The Brooklyn Ink

Councilman Charles Barron wants intelligent design taught in NYC schools-Brooklyn Politics

Read the blurb at The Brooklyn Politics blog.

Ultra-Orthodox women fight for right to join Hatzalah ambulance service- Haaretz

The fight against the exclusively male character of Hatzalah, a veteran EMS service,  is led by Rachel Freier, known as “Rochi” among her friends, a Haredi attorney and resident of the predominately ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic [...]

“Brooklyn came awfully close to becoming an East Coast Detroit.” – City Journal

In 1982, I moved with my husband and our two young children into a partly renovated brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Last year, New Yorkpronounced the area “the most livable neighborhood in New York City,” but [...]

Panel Recommends Broad Changes for Brooklyn Hospitals- WNYC

A state panel says says six of Brooklyn’s 15 hospitals aren’t economically viable in their current state — and three are in the middle of “financial crises.” The hospitals are running deficits, they have many [...]

Hundreds Rally Against CUNY Tuition Hike

As the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees voted Monday to raise tuition, students and professors took to the streets in protest.  For nearly four hours, protesters rallied outside Baruch College, marched [...]

Thanksgiving fire leaves infant, five others in critical condition

Fire-fighters resuscitated 8-month-old Josiah Alexis who had stopped breathing for five minutes in the aftermath of a fire at an apartment building on President Street at Park Slope, Brooklyn. Alexis was placed on a ventilator [...]

Places Everyone: Life Behind the Curtain

What happens in a theater’s dressing room? Anna Codrea-Rado goes behind the scenes at the Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO to see what life is like backstage

NBA Superstars to Hold Charity Event in Brooklyn

Basketball superstars Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwayne Wade and LeBron James will be in Brooklyn tommorow handing out 800 meals to Brooklyn families at the Boys and Girls Club of America. The players were initially [...]

In Cypress Hills, a Little-Known Monument to Journalism’s Short Memory – City Room

Journalists are easily forgotten. May be, that is why in 1874, newspaper fraternity took title to 24 lots – room for 360 graves – on a hilltop at the Cypress Hills Cemetery, straddling the Brooklyn-Queens line. Read [...]

CUNY tuition slam – NY Post

The City University’s Board of Trustees is voting today to increase its tuition. According to the plan, the cost for undergrads would be $6,330 a year at CUNY by 2015. In 2010, the cost of [...]