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PHOTOS: The Women Of Bushwick

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.20.2013 | New York

After seeing Leland Bobbé's photo series, 'The Women Of Fifth Avenue,' photographer Elizabeth Bick contacted us about her own series: portraits of th...

Kenny Scharf Got Arrested for Snake Graffiti and Spent 20 Hours in Jail in Brooklyn

ARTINFO | Posted 04.23.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

"Just spent 20 hours in 2 Brooklyn jails for this," Kenny Scharf wrote on Facebook when posting the above image of one of his signature graffiti piece...

PHOTO: A Naked Waitress At Roberta's (NSFW)

Posted 01.09.2013 | New York

A longtime Roberta's waitress decided to make her last shift a memorable one this weekend, serving patrons in almost nothing but her birthday suit. ...

Indoor Cabins: Treehouse & Tiny Hut in Brooklyn Loft for $2K (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 11.28.2012 | HuffPost Home
Kirsten Dirksen

Architect Terri Chiao knew she couldn't afford the rent on a 750-square-foot Brooklyn loft without a roommate, but she didn't want to divide it up with walls. Instead, she built a cabin and a treehouse inside the space to be used as private living quarters.

NYPD Recovers Assault Rifle At Gun Buyback

Posted 09.20.2012 | New York

85 weapons were recovered at an NYPD gun buyback program organized over the weekend at at the Evergeen Baptist Church in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The da...

West Nile Virus Detected In Brooklyn

Patch | Posted 08.20.2012 | New York

The West Nile Virus has been detected in zip codes covering Prospect Heights, Prospect Park and Park Slope. According to the NYC Department of Heal...

Anna Sanders

Man Accidentally Killed Murder Accomplice, Prosecutors Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Anna Sanders | Posted 06.26.2012 | New York

A Brooklyn man's revenge plot against a city garbage collector was foiled two years ago when he accidentally shot and killed his accomplice and friend...

(R)EVOLUTION at TEDXChelsea: A Timely Vehicle to the Paradigm Shift

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 08.05.2012 | Arts
Lisa Paul Streitfeld

Blindfolding the critic: TEDXChelsea's "The true value of art is rarely what someone will pay for it" catapulted new stars into the art world filame...

What To Do This Weekend: B'wick Open Studios, Howl And JB Smoove

Posted 06.01.2012 | New York

Bushwick Open Studios Where: Various locations When: Friday-Saturday Price: Free Arts in Bushwick celebrates its 6th year organizing Bushwick Open...

Is New York Still A Home For Artists?

Priscilla Frank | Posted 07.08.2012 | Home
Priscilla Frank

When asked if New York was the art capital in the 1960s the result was a unanimous "yes," so what changed? The most convincing reason was a positive one: simply, globalization happened, and the center shifted.

Astoria Characters: The Soup-to-Nuts Storyteller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 06.03.2012 | New York
Nancy Ruhling

Giuseppe Viterale never starts or ends the day without a cup of espresso. He fires up a little gas burner, spoons in the ground coffee and puts the aluminum one-cup pot atop the steady blue flame. "This is like a religious ritual for me," he says.

NYPD Cop Shot In The Head In Brooklyn

Posted 02.01.2012 | New York

An NYPD officer shot while chasing a suspect in Brooklyn is in critical condition Wednesday morning at Bellevue Hospital but doctors say he is expecte...

WATCH: Filmmaker Explores Brooklyn's Underground Sewers

Posted 01.25.2012 | New York

As jaded New Yorkers, we're more likely to put on a been there/done that attitude rather than risk looking like a newbie. Grand Central's secret whisp...

Fires Kill 1, Injure 10

AP | Posted 03.16.2012 | New York

NEW YORK — A 7-year-old Brooklyn boy died in one of two late-night fires that sent 10 other people to hospitals suffering from smoke inhalation....

Did NYPD Conduct 'Biased' Investigation Of Slain BK Bicyclist?

Posted 12.19.2011 | New York

An attorney representing the family of Mathieu Lefevre, the Williamsburg artist who was killed in October by a flatbed truck driver, has sent a letter...

WATCH: Parallel Parking Genius In Bushwick

Posted 12.08.2011 | New York

Who says New Yorkers are bad drivers? However aggressive and honk-happy we may be on the road, we're also probably the world's most talented (or fana...

The Week In Art

Posted 12.14.2011 | Arts

This week at HuffPost Arts we indulged our reality TV guilty pleasures with the 'Work of Art' season premiere, fought the LA ban on murals with street...

Performance Artist Plans To Give Birth In Bushwick Gallery

Posted 12.07.2011 | New York

​Now that Facebook has decided to publish a timeline that includes all of our online goings-on since birth, we wonder what a tangible chronicle of t...

Does Giving Birth In A Gallery Count As Art?

BUSHWICK DAILY | Posted 12.06.2011 | Arts

Bushwick's Microscope Gallery will bring an extraordinary real life performance piece opening this Saturday October 8, 2011. Bushwick-based artist Mar...

Is Gentrification Always Bad?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 12.04.2011 | Latino Voices
Daniel Cubias

Achieving that balance between community improvement and neighborhood assassination is, to say the least, a difficult balancing act. Some say that it cannot be done.

Tomorrow's Special Election: What Voters Should Know

Posted 11.12.2011 | New York

In May, Democrats pulled off a major upset in New York's 26th Congressional District, winning a special election in a district Republicans had held fo...

Mom Busts Brooklyn Teen Who Robbed Elderly Woman

Posted 10.04.2011 | New York

Police have arrested arrested a suspect in the Brooklyn robbery of 78 year-old, wheelchair-bound Catalina Mateo. The New York Daily News reports th...

WATCH: Thief Snatches Purse From Old Woman In Wheelchair

Posted 10.03.2011 | New York

The NYPD has released surveillance footage of a man snatching the purse of a wheelchair-bound elderly woman in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. A...

Arts Thrive in Bushwick

Vera Haller | Posted 08.08.2011 | New York
Vera Haller

"You can't stop change" is a truism applicable to any New York City neighborhood, especially those that are attractive to the young, hip and creative. Take, for example, Bushwick in Brooklyn.

Can One Brooklyn Democrat Stop 'Crown Heights' From Becoming 'ProCro'?

Posted 06.20.2011 | New York

Naming New York neighborhoods is a traditional free-for-all and it's no secret that real-estate brokers shamelessly rebrand areas to make them more at...