By Drew Grant 9/22/11 9:21am

Food

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Pancake House Opens For Pancake Business In Bushwick, East Village

IHOP is usually where you go during those trips back home after you’ve gotten drunk with friends, hooked up with that girl you went to high school with, and then puked out your dinner at 3 a.m. in mom’s parking lot. Anyone up for pancakes??

So yes, it’s a little unnerving to see not one, but two IHOP opening up in the Brooklyn/Manhattan area: it’s like finding out you can now order Moon Over My Hammy at The Spotted Pig. Well, not quite that bad, but… Read More

By Matt Chaban 10/20/10 4:18pm

Eyesores

Checkerboard Blue Ugly Even for Bushwick

The real estate boom littered slapdash, unattractive buildings all across the city, especially in the North Brooklyn precincts of Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick. The latter, with its working class, clapboard rowhouses, is not especially known for its beauty to begin with–it is no Crown Heights or Midwood–yet this new development at 64 Palmetto Street, near Read More

By Matt Chaban 10/06/10 10:15pm

Corruption

Is Vito Lopez Bad for Bushwick?

One of the most common defenses made of Brooklyn Democratic boss and Assembly Housing Chair Vito Lopez — espoused by himself and others — is that while he may bend the rules, it is always in the service of his beloved Bushwick.

The Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Center, which Lopez founded in the ’70s Read More

By Lydia DePillis 1/20/09 3:47am

Building Stories: The Knickerbocker and Bushwick’s ‘Big Sickness’

Bushwick, sandwiched between Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant, has long enjoyed the epithet "up-and-coming"-"emerging" even. But is Brooklyn’s new frontier ready for the Knickerbocker?

A third-generation family of grocers had owned the Scaturro Supermarket at 320 Knickerbocker Avenue since the 1970s. Although the residential space above it has been empty for 20 years, the market operated profitably Read More