It is with great sadness that we announce that we will be shutting down the Bushwick Social Club. In the short year that we lived in Bushwick we were lucky enough to watch it transform into what is becoming an increasingly vibrant neighborhood.
We started the Bushwick Social Club as a way to help stimulate culture and activity our here in our neck of the woods. Now, only a few months later, we are closing our doors.
Life has a lot of ins-and-outs and what-have-you’s. Due to some of these unforeseen circumstances, we are moving out of Bushwick. Believe me, we are very sad to leave and we have enjoyed our time here.
I hope you have enjoyed reading our little blog. We enjoyed writing it.
I leave you now with a happy little song: The 9th Wonder remix of the Roy Ayers classic “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” from the Verve Remixed 4 album. Enjoy the summer Bushwick, we’ll be back to check in.
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine (9th Wonder Remix): Play Now | Play in Popup
I heard a lot of buzz on Bodega but I have yet to check it out. It just opened up in April. From my understanding you actually walk through a bodega to enter the spot. Chief Magazine seems to have something to do with the establishment. It’s right down the street from Goodbye Blue Monday.
“A man who told cops he was the president of the United States went on a rampage in Bushwick, hurling a brick at a car, spraying a fire extinguisher into traffic and scrapping with officers, authorities said yesterday.”
Bush has already caused enough problems in the US and worldwide. Now he’s got the gall to come to Bushwick and spray a fire extinguisher into traffic? Fuck that.
A beverage truck was parked near my bodega delivering what appeared to be this drink called Tropical Fantasy. What really caught my eye was a HUGE image of Mr. Cee on the back pointing at me drinking his Tropical Fantasy branded beverage, The Finisher! I didn’t have a camera on me and search as I may, I couldn’t find an image remotely close to the ad so we actually called the Brooklyn Bottling Group who graciously laced us with the image. Though we found out the promotion of the drink is over and they may have even discontinued The Finisher, this needed to be documented nonetheless. Here’s a gem from Wikipedia about Tropical Fantasy
Tropical Fantasy is an inexpensive soft-drink, originally from Brooklyn, New York. Its low price of 25¢ per 20-ounce bottle led to its success in the 1990s. Tropical Fantasy was initially popular in inner city areas, especially those with dense African-American and Hispanic populations. The company did not employ large marketing campaigns and used simple store displays and low prices to sell its drinks. This made the product almost invisible to consumers not living in areas where the beverages were sold.
Damn, why can’t that shit still be 25¢!? And why can’t I find The Finisher? That could’ve very well become the official Bushwick Social Club beverage! Truly an exclusive BK gem here people. Don’t sleep.
The other week, we did a post about the homies from Internets Celebrities and their video Checkmate about Check Cashing spots in Bushwick and East New York. Well, the video has since begun to spread like wildfire and even caught the attention of NPR host, Brian Lehrer. Rafi and Dallas were invited to join Brian on his TV show, Brian Lehrer Live. Here is the clip of them on the show. Doing big things fellas! Now if you want to go real big, we’ll see you at the Bushwick Social Club party on the 21st!
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine (9th Wonder Remix): 
