The Brooklyn Ink

Community Programs Fill Gaps in Childhood Obesity Policy

By Faaria Kherani Over the past year, Mayor Bloomberg has implemented a variety of policies to combat childhood obesity, but New York City doctors, health educators, and the Health Department’s own representatives are now saying [...]

Fighting For Their Freedom: The Ongoing Struggle between New York’s Psychologically Disabled and the Adult Homes They Live In

By Brian Park Coney Island winters can be unforgiving. Gone are the tourists and beachgoers of the summer months. The cold winds, exacerbated in their fury by the Atlantic, bite at exposed skin like an [...]

Red Hook’s Zoning Battle: Housing versus Industry

By Lea Khayata. Jay Amato thought he had it all planned. He was going to build his own house on a piece of land he bought at the corner of Van Brunt and Conover streets [...]

Nollywood’s Fight Against Piracy

by La Toya Tooles Outside of Judith Teko’s hair salon is a street vendor that sells winter hats and gloves, Pashmina scarves, cell phone cases and handbags. Propped up on the table he has DVDs [...]

Private-Public Partnership Keeps Brooklyn Parks Clean, Beautiful

by Alejandro Lopez de Haro This past 15th of September a tornado hit Brooklyn in the late afternoon, bringing a fright to the residents of New York City’s largest borough. Strong winds and hail plummeted [...]

The History of Bedford Avenue

By Becky Bratu and Lillian Rizzo To understand Brooklyn, you have to know its history, its neighborhoods, its people. And its Bedford Avenue. The southern end of Brooklyn’s longest thoroughfare begins at a Sheepshead Bay [...]

Bedford Avenue Project: When They Lived in Brooklyn

Over the past two weeks we have been running stories aimed at the question, “Who is Brooklyn?” Today is the last day of the Bedford Avenue Project and although some features, such as the interactive [...]

Bedford Avenue Interactive Map

THE WHO IS BROOKLYN? MAP The Brooklyn Ink is collecting data on as many people in BK as possible to answer the question “Who is Brooklyn?” We’re making an interactive map that you can view [...]

Voices of Bedford Ave

By Idil Abshir, Yolanne Almanzar, Joseph Deaux, Mariya Karimjee, and Abigail Ronck Reporters for The Brooklyn Ink speak to residents of Bedford Avenue who explain why its longest avenue matters. . Brooklyn Native Jose Ortiz [...]

Bedford Avenue Interactive Slideshow

The staff of the Ink stitched together an interactive slideshow that takes you from McCarren Park in Greenpoint to Sheepshead Bay. Along the way we’ve put together eight audio slideshows of businesses or places along [...]