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Vintage Bushwick Trailer Park Trailers 4 Sale!

Vintage Bushwick Trailer Park Trailers 4 Sale!

The saga of the Bushwick Trailer Park is coming to an end. According to the Gray Lady the 20-person art collective has succombed to The Man, who earlier this year evicted them from their warehouse rental housing their RVs. But their loss is your gain! The paper reports that founder Hayden Cummings is currently selling the trailers on Craigslist for very reasonable prices! more ›

Evicted From Your Bushwick Warehouse Trailer Park? Red Cross Has You Covered!

    

The twenty residents that were living in what has come to be known as the Bushwick Trailer Park are now being taken care of by Red Cross. The artist community had set up shop in an empty warehouse in the neighborhood for a year, but were recently issued a vacate order (one month after The Man already came down on them and started towing their trailers out of the space). The FDNY's Frank Dwyer wouldn't go into detail with us about the incident, but told us "there are still conditions which are imminently perilous to human life." more ›

Bushwick Trailer Park Artist Community Busted Up Again, Facing Arrest?

Bushwick Trailer Park Artist Community Busted Up Again, Facing Arrest?

Last month the twenty citizens of the Bushwick Trailer Park were evicted from the space they'd been inhabiting without warning. At the time we talked to one of the residents, who told us, "It's been a stressful week. Imagine having an apartment for a whole year and then one day the police knock on your door and issue you summons for trespassing! It wasn't the eviction process that all New Yorkers are entitled to, it was two cops and a bulldozer. We were paying rent just like anyone else. We're now e-mailing and calling anybody and everybody who might have a lot or some land we can park these things on temporarily. If we had been given 30 days, we and all the grumpy internet commenters out there could all be having a laugh about a Greenpoint Trailer Park or maybe a Red Hook Trailer Park." more ›

Bushwick Trailer Park Commune Busted Up

Bushwick Trailer Park Commune Busted Up

How quickly we forget about the things that once entertained us, for example, do you recall the Bushwick trailer park artist commune? They were fun. In 2009 they set up shop and for two whole months were l-i-v-i-n' the dream... until the FDNY came knocking. At that point we talked to someone on the inside, who told us they were laying low for a while. Now, HEEB tells their story upon their departure... that's right, they were kicked to the curb. They report: more ›

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