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 the [...]

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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 century real estate [...]

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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 [...]

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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 ice cream. [...]

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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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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 its [...]

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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 different [...]

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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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