BUSHWICK TO DO:
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Join a COMMUNITY
GARDEN or spend the afternoon in one! Bushwick’s number of Gardens have grown in the last few years- now more than ever access to a Community plot is only a few blocks away. No garden close by? Check with 596 acres & maybe turn that vacant lot into a Community Garden. 596acres.org
Have a beverage & hang out at
EXPRESS YOURSELF 6 BARISTA BAR. A welcoming Attend a BUSHWICK locally owned & operated coffee COMMUNITY BASED shop with killer coffee and REZONING MEETING. comfortable atmosphere. Tip your
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Bushwick is currently undergoing a Community Based Rezoning which will determine the types of New developments built & inform some of the changes in Bushwick for the next generation. This process won’t work without YOU. Share your vision for & experience in Bushwick. https://www.facebook.com/ bushwickrezoning
barista. 82 Central Avenue
Subscribe to BKROT and have your food scraps picked up for local composting while supporting youth employment initiatives. BKROT.org Spend a Sunday afternoon at the
BUSHWICK VENDORS MARKET. If you’re lucky ELM
will be performing & you can shop locally & mingle with neighbors, all while taking in a powerful Bushwick Youth performance. www.BushwickVendorsMarket. weebly.com & EducatedLittleMonsters@gmail. com
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Attend a COMMUNITY
Buy stuff from a STREET
VENDOR. Buy your hat or
BOARD 4 MEETING.
Catch up on local news & politics, learn about city & private plans for your community, and hear what your Bushwick neighbors are working on. You can share your work, events or concerns. Talk about what you learn with others unable to attend. Also dinner is usually served. Every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 195 Linden, Hope Gardens, 6:00800PM.
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deodorant or horchata from that table set up on the street or from the cart on the corner. That person is working hard to compete with Duane Reade & the 99Cent store. Support your neighbors & support informal small scale local economies, get delicious & affordable products.
When it’s warmer go watch
a SOCCER GAME behind Green Noll Park. Free and fun. Noll & Evergreen.
SEPARATE OUT BOTTLES & CANS
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that have redemption value from your other recyclables. Chat with the person who you sometimes see sorting through your building’s recycling bin (should you & your super be so organized) sometimes it’s easy to coordinate where & when you leave your redeemable bottles- this makes pick up & sorting easier for the Canners making a living off this work. SUREWECAN.org
Go hang out in our largest local swath of open space considered as usable open space for resident use by the Department of City Planning:
EVERGREEN CEMETERY/CEMETERY OF THE EVERGREENS. Located in South East Bushwick.
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Get a large fresh juice from
MR.KIWI - so fresh, so cheap.
Pineapple, ginger, orange & kale is a recommended blend. Tip your Juicer. Broadway & Myrtle. Then have suadero tacos at
AZTECA IZUCAR TACOS, 1503 Myrtle Avenue. If that’s too far have a slice of
TONY’S PIZZA,
443 Kinckerbocker Avenue.
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Find your BLOCK
ASSOCIATION and join it; or start one with your Neighbors. Talk to long term residents of your Block and join them in forming one. http://www.citizensnyc. org/sites/default/files/ public-attachments/resource/ starting_a_block_association
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ASSOCIATED FOOD
has a decent selection of organic items fresh produce, some quality meats & grocery staples at locally acceptable prices & they accept EBT-a convenient one stop shop after hanging out in Maria Hernandez Park. Kinckerbocker & Starr.
Get your tires rotated or oil
checked at the SHELL on Bushwick & Jefferson. These guys are ingenuitous & patient & can fix your janky car. Or fill out the Bushwick D.O.T.
BIKE SURVEY. http:// www.surveymonkey.com/s/ BushwickBikes
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Spit on luxury developments. Some are worse than others but generally any luxury Development will work. Dig deep & project. Examples: Colony 1209, Castlebraid. Any Nooklyn or Myspace rental office or building will work too…OK so spitting is not your style...and think about who has to clean that up… you could write a google or yelp review of the development/business and maybe think about how these developments come to be, who they are for, and who they impact; then maybe think about ways you
can GET INVOLVED in the community & its changes. NWBcommunity.org
2015 Brought to you by: North West Bushwick Community Group