The Brooklyn Ink

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.

At CMJ—Brooklyn, But More So

For one week in October, the CMJ Music Marathon takes over Williamsburg and Greenpoint with hundreds of bands looking for a break, giving music lovers in Brooklyn even more options than they already have.

In Bushwick, a Darkroom Develops

In the basement of a modern apartment building set among Bushwick’s industrial buildings and new restaurants, there’s a row of nondescript storage units. Lucia Rollow, a recent college graduate, recently purchased one, but she’s not storing winter clothes or old yearbooks in there. Inside her unit she’s set up the Bushwick Community Darkroom.

Michael Moore occupies BookCourt

Michael Moore has spent the last three weeks at Occupy Wall Street, but it was a Brooklyn bookstore he occupied Friday night. The activist filmmaker came to BookCourt, one of the oldest bookshops of the [...]

Praise for the Good Book (Store)

  It was hard to find a seat at the Old First Church on the corner of Carroll Street and Seventh Avenue last Saturday afternoon. People filled the benches, jealously guarding places for their latecomer friends. A [...]

VIDEO: Brooklyn’s Urban Explorers

They sneak into Brooklyn’s subway tunnels, they climb bridges, they wander in decaying hospitals and factories. Shane Perez and Miru Kim are urban explorers. For art and for sheer pleasure, they roam trough the borough’s [...]