The Brooklyn Ink

The Hookah Cafe

By Abigail Ronck Five men are smoking tobacco through hookahs at a Bay Ridge café Friday morning, completely uninterested in Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Cairo streets. The footage, say these Egyptian immigrants, is entirely [...]

The Webmasters

By Lillian Rizzo and Saskia de Rothschild In the back room of a dark Chinese Internet Café in Sunset Park, Omar Abouelnas and two of his friends watch handheld footage captured by their friends from [...]

Thursday Evening: At the Mosque, Anger

By Muhammad Bilal Lakhani On the eve of the “Day of Departure,” Egyptians are furious as they gather inside a mosque for evening prayers. They want their president, who has been in power for over [...]

Far From Home: Anxious Day for Brooklyn Egyptians

Today, the staff of the Ink is across the borough chronicling the reactions of Brooklyn’s Egyptians to the events unfolding in Cairo.

The Little Street That Could

By Idil Abshir Cortelyou Road feels so self-contained that at times it resembles a small town. Like a residential Russian doll, Cortelyou Road has become a neighborhood within the broader neighborhood of Flatbush. A seven-block [...]