The Brooklyn Ink

A Local Look for Brooklyn Fashion Designers

By Faaria Kherani Juhea Kim, Fort Greene designer of the new fashion line LIBER New York, makes her trip from Brooklyn to New York City’s Garment District. Her list of stops includes fabric stores, trim [...]

New Bakeries and Cafés in Bed Stuy Face Uncertain Prospects

By La Toya Tooles The outside of Ms. Dahlia’s Café on the 440th block of Norstrand Ave in Brooklyn is a sign of changing times. There are wicker and metal benches nestled in the nook [...]

Local Community Left Out of Biotech Center Plans

By Faaria Kherani Sunset Park’s Brooklyn Army Terminal, the embarkation point for 3 million soldiers and massive, ocean-going vessels in years past, is carving out a future as the centerpiece of Brooklyn’s commercial biotechnology boom. [...]

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 [...]

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.