It comes from Starr Street in Bushwick and this One Way sign has got some serious curves. It comes to us courtesy of our Greenpoint Correspondent, who knows a good sign when she sees one and who spots them everywhere.

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This street sofa is from Troutman Street in Bushwick and it comes via the busy camera of our Greenpoint Correspondent, who titled it a “Fubar Couch.” Indeed, it is monstrously fucked up beyond all hope. Miss Heather, who has photographed many street couches, offers a bit of analysis as well: Each neighborhood I visit has […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mangy_Cur/flickr] Ah, bed bugs. This is the first photo we’ve ever seen of a street sofa wrapped up like this, trying to keep people away. It comes from the streets of East Williamsburg and there’s actually a full photoset that functions as a kind of short chronicle of bedbug infestation. Regarding a […]

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This amusing example of a one way sign gone bad–or, at least, pointing in a direction which it was not intended to point–comes from Fayette Street and Broadway on the edge of Bushwick or of Bed-Stuy, depending. It is courtesy of our Greenpoint Correspondent.

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Our Greenpoint Correspondent, who always ranges fare and wide, called this photo “Mixed signals at Troutman and Central Avenue.” We say, definitely look both ways.

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We’ve featured many photos of compromised street signs since we started our “Say What” series last year, but never have we had such a patriotic specimen as this. Stan + Stars and Stripes Street is actually Stanwix Street and Bushwick Avenue. It comes courtesy of our Greenpoint Correspondent, who always ranges far and wide.

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There is a pillow fight club in Bushwick. “Mattresses make the ring, an announcer gets the crowds attention — mic in hand, and the regulation size pillows are held firmly in the contender’s hands. There are 16 guys and girls in all, fighting one-on-one until an elimination is made and one moves to the next […]

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Bushwick, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of fawpah/flickr]

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This is an old Santa we found in a parking lot in Bushwick a few weeks ago. We don’t know if he had a final Christmas-related destination or if the lot is his permanent resting place. We do know that he could stand some fresher, brighter paint.

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Our Greenpoint correspondent sent us this photo, which was the result of some meanderings around East Williamsburg and Bushwick. She didn’t get the exact address, but if you look at the photo you can understand anyone’s reluctance to approach the building permit on the construction fence. She writes: Look at the angle of that “chute” […]

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It’s relatively new to YouTube and very heavy on the irony, most of which is intended.

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This week’s Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection comes to us from Bushwick. It’s got a certain something: mckibbin lofts roof party the cops broke up – w4m – 22 NYU Philosophy student! I was talking to you on the upper roof deck Friday night. I threw a beer can before climbing down. I’m a girl (duh), […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent, whose reports and contributions always life our spirits, filed this photo of the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Morgan in Bushwick, where the signals were sending some, uh, mixed signals. Which is fitting in its own way.

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These photos of battered signage in Bushwick/East Williamsburg come from our Greenpoint correspondent, who notes that “It would appear that someone has a ‘thing’ for Bogart Street.” Given the way these signs are bent (especially the one in the top pic), it looks like a deliberate act of Sign Abuse rather than an accident via […]

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Not all the changes made in Albany by the special interests and others that attacked the 421-a developer tax break legislation are bad ones. We have always believed that the huge tax abatements that developers receive are a holdover from a 1970s/80s mentality of desperation that fail to reflect in any way, shape or form […]

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We missed a solid piece in the Village Voice earlier this week called The Second Battle of Bushwick, as a reader pointed out to us. It is long, detailed and chronicles the way Bushwick is changing and who is paying the price. The article–which runs five full screens if you read it online–bears Tom Robbins […]

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What you’re looking at is a small piece of Bushwick. The maroon colored squares are buildings with 27 or more uncorrected housing code violations and more than five violations per unite. The pink ones have between 3.5 and 5 violations per unit. You can now see this kind of thing thanks to a housing code […]

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Montrose Avenue, Bushwick

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