as Art? Ad Hoc Art Gallery and Wheeler’s Frozen Desserts are hosting an interactive food gala in Brooklyn on Sunday, February 24th at 1:30PM. The menu will include Platinum Patron margarita, Moet-Rose champagne, and Mojito sorbets as well as 5 other surprise flavors of […]

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This messed up signage comes from Dodworth and Broadway in Bushwick, where there are many battered signs. It comes via our Greenpoint Correspondent, aka Miss Heather.

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Our Greenpoint Correspondent calls this image “Algonquin Rountable Meets Fred T. Sanford.” It come from Bushwick.

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