The Brooklyn Ink

Extreme Dance Action in Brooklyn

By Ceylan Yeginsu and Idil Abshir What if human flying wasn’t as impossible as it sounded? For a group based in Williamsburg it’s a daily reality. At S.L.A.M—the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics— Elizabeth Streb, [...]

Williamsburg Activist Takes Issues Global

By Ceylan Yeginsu The pressure of living in an African American community amid the civil rights movement in the 60s pushed Jan Peterson from Harlem to Williamsburg, where she entered what was then an Italian [...]

Growing Up Ain’t Cheap

Throughout the Northeast, the average cost of raising a child to the age of 17 jumped from $149,700 to $191,490 (in two-parent households earning less than $56,000 per year) between 2005 and 2009. The good [...]

Letter From Williamsburg: Winemaking 101

By Ceylan Yeginsu As I turned the corner from Bedford Avenue onto North 8th Street and glimpsed the giant chalk sign that read ‘Brooklyn Winery,’ I started to picture plush ripe grapes and giant wooden [...]