The Brooklyn Ink

Brooklyn Has the Most Holocaust Survivors

Brooklyn, according to the Brooklyn Community Foundation, has the most Holocaust survivors of anywhere in the world. And on April 19,2012, they commemorated the Holocaust Remembrance Day (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה) on April 19, 2012. Elihu [...]

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 [...]

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.

Hundreds Rally Against CUNY Tuition Hike

As the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees voted Monday to raise tuition, students and professors took to the streets in protest.  For nearly four hours, protesters rallied outside Baruch College, marched [...]

Park Slope Boasts Booming Real Estate Market

Park Slope houses evoke the urban landscape of 1950s Brooklyn, but boast a modern-day price tag.

Parents and Teachers Don’t See Eye-to-Eye on Merits of Language Mixing

“Maria quiere coffee after class, pero I have to study.” These ten simple words meaning “Maria wants coffee after class, but I have to study” sound harmless, but are highly contentious when uttered by a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]