Can you believe it’s still snowing? Now it’s getting silly. Cops in Bushwick had to block off Sumner Place earlier after a nice-sized chunk of street collapsed. The DOT responded a couple of hours later and patched it up with a metal plate and some cones so all is relatively safe…for now. Send us your damage reports!
Photos: ANIMALNewYork
The voice-over for this vintage NBC news report from 1976 warns: “This is a part of Brooklyn that few people see anymore. It is the 83rd precinct, a battleground for the police and young street criminals.” Ha. That would place it smack dab in the middle of Bushwick. Watch this rare footage about the legendary hell-raising ‘Devils Rebels‘ as they battle an equally grimy gang: the NYPD.
The man came down hard on Bushwick’s ironic trailer park today and the FDNY has ordered anyone with a dirty t-shirt, tattoo, or studded belt—basically everybody—to vacate the premises immediately.
Gerhardt Fuchs, a 34 year-old drummer from Georgia known as “Jerry” to friends who recently played on Letterman with the band MSTRKRFT and toured with Vineland, The Juan MacLean, Turing Machine, Holy Ghost! and Maserati, fell to his death over the weekend after the hood of his sweatshirt got caught on a piece of a stalled freight elevator he attempted to jump out of, causing him to fall to his death five stories to the bottom of the elevator’s shaft in the building he was attending a party at on Berry Street in Williamsburg. Read more »
Puzzling public service poster placed in Bushwick, one of the poorer NYC neighborhoods. I didn’t text the number, but this is apparently an ad—paid for in-part I guess by Kaplan—for the non-profit pre-school literacy organization Jumpstart. I guess they’re looking for volunteers and donations, in which case, this is far from the ideal location (Upper West Side?) for this jumblegram advert. At the Jumpstart website, you’re met with a corresponding banner ad—I (heart) RAEDNIG—which invites you to take a short quiz on your knowledge of illiteracy. My knowledge is limited, but I think placing an ad that kinda mocks illiterates in a NYC neighborhood with a higher percentage of illiterate people isn’t the smartest move.
This past weekend, someone fired off a few shots underneath the Flushing Avenue J/M station. As this surveillance tape shows, about 20 people ran into the corner deli for cover. Thankfully, no one was shot, but is there some innate self-preservation that inhabits all Bushwick residents to run to the nearest bodega when shots are fired? I guss it is similar to when white suburban kids are told by their parents to go to the large open area in the mall if they get separated. Kind of. Read more »
This Friday, Ad Hoc Art opens “I Know There is Love,” the final exhibition in their Bogart Street gallery. Working on a collaborative installation, artists Armsrock and Chris Stain bring their images of working-class peoples and human struggles in off the street. Along with artist Ezra Li Eismont in the project room, the show opens from 7 to 10 PM and is on view through September 6th at 49 Bogart Street. Following the show’s closure, Ad Hoc Art will jettison the space but continue showcasing and supporting the community of artists they’ve created in recent years through other venues, including an “artist residency, education center, and creative think tank” they’re building in Vermont. Read the full Ad Hoc Art manifesto after the jump. Read more »
The spray painted list of things not to be fucked with continues growing in Bushwick.
Photo by Jake Dobkin
Behold the evolving, communal style of discourse that spray paint in Bushwick provides.
Photo by Becki Fuller
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