The Brooklyn Ink

The Little Street That Could

By Idil Abshir Cortelyou Road feels so self-contained that at times it resembles a small town. Like a residential Russian doll, Cortelyou Road has become a neighborhood within the broader neighborhood of Flatbush. A seven-block [...]

Extreme Dance Action in Brooklyn

By Ceylan Yeginsu and Idil Abshir What if human flying wasn’t as impossible as it sounded? For a group based in Williamsburg it’s a daily reality. At S.L.A.M—the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics— Elizabeth Streb, [...]

Brooklyn Morning – Food Cart Woes at Atlantic-Pacific

by Idil Abshir After Thanksgiving people often feel rejuvenated, ready to power through to Christmas. For food cart vendors however, the days after the turkey and dressing, cranberry and pies, signal one thing: bad business. [...]

Growing Up Ain’t Cheap

Throughout the Northeast, the average cost of raising a child to the age of 17 jumped from $149,700 to $191,490 (in two-parent households earning less than $56,000 per year) between 2005 and 2009. The good [...]

The Phone Whisperer

By Idil Abshir Rob Pettit is probably the only person in the world who owns five thousand dead cell phones, and for him, they work just fine. Pettit, a Ditmas Park resident, is an artist [...]