The Brooklyn Ink

Congested Brooklyn Thoroughfare to Undergo Development

If all plans are finalized by the borough president, one of Brooklyn’s major thoroughfares will become unrecognizable in the coming years as it evolves from an accident-prone access road to a pedestrian-friendly commercial district. A [...]

Brooklyn Woman Builds Livable Tree House

Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Alexandra Meyn is living out everyone’s childhood dream of living in a tree house, The New York Times reports. Unable to find a job upon graduating from the Pratt Institute in May, the 33-year-old decided [...]

Worker Dies in Brighton Beach Building Collapse

One of the five injured workers in yesterday’s building collapse has died. Three of the other workers are in stable condition at Lutheran Medical Center and a fourth declined treatment. A preliminary view of the 5-story apartment’s [...]

Community Eagerly Awaits Opportunities New Shopping Center Will Provide

After years of debate and final approval by the City Council two weeks ago, the first tentative signs emerge of the construction of BJs Wholesale Club on the Bensonhurst waterfront. Hazardous material signs and rat [...]

European Green Homes Take Root in Park Slope

By Léa Khayata When Justin Stewart bought a brownstone to renovate in Park Slope last year, he wanted to see how close to zero energy consumption he could get. “The question was, how do we [...]

Biggest Number of Delayed Construction Projects are in Brooklyn

Reuters reports that close to 700 construction projects in New York City have been held up since October, and nearly half are found in Brooklyn.  The New York Building Congress suggests that construction of these [...]

Road Work Ahead for DUMBO

Construction has begun on street and bridge renovations that will ultimately see the Brooklyn Bridge repainted and resurfaced, while the Manhattan Bridge receives new suspension cables. The road work to support bridge construction will be [...]