The Brooklyn Ink

The Spirit of Brooklyn in Writing

A quiet escape from the raucous pounding of urban life. A trove of cheap rents and spacious dwellings. A flawed and unpredictable muse. An embattled ground where American life thrives and decays. A creative retreat [...]

Unfixed Tickets: A Day at the Traffic Court

Rayan Nahle leans on a wall outside a courtroom at the Traffic Violations Bureau at Atlantic Center Mall, waiting for her hearing. Unlike others in the room who were missing work altogether to settle their [...]

Local Photographer Captures Red Hook’s Spirit

“I started carrying my camera when I decided I might be able to make some interesting photographs.” Andy Vernon-Jones is a local photographer who captured Red Hook’s spirit in his new book, Here in Red Hook.

From Bay Ridge to Atlantic Avenue: Brooklyn’s Marathon

Take a look at the NYC Marathon … from Brooklyn. Kenyan long-distant runner Geoffrey Mutai set a new course record at the New York City Marathon yesterday, taking only 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds [...]

A Seasonal Egg Cream in Carroll Gardens

In a neighborhood of maple-colored town houses, there is a maple egg cream.  It’s the fall special at the Brooklyn Farmacy, an old-fashioned soda fountain in a refurbished pharmacy in Carroll Gardens.  The waiter behind the counter [...]

November on the Boardwalk

Click. Click. Click. A couple busily snap photographs of the ocean view as seen from the boardwalk at Coney Island. He wears a white jacket and she a black one, jeans and sunglasses. “We should [...]

Will Netflix Fiasco Revive Rental Stores?

Netflix, the online movie rental site, has lost 800,000 subscribers in its most recent quarter. Customers were angered by the company’s new policy, which forces them to have two separate accounts: one for streaming movies [...]

Hooked on Henry, Park Slope Bar Celebrates MLS Playoffs

The man at the corner table strokes his beard nervously. Beside him, another simply sits and stares, eyes locked on the three giant high definition TVs behind the bar. The New York Red Bulls are [...]

The Hatter’s Mad Ball

Top hats, fedoras, bowlers, flannel hats, wool hats, leather hats, and fur-lined hats line the shelves of Goorin Bros. Hat Shop in Park Slope. Antique-looking hatboxes line the store’s perimeter. Relics are tucked between displays [...]

A Sentencing, and a Mother’s Goodbye

Mwata Alcindor’s mom arrived in court at 10 a.m. even though her son was not scheduled to be sentenced until 11a.m. She took a seat in the second to last row. Her face showed no emotion. [...]