The Brooklyn Ink

The Brooklyn Lens Webcast 3/30/2012

The Brooklyn Lens webcast for the week of March 30, 2012.

[VIDEO] Wanted: Outdated Gizmos to Recycle

The Lower East Side Ecology Center recently opened an e-warehouse in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn where residents and small businesses can recycle their electronics. This is the first permanent drop off location for the [...]

Brooklynites Cautious As Subway Theft Rises

As if busy New Yorkers didn’t have enough to worry about this holiday season, an old nuisance is growing alarmingly commonplace. Opportunistic thieves are snatching purses and other items in the subway with increased frequency, [...]

Video – Hack Attack in Brooklyn

NYC Resistor is a shared space in Brooklyn where a group of 'hackers' take apart electronics and put them together again to create a variety of weird and wonderful inventions. These self-proclaimed 'nerds' aren't going to break into your Facebook account, though; this generation of 'hackers' does things differently. Van Tieu meets them.