The Brooklyn Ink

Battle of the Boardwalk: Concrete or Wood?

The iconic planks of Coney Island and Brighton Beach are due for a makeover, and not everyone is pleased. Despite a cool evening rain, Dionne Rose and Jason Zanora decided to walk out to the [...]

An Italian-American Sunset Falls on Carroll Gardens

Their Numbers Have Fallen and Now Their Cultural Influence is Waning, Amid an Influx of Gentrifiers

The Old Man and The Bridge

Whenever John Manbeck, an 80-year-old retired professor of English and former Brooklyn borough historian, drives across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stays in the middle lane. “Drivers tend to drift toward the edges,” said Manbeck. Manbeck [...]

A Rising Tide of Sephardic Jews Brings Change to the Yeshivah of Flatbush

The venerable day-school, once overwhelmingly Ashkenazi, adapts to match the neighborhood’s transformation

Kites and Their Riders Fill the Skies Above Jamaica Bay

The fast-growing sport of kiteboarding has a hub along Plum Beach in South Brooklyn

In Judge Nikkia’s Court,
A Response to Teen Crime

An innovative youth court, focused on responsibility more than punishment, deals with Brownsville’s rising caseload

Pleasure Island or Local Pain?

East Gravesend is divided about a proposed nightspot.

New York’s Final Taxidermist is Moving Shop

John Youngaitis sells the Cypress Hills studio space that was a menagerie for more than a half-century.

Chernobyl’s Ripples Sicken Brooklyn Immigrants

Exposure to radiation 25 years ago appears to have caused a spike in thyroid cancer rates among Soviet émigrés in the Coney Island area