The Brooklyn Ink

Lower Income Schools Serve Less Healthy Lunches

In one attempt to improve students’ lunch options, the New York City Department of Education began offering schools all-you-can-eat salad bars. PS 151 in Bushwick ordered its salad bar last year, but did not receive [...]

On the Waterfront

The Brooklyn Ink explored the borough to see what was happening on Brooklyn’s vast waterfont. Here’s what we found in the water.

[VIDEO] Disabled New Yorkers Struggle to Get Around

Trudging up the stairs on the subway, it’s easy to forget that there are New Yorkers who can’t make it past a single step. They suffer from mobility issues or need a wheelchair to get around.

A Tasting for Brooklyn Palates

What ever you were in the mood for Tuesday night, you could have found at The Green Building in Cobble Hill, and you could have smelled it from the subway station on Smith Street – Mac and cheese, escargot soup, lobster salad, BBQ ribs, tacos, granola, chicken hot dogs or a cookie ice cream sandwich, it was all available at the third annual Tasting Brooklyn event.

[VIDEO] Opera to Drag: Brooklyn Queen is a New Pioneer

Alotta McGriddles (no McDonald’s affiliation) performs her way to the height of her career.

SUNY Orders LICH Closure Again in Court-Ordered Public Meeting

Tuesday afternoon, the State University of New York voted, once again, to close Long Island College Hospital, citing financial difficulties. A Brooklyn judge ruled last week that SUNY’s Board of Trustees had to hold a public meeting on the closure [...]

VIDEO: Brooklyn Keeps Sipping: Soda Ban Overturned

After the soda ban was overturned, Brooklyn movie theaters, along with the soft drink industry and civil rights groups who’d filed a lawsuit against the ban, breathed a sigh of relief.

An Aquarium in Brooklyn Will Partly Reopen in Spring

The New York Aquarium in Brooklyn, which was closed after flooding caused by the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy in October, will partly reopen in the late spring.

De Blasio Urges NBA to Hold 2015 All-Star Game at Barclays Center, Not MSG

De Blasio, the city’s public advocate and mayoral candidate, has joined a Brooklyn labor union in holding the Madison Square Garden Company executive chairman James Dolan accountable for alleged labor violations they say he committed as CEO of Cablevision.

A Taste of Vegan Brooklyn

Many people do not equate a vegan diet to delicious food – more often, cardboard is the closest descriptive word, but Brooklyn vegans are working hard to change that misconception with new vegan restaurant and bakeries around the borough.