The Brooklyn Ink

[VIDEO] Gentrification’s Casualties: Brooklyn Under the Radar

Gentrification is transforming Brooklyn into the “Next Manhattan”, but for many long-time residents the housing boom sparked by urban renewal has become a nightmare. Produced and Filmed by Michael V’inkin Lee, Sarah Munir, and Vikram [...]

Kony 2012: “Cover the Night” Falls Short

The Brooklyn Lens Webcast 4/13/2012 from The Brooklyn Ink on Vimeo. The Brooklyn Lens special report on KONY 2012: Cover the Night.

The Plot to Seed Bomb Brooklyn

  Some like the below-the-waist, underhand lob. Others use an inconspicuous flick of the wrist – after a couple of furtive glances around – while walking past an empty lot. A few prefer to deliver [...]

The Brooklyn Lens Webcast 3/30/2012

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

Kony 2012: Special Edition Webcast

The Brooklyn Lens tackles the video about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and how it went viral in this week’s webcast for March 9, 2012.

The Brooklyn Lens Webcast 3/2/2012

The Brooklyn Lens webcast for the week of March 2, 2012.

[VIDEO] Artists Trade Time and Talent for Treatment

A new program at the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx provides artists with medical coverage in exchange for their time and talent. Inspired by a similar initiative at Brooklyn’s Woodhull Medical [...]

Burying a Romance? Bring Extra Caskets

Jin Moon (left) and Cathryn Harding (right) spoke about breakups, but with a twist. “Before I experienced my second adolescence in New York City, I grew up a lost child,” Jin Moon said to the [...]

At Life’s End [Video]

All pet owners know that saying good-bye to a beloved animal companion is a painful and difficult process. The Hope Veterinary Clinic in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn helps local and out-of-borough residents come to terms with [...]