The Brooklyn Ink

Five Stories, One Williamsburg

Inside Brooklyn’s Creative Hub, and the Passions it Supports

Soft Porn, Hardening Hearts: A Magazine’s Private Story

Can a softcore erotica magazine survive in an age of digital porn? Danielle Leder, co-founder and owner of Jacques Magazine, hopes the answer is yes.

Goodbye to Aunt Suzie’s: a Pioneer Calls it Quits

No one will go hungry when Aunt Suzie’s restaurant closes on January 1st. French, Thai, Indian, Japanese and Mexican joints dot the blocks of 5th Avenue in Park Slope where Aunt Suzie’s sits. The area wasn’t always a culinary scene, though.

Brooklyn As Muse: Why So Many Writers?

In the beginning there was Walt Whitman’s “Brooklyn Ferry.” Then came Henry Miller’s Williamsburg. The Brooklyn Bridge was Hart Crane’s, the Brooklyn accent Thomas Wolfe’s.   Truman Capote and Paula Fox wrote their version of the [...]

Book Review: “The Deal From Hell”

Tiffany Ap reviews The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers, by James O’Shea  

Brooklyn Museum Director Featured In Staten Island

Retaliation has come against the Brooklyn Museum director in the form of a picture. Arnold Lehman, who allowed a picture of a crucifix to be displayed at the museum earlier this month, now his name [...]

Famous Midwood Pizzeria Closed via Health Violations

Di Fara Pizza, which received a Zagat award for the best pizza in 2011, was closed last week after a city health inspection found a worrisome 67 code violations, according to the New York Daily [...]

The (not so) Little Bookshop that Could

BookCourt is something of a visual aberration for anyone walking down the northern part of Court Street. Sandwiched between a deli, a UPS store and a Starbucks, the bookshop stands out against the background. It’s [...]

Good Grief: In the Zine World, a Place to Mourn

I arrived with a friend at Death by Audio on South 2nd Street to find two women at the entrance asking for a sliding-scale donation. I asked them what lay at the end of the [...]

A Love Letter Returned?

A new mural in Downtown Brooklyn leaves some scratching their heads.