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Staten Island: Toward a New Normal
Storms and politics aside, the borough is changing. Michael Grimm, Congressman for Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) When you walk around in Staten Island in normal times,...
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Sheepshead Bay Gets Boost with Volunteer Cleanup
Volunteers offered a helping hand this weekend as part of an event organized by Cleanup Sheepsheadbay Brooklyn to assist local homeowners and businesses with clearing through the wreckage brought by...
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Salvaging Storm and Fire Ravaged Rockaway
In the Far Rockaways, these steps led to a front porch before the storm hit New York on Monday. Photo by Tabitha Peyton Wood Near the intersection of 130th Street & Newport Avenue in the Far...
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Photo: Sandy Reclaims the Jersey Shore
Photo Slideshow The New Jersey coastline is a vacant testament to the power of mother nature. One week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the beachfront towns of Asbury Park, Avon and Belmar are...
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Hoboken After Sandy: “This One We Couldn’t Beat”
The Brooklyn Ink went to Hoboken, NJ, on Sunday, to see how the city is doing one week after Hurricane Sandy hit the East coast. SimpleViewer requires JavaScript and the Flash Player. Get Flash.
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13 Counties That May Decide The Presidential Election
Graphic credit: AP For more on The Brooklyn Ink’s live ongoing coverage of the swing states, click here. The outcome of today’s heated presidential contest will likely come down to the votes cast in...
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LIVE BLOG: Election Day in the Swing Counties
We took a look into the “13 Counties That May Decide The Presidential Election” to show who these voters are, demographically. Follow here all day long for live coverage and aggregation on the ground...
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Double or Nothing: Obama Wins
Photo Credit: AP According to CNN, MSNBC, and FoxNews, Obama is predicted to win the 2012 presidential election. He is projected to have a wide sweep of the electoral vote but a very tight margin in...
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The Morning After…And The Night Before
8:25 A.M. on November 7th, 2012 at Atlantic Ave. and Flatbush Ave. The morning after the election, Brooklyn is grey and cold. The streets have become wind tunnels and a woman waiting at the bus stop...
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Staten Island Still Sifting Through the Rubble
SimpleViewer requires JavaScript and the Flash Player. Get Flash. The volunteers had commandeered a football field. Now a woman named Lisa was telling a group of them where to go. She was small,...
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Paying for Gas with Plastic is No Longer a Price Mystery
City regulation will soon require gas stations to explain their cash and credit card prices on street signs. Big Apple’s drivers might soon see a new element on gas stations’ road signs: information...
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Autistic Children Feel Brunt Of Bus Strike
Lisa Quinones-Fontanez and her 7-year-old autistic son, Norrin. Buses, trains, cabs and cars, a 22-mile commute, and six hours in a school supply room. That was a recent Wednesday for Lisa...
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Brooklyn Remembers Ed Koch
Vincent Visceqlia said that he admired Koch because the former mayor always spoke his mind. The first day of February, a Friday, seemed like every other day as workers rushed to board trains and...
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How’s New York Doing? City Mourns One of Its Most Colorful Mayors
Former mayor Ed Koch. He was 88. By 9 a.m. Friday it had sunk in; Wikipedia had it. Ed Koch, the brashly quintessential New Yorker, World War II veteran, United States Congressman and Mayor of New York...
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Fighting to Keep Two Brooklyn Hospitals Alive
Community members and nurses rally outside Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s New York City office Thursday, calling for the Governor to preserve Brooklyn’s Interfaith and LICH hospitals. Photo: Bryan...
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Parents Want Boy Scouts Gay-Ban Lifted
Lara Dicus, who is in favor of the Boy Scouts of America lifting the gay-ban, is pictured with her son Charlie after Thursday’s meeting. (Photo: Cori Capik) Giggles echoed through the staircase of...
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The Legacy of Mr. “How’m I Doing?” [Video]
Edward I. Koch, Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989, passed away early Friday as a result of congestive heart failure. Koch was a New York icon, a personality unforgettable even to those who...
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Space for Entrepreneurs in Dumbo Is in High Demand
With an increasing number of young entrepreneurs scared off by Manhattan’s high rents, North Brooklyn has become a hub for growing firms. But as more and more tech firms move in, space is growing...
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Tenants Struggle, Living in the City’s ‘Worst Building’
The peeling living room floor used to be covered in rugs, the TV was between the two windows on the other side of the room and pictures of the family used to hang on the walls. But, after being rained...
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FEMA: Gravesend A Flood Zone; Many Residents Unaware
New FEMA advisory maps have designated new neighborhoods in South Brooklyn as flood zones including Gravesend. Source: FEMA Alfonso Apuzzo stood on the porch of his Gravesend house and pointed to a...
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