The Brooklyn Ink

Five Stories, One Williamsburg

Inside Brooklyn’s Creative Hub, and the Passions it Supports

Park Slope Reacts to Sexual Assaults

Park Slope residents react to string of sexual attacks.

Occupy the Village of Wall Street

Zuccotti  Park  is not, strictly speaking a park – no rolling green fields but a flat expanse of dark stone. It is, however, something altogether different: an experiment in creating a neighborhood where none existed. Call [...]

The Volunteer: How Tim McKinney helps Prospect Park, and the park helps him

Tim McKinney lifts the black metal trash barrel with an efficiency that belies his thin 63-year-old frame. Placing a clear plastic garbage bag over its opening, McKinney tips the canister over, allowing a stream of [...]

Who was first on Franklin Avenue?

Local Organization and Panamanian Community Clash By Becky Bratu Years ago—some say about 10, others as few as seven—gun-toting drug dealers were among the few who preferred to do business on Franklin Avenue in Crown [...]

Mordechai’s ride

Here in Brooklyn: The Jewish community in Midwood celebrates Purim.

Tough Crowd

By Jack Mirkinson Inspector Peter Simonetti, Commanding Officer for the 71st Precinct, had come to the auditorium of Middle School 61 in Crown Heights to tell the audience at the monthly meeting of Community Board 9 to work with the police and watch out for suspicious activity. A meeting that had contained the usual ragged but pleasant atmosphere quickly turned into something altogether spikier.