The Brooklyn Ink

Commuter Vans Defy Rules for Transit-Needy Brooklyn

Weekday mornings Osmond Thorne takes commuters and children to school, but he is not driving a bus or subway train. He is behind the wheel of a 15-person commuter van. The vans are a cheap [...]

Customers Queue for Brooklyn Pies

Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a renowned pie shop in the Park Slope/Gowanus section of Brooklyn.  Some of their top-shelf offerings include pies made with salted caramel apple, bittersweet chocolate pecan, bourbon sweet potato and honeyed pumpkin, [...]

Rebuilding Haiti, One Umbrella at a Time

By Sanya Khetani Bad weather puts Catherine Charlot in a good mood. Armed with her shopping cart, Charlot is a familiar sight in Gowanus and Park Slope after a storm hits, scanning the streets and [...]

The BQE Viewed as Backward “Progress”

By Alex Gecan A block away from the trench in which the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway runs confluent with Hicks Street, an old lady sat in the shade of her childhood home and remembered

Whole Foods Site in Gowanus Hits Setback

The Whole Foods site in Gowanus has hit yet another snag as the city issued two stop work orders to the long-delayed project. The environmentally toxic site at 214 3rd St. was cited on April [...]

How Much Power Does A Community Board Have?

Earlier this morning, we told you that Community Board 6, which has jurisdiction in Gowanus, rejected the request from the Summit Academy Charter School to relocate to a site in the neighborhood. The vote was [...]

Video – One Gowanus: Three Voices

Three Brooklyn residents weigh in on the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to place the Gowanus Canal on the Superfund site list.

Competing Easier than Staying Downtown

Sid’s Hardware has decided life between two big box hardware stories is easier than life in downtown Brooklyn.

Gowanus Decision: Winners and Losers

By Lenore Cho and Sudip P. Mukherjee The federal Environmental Protection Agency put the Gowanus Canal on its list of Superfund sites on Tuesday. The 1.8-mile canal in the midst of Brooklyn has been contaminated [...]

Animal Mounters: Not Your Usual Crowd

Brooklyn Adventures in Taxidermy. A Sunday night in the Gowanus Bell House.