The Brooklyn Ink

From Happy New Year to Good Yoga

  Flannery Foster and Ray Gonzales, co-founders of Good Yoga.  If a pair of strangers had not met on New Years Eve of 2009, Good Yoga would not exist in Greenpoint. That night, Flannery Foster, [...]

Polish Flavor Lingers in Greenpoint Despite Changing Ethnic Demographics

Ana Dricdzic doesn’t want her neighborhood to change. The owner of Staropolski Meat Market & Deli, located on Manhattan Avenue — Greenpoint’s main commercial strip — Dricdzic holds forth on the ethnic character of her [...]

Panera Bread coming to Borough Hall

The nation-wide food chain Panera Bread is opening it’s first Brooklyn restaurant in Borough Hall. Panera Bread signed a 15-year lease for 4,500 square feet at 345 Adams St. The chain’s neighbors will include a [...]

Communal Residents Open B&B in Downtown Brooklyn

By Caitlin Kasunich Since July 2009, the second floor of 136 Lawrence St. in Downtown Brooklyn has served as a collective house for many young people who move in and out of New York City. [...]

Tanning Salons Wrestle with Tax

by Manuel Rueda This summer, the federal government imposed a 10 percent sales tax on indoor tanning that angered salon owners and faithful clients like Snooki from The Jersey Shore. “I don’t go tanning anymore [...]

Sunset Park Joins Brooklyn’s Craft Liquor Industry with Gin Distillery

By Camilo Smith Somewhere in the middle distance between the Gowanus Expressway and the polluted Gowanus Bay lies a small factory where a young man carefully tastes a batch of clear white liquid dripping from [...]

Brooklyn Has Largest Job Growth in the City

Brooklyn was named the city with the fourth largest gains in employment, said a new report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment grew 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010.  A lot [...]

Crown Heights Residents Reject Pawn Shop

By Alexandra Alper The hit reality TV series, “Pawn Stars,” opens with images of an antique watch, a sword, and a dramatic shot of three men in black. The show, which premiered last year on [...]

BK’s Most Dangerous Designer

Designer Karen Patwa adds a little danger to the fashion scene in Boerum Hill.

Ukulele Sales Soar in Brooklyn

Ukulele sales in Brooklyn are on the rise: A seller in Flatbush says his numbers are up 80 percent from last year.