The Brooklyn Ink

Is Brooklyn Still a Bargain?

Although Manhattan rents overall are still more expensive, in the last few years more areas of Brooklyn have began to catch up. And more people are choosing Brooklyn for its lifestyle than its rents.

Brooklyn Looks to Slow Zones to Curb Speeding

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) launched a Neighborhood Slow Zone program this fall that reduces speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph and adds safety measures, such as speed bumps, within a select area. The first and currently only existing Slow Zone in the city was created in the Claremont section of the Bronx in late November. Now several neighborhoods in Brooklyn are applying for their own Neighborhood Slow Zones, hoping to make their streets safer.

Brooklyn Church Fire Likely Destroyed Rare Organ

A 92 year-old organ is likely a complete loss after a fire Wednesday night at the Boerum Hill Baptist Temple. The instrument wasn’t in regular use, but had been featured on a number of recent [...]

Brooklyn Parents Hit Hard By Closing Day Cares

When the Administration for Children’s Services said in February that 16 day cares would be closing city-wide, no parents braced more than those in Brooklyn, were 11 of those closing day cares are located. The [...]

Bike Lanes Will Be Extended on Smith and Hoyt

Bicycle lanes along Smith and Hoyt streets in Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill will be extended into Carroll Gardens this spring, allowing cyclists to ride from the Gowanus Canal to the Brooklyn Bridge. A handful [...]