The Brooklyn Ink

The Bedford Avenue Trek

The Brooklyn Ink is kicking off our Bedford Avenue Project today with a walk down the 10.2-mile-long avenue. Ink reporters Vegas Tenold and Joe Deaux are braving the cold to bring you life as it [...]

Brooklyn Morning – Coney Island in Winter

by Vegas Tenold Once the subway had rumbled off, a couple of blocks down Stillwell Avenue there was no sound left and Coney Island was an alien place. For a minute or two there was [...]

80 Years of Meat

By Vegas Tenold Savarese, the last in his family’s line of butchers, barely has time to explain that the shop has been in his family for 80 years, before he ducks into the storage room [...]

Housing in Brooklyn is All About Location

Throughout most of Brooklyn, the housing market has rebounded from the slump that followed the economic collapse of 2008. While the number of new properties being sold in America is currently the lowest in recorded [...]

Brooklyn Mosque Rally Turns Ugly

by Vegas Tenold It was supposed to be a rally about parking. Somehow it turned into praise for Qu’ran burning, declarations of war and enough vitriol to warrant almost 20 police officers. Almost before it [...]