The Brooklyn Ink

African Soccer Rivalry Boils Over in Brooklyn

Rival crowds of Algerians and Egyptians shouted each other down in the streets of Bay Ridge today after Algeria toppled Egypt to make it to the 2010 World Cup.

The Climbers

By Rob Anderson “I’m not crazy,” the woman says in a thick Brooklyn accent. “I am not going up there.” She is speaking to the bottom half of a man–her husband, presumably–who has climbed up [...]

Spooning

By Rob Anderson Cafe Grumpy is almost empty. There are a few customers up front, but the back is a sea of barren, two-seat tables. The only patrons back there–a young man and woman–have skipped [...]

Blogging Unemployment

How one jobless Brooklynite has created a community of “unemployeds” online.

The Life and Death of Army Spec. Kevin O. Hill

The minute Olsen Hill saw the uniforms at his door, he knew. He had served in the military. No words were necessary. His son, Kevin O. Hill, was dead. He was a 23-year-old soldier from Brooklyn deployed in Afghanistan.