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 bartenders at Bushwick-area bars, including Pine Box Rock Shop, Pink Metal, Abe’s Pagoda, 101 Wilson, Bootleg Bar, The Cobra Club, Forrest Point and Heavy Woods, recently lent their scruffy, inked pulchritude to the photographic project of Leslie Hong, floor manager at jack-of-all-trades bar Our Wicked Lady.

The result, an affectionate ode to Bushwick’s raw, wild bar scene, is a calendar called “Bushwick Bar Babes of 2021.” It features both men and women, arranged and...[click here to read full article]