The Brooklyn Ink

Tea Time with Mikhail Prokhorov

(Photo credit: Matt Rodigheri)

By Vinnie Rotondaro
On Wednesday I met with Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, the recently minted owner of the New Jersey Nets, at the Clover Club, a bar in Carroll Gardens. Prokhorov is the first-ever foreign owner of an NBA team. He never drinks. “Maybe a glass of red wine sometimes,” he said, [...]

Moshe Piller: How a New York Landlord Works the System

A team of six reporters spent four months investigating the New York housing system through the prism of one landlord, his buildings and his tenants in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Read on for our findings.

Brooklyn Vendors Praise Vendor Hero In Times Square Bomb Plot

With long hours outside, street vendors are provided with an ample opportunity to observe their surroundings and notice if anything is askew. Brooklyn’s street vendors speak out following the foiled Times Square bomb plot.

Gorilla Returns; Park Slope Gets Caffeinated

Customers braved the rainy weather to get a cup of joe from reopened Gorilla Coffee in Park Slope. Same brew, new staff.

VIDEO – Hailing a Cab Just Got a Little Easier

A new iPhone application eases the pain of finding a cab in Brooklyn. CabSense was created using the GPS data from 90 million cab rides to come up with a map that plots the most popular historical pickup and drop-off points. By Mary Plummer

Video – Custom Rides in Red Hook – Keino’s Cycles

Keino Sasaki describes his journey through New York City, from working with legendary bike builder Indian Larry in SoHo, to opening his own custom motorcycle garage on Union Street.

Video – Behind the Brine

Before Guss’ Pickles moved to Borough Park and became Ess-a-Pickle, Pat Fairchild took TheBrooklynInk.com on a briny odyssey from hot peppers to sauerkraut, and explained how a cucumber becomes a pickle.

Video – Victim’s Mother Mourns Neighborhood

By Joseph Alexiou
One day after 10-year-old Dalila Gray was shot in the hand steps away from her home at 63 Stuyvesant Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, her mother Dalila Ramirez wants to leave the neighborhood she has called home for 29 years.
“It’s gonna be hard to leave,” said Ramirez, 32. “I was 3 years old when my [...]

Gowanus: The Background

by Matthew Huisman
The Environmental Protection Agency now has the legal authority to go after The City of New York and eight other polluters who for decades contributed to contamination of the Gowanus Canal. The EPA was granted the power after labeling the 1.8-mile canal that divides Red Hook and South Brooklyn from Park Slope a [...]

Gowanus Decision: Winners and Losers

By Lenore Cho and Sudip P. Mukherjee
The federal Environmental Protection Agency put the Gowanus Canal on its list of Superfund sites on Tuesday. The 1.8-mile canal in the midst of Brooklyn has been contaminated by heavy industry over the last century. Now the feds are stepping in for the big clean-up. The decision is controversial [...]