The Brooklyn Ink

Brooklyn Morning – Food Cart Woes at Atlantic-Pacific

by Idil Abshir After Thanksgiving people often feel rejuvenated, ready to power through to Christmas. For food cart vendors however, the days after the turkey and dressing, cranberry and pies, signal one thing: bad business. [...]

Brooklyn Morning – Columbus Park Evangelists

by Joi-Marie McKenzie On the corner of Joralemon and Court Street right outside of Columbus Park, two African-American men dressed in black evangelized to passersby. A young man wearing a blue backpack and Brooklyn Dodgers [...]

Brooklyn Morning — The Accident, Boerum Hill

by Yolanne Almanzar A loud crunching sound filled the air of the brisk November morning. It is 10 a.m. On the corner of State St. and Flatbush Ave., a white Marquis ambulette crashed into a [...]

Brooklyn Morning – Monday After Black Friday at The Atlantic Center

by Cambrey Thomas The early Monday morning post-Black Friday at the Target on Atlantic Avenue was sleepy. The store opened at 8 a.m., but by 10 a.m. things still had not picked up. Half a [...]

Brooklyn Morning — Morning Jo(lt)

By Becky Bratu “Where did you hear about it?” The Pulp & The Bean coffee shop owner Tony Fisher asked the young Korean man who had just ordered his recently launched Dieci drink, which is [...]

Brooklyn Morning — Eye on the Pies in Red Hook

By Alex Gecan In flux between Thanksgiving and Christmas, two Red Hook bakeries are focusing on holiday staple: Pie. Baked, a bakery and cafe at 359 Van Brundt St., and Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies [...]

Brooklyn Morning — Shoes Foot the Bill

By Abigail Ronck Through the windows of Sammy Elhage’s store on 5th Avenue in Sunset Park, rows and rows of tiny boots—sized for infants and up—in gray, navy and brown faux suede lined the shelves. [...]

Brooklyn Morning — Hanukkah Prep in Crown Heights

by Becky Bratu Twenty-five minutes after it opened for business, Judaica World on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights was already bustling. Customers wove in and out to check out the sale. With Hanukkah only two [...]

Brooklyn Morning — Williamsburg Yawning to Life

By Celyan Yeginsu El Beit, the Williamsburg coffee shop, opens its doors at 7 a.m. But rush hour doesn’t begin until after 9. Locals wandered in sluggishly after the holiday weekend.  They woke gradually as [...]

Brooklyn Morning — McCarren Park Christmas Lot

By Evan MacDonald At the corner of Manhattan and Driggs avenues, just outside McCarren Park, Greg’s Quality Christmas Trees has started its annual sale of classic holiday ferns. The stand started selling last Friday, said [...]