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The race for mayor: What Brooklyn wants 24 Aug 2013 | 02:42 am
New York City Democratic mayoral candidates Blasio participate in the first primary debate for New York City mayor in the WABC/Channel 7 studios on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 in New York, N.Y. From left a...
Democratic Candidate Sal Albanese On What He Would Bring To the Table As Mayor 2 Jul 2013 | 01:10 am
Democratic mayoral candidate Sal Albanese represented the 43rd District in the City Council from 1982 to 1997.(Photo courtesy of Albanese’s Mayoral Campaign 2013) The Brooklyn Ink sent the same set o...
From Brooklyn to the Bakken: New York Real Estate Developer Riding North Dakota Oil Wave 19 May 2013 | 12:20 am
One Brooklyn real estate developer is foregoing the New York market to ride an oil-fueled economic boom in North Dakota.
[VIDEO] Expression through Dance 18 May 2013 | 02:11 am
After parents kept coming in to ask whether the Mark Morris Dance Center in Fort Greene had classes for their children with special needs, the dance school decided to create a class to meet demand. Co...
Postcard from a Playground 18 May 2013 | 12:15 am
It’s a Friday morning at the Jackie Robinson Playground on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed-Stuy. A young man plays basketball in one of the courts. An older man reads his newspaper on a table [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: Growing Up in Brooklyn 18 May 2013 | 12:13 am
More than 280,000 children live in Brooklyn. Every single one of them has a story to tell. Reporters from the Brooklyn Ink spent a month scouring the borough for these stories, here’s what they found:
[VIDEO] The Gamelatron Project 17 May 2013 | 11:02 pm
In his studio in Dumbo, Aaron Tyler Kuffner creates a robotic ensemble of traditional Indonesian Gamelan instruments.
[VIDEO] Music From Guns, Mannequins and Snow Shovels, Oh My 17 May 2013 | 03:30 pm
He made a guitar from a toothbrush, machine gun and chandelier. He built a piano that creates music by combining sound from various radiostations. Ken Butler is a artist and a musician from Greenpoint...
[VIDEO] Boxer’s Father Void Filled By Coach 17 May 2013 | 10:53 am
Jude Franklin, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, lost his father when he was 11 years old. Years later, Jude followed his father's legacy of boxing by practicing the sport himself. The 18-year-old boxer met his ...
[VIDEO] Brooklyn Public School Shuts Down for Good 17 May 2013 | 07:05 am
Rafael Codero, a public middle school in Cypress Hill, Brooklyn, is one of 22 public schools in New York City to be phased out due to it’s weak performance. By 2015, the last students will [...]
