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The Seneca is Back, With Several New Strings to its Bow

In case you weren’t aware, The Seneca, a handsome, spacious bar and restaurant just over the border in Ridgewood, recently reopened for...

Orient Grove: Williamsburg's Best Kept Secret

There’s a neat, poetic symmetry to the life of Dominick Ferro, the primary custodian of Orient Grove. His shaded community garden has...

The Digestivos Go Down Easy at AmmazzaCaffé

Ammazzacaffé, an Italian-inspired restaurant in Eastern Williamsburg just west of Graham Avenue, marries consistent quality with...

The Rookery Returns

Despite recent alarms rung by the CDC, the city of New York is quaking with eagerness to wriggle out of COVID’s constrictive yoke. Spring...

A Nightmare on Irving Avenue

According to New York assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal, the state is suffering. It’s the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression...

Baked Goods, Booze and Banh Mi on Wyckoff Avenue

Jaime Hodgkin lounged back in a chair on the sunny back patio of High Low Beverage Company, his Vietnam-tinged eatery and bar on Wyckoff...

Ridgewood Halal Market a Multi-Generational Grind

In New York City, a phrase like ethnic market can often feel, for all intents and purposes, obsolete. Having said that, there’s still...

What More Street Vendor Permits Mean For Bushwick

Last week, a long-fought-for bill was passed lifting a 40-year cap on street food vendor permits in New York City. The expected result,...

Bushwick Bars Dress Down For Pin-up

Bushwick has its own calendar, and it’s not your aunt Sheila’s 2019 copy of “Nixon Through The Years.” The facts are these: several...

Bars Turn To Hibernation As Industry Struggles to Cope with Cuomo's COVID Directives

In mid-to-late-March, when the puddles of grey filth frozen hard against the curbs of Bushwick and in her potholes melt away, new...

Peter's Crunchy Red Tacos Brings Birria to Bushwick

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic aside, Peter Luna opened his Crunchy Red Tacos at an opportune moment. Region-specific Mexican food has...

Paperboy Prince & Kathryn Garcia Exchange Pie and Ideas

Last Sunday, in a tiny but prominent retail and community space on Myrtle Avenue, an embodiment of the prosaic and practical in New York...

Bushwick Nurse Among Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People Of 2020

Time Magazine has announced its annual gallery of Top 100 most influential people in the world, and among the well-known politicians,...

NYC Bagel Chains Brings Montreal Flavor to Bushwick

If several weeks ago you noticed that Bushwick, of all places, had seemed to have become just a shade more Ashkenazi – and, just maybe,...

Hospitality Under Siege: Gordo's Cantina and Pizzette

We’ve come quite a distance from the virally virginal days of early March when we were still adjusting to certain grim realities I need...

Bushwick's Source For BBQ Brisket Pho Reopens For Delivery and Pickup

Johnny Huynh, Bushwick native and owner of Lucy's Kitchen These are, to put it lightly, keenly anxious times for the restaurant and bar...

Money is Power : Support Black Businesses

Let’s assume, for a moment, that blatant, vicious police brutality perpetrated against black people has only recently compelled you to...

Sweet Chili, Acclaimed for Creative Southeast Asian Food, To Reopen For Pickup & Delivery

Chef Lisa Fernandes with Tom Colicchio on the set of Top Chef. Here’s a (long-winded) Jeopardy question for all you Bushwegians: “A queer...

Hospitality Under Siege, Episode 1: Moto Distillery & Kato Sake Works

L to R: Marie Estrada of Moto Distillery and Shinobu Kato, owner of Kato Sake Works For those of us born into circumstances commonly, if...

Gordo's Cantina Makes Bushwick a Destination for Authentic Mexican Food

Gordo’s Cantina, a brand new restaurant on the eastern border of Bushwick, offers something rare for New York: skillfully executed,...

Pizzette Serves Tradition and $1 Oysters in East Williamsburg

Steve Sciacca, longtime Bushwick restauranteur (Mominette, Bushwick Bakery), takes his last name from the coastal Sicilian town from...

Bushwick Distilleries: A Guide

Compared to beer and wine-making, distillation is a violent process. Where the former substances gently bubble away under fermentation’s...

Your Guide to $1 Oyster Happy Hours

For centuries in New York the slippery, opalescent oyster dominated the shores, their bone white shell fragments crunching underfoot....

Bushwick: A Latin American Buffet

[Editor's note: The following six paragraphs were from the writer's original edit of this Bushwick Daily article - which were not...

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