The Brooklyn Ink

Downtown Brooklyn to Be Dubbed Historic

New York City’s Landmark Preservation Commission is planning to designate Downtown Brooklyn a first-ever “Skyscraper Historic District,” reports the New York Post. A public hearing on the proposal will be held December 14.

Construction Company Settles Discrimination Probe Out of Court

Prosecutors in Brooklyn say a construction company agreed to pay $20 million to resolve an investigation that claimed the company falsely reported hiring minority subcontractors on several New York City projects. The Schiavone Construction Company [...]

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. [...]

Quaker School to host 31st Annual Holiday Extravaganza

A school will host their 31st Annual Holiday Extravaganza in two weeks, according to Brooklyn Heights Blog.  Brooklyn Friends School, an independent Quaker school in downtown Brooklyn, will host its winter festival on Saturday, Dec. [...]

Downtown Brooklyn Getting Tourist Friendly

Tourist friendly maps and kiosks will appear in the next few months in Downtown Brooklyn, the New York Post reports. 45 Kiosks in all will be installed as well as 33 directional signs pointing to [...]

Housing in Brooklyn is All About Location

Throughout most of Brooklyn, the housing market has rebounded from the slump that followed the economic collapse of 2008. While the number of new properties being sold in America is currently the lowest in recorded [...]

Brooklyn Gets a Barneys

By Cambrey N. Thomas At 10 a.m. on a busy morning the doors of Barneys’ new outpost in downtown Brooklyn opened for the first time and the locals walked by nonchalantly as if its windows [...]

New medical facility that treats infertility opens in Brooklyn

A new medical center that specializes in treating fertility problems opened at 16 Court St. in Downtown Brooklyn. Reproductive Specialists of New York provides full-service infertility treatment from ovulation induction to in vitro fertilization, according [...]

Berkeley College Adding Brooklyn Location

Berkeley College has signed a lease for property at the Fulton Mall, Brownstoner reports. The business-oriented school offers online programs in addition to over 8,000 students at its seven existing locations in New York and [...]

BK’s Most Dangerous Designer

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