The Brooklyn Ink

[VIDEO] Gentrification’s Casualties: Brooklyn Under the Radar

Gentrification is transforming Brooklyn into the “Next Manhattan”, but for many long-time residents the housing boom sparked by urban renewal has become a nightmare. Produced and Filmed by Michael V’inkin Lee, Sarah Munir, and Vikram [...]

Slew of Park Slope Restaurants Shuttered Due to Economic Slump

Various Park Slope institutions crumbling under the weight of fiscal woes have closed in the last month, potentially altering the neighborhood landscape.

Paying Up: Why Landlords Get Away With Mounds of Housing Violations

By Richard Nieva John Gillick is engaged to be married. When asked if he would stay at his apartment in the Flatbush Gardens complex in East Flatbush after the big July wedding, his initial response [...]