The Brooklyn Ink

Day Care: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods

Little Sun People Too, a publicly funded pre-K early education and day care center, is nestled between two storefronts in an industrial block that breaks up the brownstone landscape of residential Bedford-Stuyvesant. The center, which [...]

A Job Grows in Brooklyn: How One Employer Decided to Hire

  While the total number of jobs in New York City declined by 0.5 percent between 2000 and 2010, Brooklyn added more than 50,000 jobs in that period, including more than 9,300 in the food [...]

Resurrection: A Mother in Prison, and Out

  On a sunny but brisk Easter Sunday afternoon in the heart of Clinton Hill, Reverend Clinton Miller, pastor of the Brown Memorial Baptist church, preached a powerful message. “Every day we get up should [...]

A Positive Woman With Triple Negative Cancer

In New York City and nationally, white women get breast cancer more frequently, but black women die of it at a higher rate. A likely reason is that triple negative breast cancers, which are are typically more aggressive and difficult to treat, are more prevalent in African-American women.

From The Stage to the Kitchen: The Struggle of an Unemployed Father

                          In a brownstone building in Brooklyn Lafayette, former dancer Bernard McClain, remote in hand, sways back in forth to a faded 20-year-old [...]

Something Fishy Around the Corner [VIDEO]

Nino, a 68-year-old fishmonger, has been selling his fresh catches off a tabletop on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Grove Street in Bushwick for the past 15 years. But he doesn’t call it a business — to him, it’s simply a “hobby.”

Trash Bashing at the Audubon Center

Environmental educators and musicians Nathan Heatherington and Martin Urbach celebrate the Audubon Center’s 10th anniversary– and earth day at the same time — by performing with recycled instruments at the nature center in Prospect Park. [...]

Brownsville Fondly Remembers ‘Jocko’ Jackson

    Greg “Jocko” Jackson, who died of an apparent heart attack earlier this week, was a towering figure in Brownsville and not just because of his stature.   The 6-foot-tall former basketball player, who managed [...]

A Park Slope Bar: In The Shadow Of The Nets Arena

When the basketball season starts, the new Nets arena is expected to draw thousands of sports spectators to Park Slope and alter the dynamic of many of the neighborhood spots, like O’Connor’s on 5th Avenue.

Brooklyn College Students Protest Tuition Hikes

Nearly 100 students protested scheduled tuition hikes at City University of New York’s Brooklyn College on May 2 outside of President Karen Gould’s office on the second floor of Boylan Hall, according to student activists. [...]