The Brooklyn Ink

Day Care: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods

Little Sun People Too, a publicly funded pre-K early education and day care center, is nestled between two storefronts in an industrial block that breaks up the brownstone landscape of residential Bedford-Stuyvesant. The center, which [...]

Trash Bashing at the Audubon Center

Environmental educators and musicians Nathan Heatherington and Martin Urbach celebrate the Audubon Center’s 10th anniversary– and earth day at the same time — by performing with recycled instruments at the nature center in Prospect Park. [...]

Brooklyn College Students Protest Tuition Hikes

Nearly 100 students protested scheduled tuition hikes at City University of New York’s Brooklyn College on May 2 outside of President Karen Gould’s office on the second floor of Boylan Hall, according to student activists. [...]

Brooklyn Has the Most Holocaust Survivors

Brooklyn, according to the Brooklyn Community Foundation, has the most Holocaust survivors of anywhere in the world. And on April 19,2012, they commemorated the Holocaust Remembrance Day (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה) on April 19, 2012. Elihu [...]

Brooklyn Holocaust Survivor Celebrates his 104th Birthday (Plus Audio Slideshow)

  Samuel Schanzer reached a milestone that most don’t: he turned 104 years old on Wednesday, April 18. His storied life required a lot of extra pages. “I have more wrinkles than he does,” his [...]

Girl Power! Project Girl Showcases Young Borough Artists [VIDEO]

Project Girl Performance Collective is a performance ensemble for girls ages 8 to 21 from the five boroughs. Dominique Fishback of Brooklyn has been participating since 2008, when the the non-profit was founded. The group [...]

Buy A T Shirt, Pay for a Book

The mausoleum style gates adorned with golden Egyptian hieroglyphic figures, the Brooklyn Public Library beckon visitors to come inside. The first thing newcomers see is a recently installed security desk—and just beyond on the way [...]

Ice Cream Melts Tempers in Prospect Park

Ice cream, of all things, is heating up tempers in Prospect Heights. Last week, an uproar ignited on a discussion forum for Prospect Heights parents, where mothers complained about pushy ice cream vendors in parks [...]

The Brooklyn Lens Webcast 3/30/2012

The Brooklyn Lens webcast for the week of March 30, 2012.

Stop and Frisk Protests Gain a Celebrity

Gbenga Akinnagbe plays Chris Partlow, one of the drug henchman in HBO’s series the Wire. But in real Brooklyn life, he is worried that the innocent are getting stopped by the police and inspires his fans in his protest actions against Stop and Frisk.