The Brooklyn Ink

Scholars: What Atlantic Yards Could Mean

By Mustafa Mehdi Vural
Atlantic Yards will change Brooklyn. But there is no unanimity among urban historians and scholars on what this change will mean for the borough.
For the last six years, Atlantic Yards has been a Brooklyn tale of money, power and politics. It has been the subject of endless debate, court battles and public [...]

Hundreds protest Atlantic Yards

Van Tieu and Yepoka Yeebo
Angry residents gathered at Barclays Center outside  the Atlantic Yards Project to protest as Governor David Paterson and other officials broke ground on the new home of the New Jersey Nets.

Waiting to remember “Notorious B.I.G.”

By Althea A. Fung
Traffic on Fulton Street near Tompkins Avenue slowed to a crawl last night. Two police officers attempted to direct the heavy   traffic to   no avail, as cars blasting rap music  – the Notorious B.I.G.’s  “Juicy and “One More Chance – drove as slowly as they  wanted. The drivers stuck their heads out their windows to look at the people trying to   enter the Lab Banquet Hall, [...]

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 [...]

Russian-Americans vie for reality show

By Mary Plummer
Beneath a booming dance floor, accessible only by traipsing down a steep, plywood staircase, was a narrow rectangular room holding the chance at something special for a few lucky Russian-Americans: fame.
It was 11 p.m. and inside the room were Elina Miller, Alina Dizik and Christine Mahin. The trio are co-creators of Brighton Beach, [...]