Tekashi69 X Maduro: Pen Pals
- The trouble-prone Bushwick native and former Stay Fresh Deli & Grill (887 Broadway) sandwich artist Tekashi69 made headlines again when he scored an autograph for his stuffed SpongeBob from kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro before being released from lockup in downtown Brooklyn, per a video the artist also known as Daniel Hernandez posted on Instagram.
Bushwick Tenant Union vs. Cayuga Capital
- Check out this report from Myriam Robinson‑Puche in Shadowbanned Magazine: “Mega Gentrifier” Cayuga hit the leader of Bushwick Tenant Union with a $500,000 SLAPP lawsuit for organizing against them. This article has it all: corporations making slideshow reports of 2000s hipsters, Cayuga Capital’s psycho legal goon, and rats—lots of rats…
People’s Coalition to Stop Deed Theft vs. Deed Theft
- City Councilman Chi Ossé made headlines after getting arrested at the site of an attempted eviction by the NYPD at the home of Carmella Charrington in Bed-Stuy. The protest was part of an ongoing campaign by activist group The People’s Coalition to Stop Deed Theft to take broad steps against the sometimes elaborate, predatory schemes that have separated thousands of New Yorkers from their property under legally dubious circumstances. It wasn’t long after Ossé’s arrest that Mamdani followed through on a campaign promise and announced the establishment of an office to combat deed theft.
- One thing is for sure, Ossé sure didn’t pick the easiest, most cut and dry fight: the full story of 212 Jefferson, where he was arrested, involves an allegedly crooked conservatorship started by Charrington’s father’s ex-wife and a pair of brothers who’ve been engaging in varied deed theft schemes all over New York. Attorney General Letitia James wouldn’t even explicitly say the case represented actual deed theft. Meanwhile, Charrington had just spent the week in Rikers for not producing her old man in the conservatorship battle.
- Curiously underreported was the fact that both Charrington and local activist Omar Hardy were also both kicked off the ballot for a local Democratic Party race for allegedly falsifying signatures last week— a charge the New Kings Democrats group called “ridiculous and anti-democratic,” while noting that the challenge came from the Democratic Party itself and not the Board of Elections.
$200,000 Geologist vs. Bushwick
- The New York Times proved they still have the juice to do what they do best: write a weird article that pisses everyone off, this time about a recently promoted geologist living in a crowded Burning Man tech loft.
- To be fair, even though the framing of the article is goofy as hell—how can’t you live in Bushwick on a $200,000 salary?—and the subject makes the unbelievable claim that “his idea of a date was a walk in Central Park” on his previous 70k salary—the other articles in the series appear to be honest examinations of how average Americans are scraping by in 2026, and not sophisticated psyops designed to demoralize the working class. This one, though, feels more like the other types of articles the Times publishes on the regular—the ones where they interview rich people buying condos or goldfish-brained Trump supporters. Which leads us to the question: is the Times just fucking with us? Grime Square reached out to several Times sources, but so far the jury is still out.
Bushwick vs. ICE
- A number of Bushwick residents squared off against cars full of plainclothes ICE agents on Greene Avenue last month, as several faced down a car for at least twenty minutes one morning, eventually escorting them out of the neighborhood as other protestors blew whistles and shouted to warn locals.
- More recently, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center was the center of a flare up between ICE and “as many as 200 protesters” who gathered there, per one report, to protest the detention of an immigrant from Nigeria who allegedly overstayed a visa. The feds say the arrest was the result of “a targeted enforcement operation” and he had requested medical attention. Local police ended up arresting eight and setting up a larger political debate over whether or not they are coordinating with ICE. Sandy Nurse, Reynoso, et. are all weighing in.
Pascha vs. Community Board 1
- International nightlife impresarios faced off against the cranky Brooklynites of Community Board 1 this month, as Pacha CEO Kabir Mulchandani and his cohort passed out business cards and tried to assuage fears about the soon-to-be opened club. Sure, the last multimillion dollar club built on the site was an iconic boondoggle that never reopened after its defective renovation, ripped people off, and sat in limbo after its parent company went bankrupt. But…. maybe this one will be cooler? After putting on his best TikTok motivational content (we assume), Mulchandani assured residents the new club would have better transportation, AI security (lol) and other features that will make it less murder-y than the Mirage, expertly running the classic “Yo, we don’t even know those guys” defense.
- After people started noticing that the site, expected to be a multimillion dollar club in two months, is still just a vacant lot, FIVE Holdings, the Dubai company that owns Pascha, told the Post‘s Nicole Rosenthal that, actually, there’s an “off-site” stage being built elsewhere, and everything is actually totally chill. Earlier Post coverage took aim at the new club’s prospective $150 ticket prices.
Broadway vs. Violence
- A 26 year old was stabbed to death, and another man hospitalized for knife wounds, after an argument outside the bar Marco’s (1071 Broadway) last Saturday night. Two suspects were taken into custody. Two nights later, further down the street, a 39 year old was wounded after a gunman opened fire into his parked car.
- On another recent weekend, a young partier was stabbed in the back after bumping into the wrong person at a club, which seems to have occurred around Broadway Junction, per exclusive stabbing footage run on News 12. To make things worse, he says the nurses at Brookdale Hospital are “completely unprofessional” and “threw stuff on me.”
Brian Jones Kraft is a writer who has been living in Bushwick for over a decade and a half. He has previously written extensively about the legacy of Andrew Cuomo, David Dinkins and that mural on the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Evergreen.
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