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Paying Up: Why Landlords Get Away With Mounds of Housing Violations
Flatbush Gardens, where landlord David Bistricer has over 8,000 outstanding housing code violations. (Richard Nieva/The Brooklyn Ink) By Richard Nieva John Gillick is engaged to be married. When asked...
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The Little Street That Could
Cortelyou Road circa 1910/Courtesy of Ronald Schweiger, Brooklyn Borough Historian By Idil Abshir Cortelyou Road feels so self-contained that at times it resembles a small town. Like a residential...
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A Rising Tide of Sephardic Jews Brings Change to the Yeshivah of Flatbush
The student body at the Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn, N.Y. has shifted from an Ashkenazic to Sephardic majority. (Photo: Alexandra Hootnick/The Brooklyn Ink) As Passover approached 25 years ago,...
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Dispute Over Flatbush Vacant Lot Shrouded in Legal Ambiguity
The boarded-up 480 Stratford Road among its Victorian neighbors. The house that originally stood on the property was demolished in 2006. Chris Haire/BI With children on Big Wheels crushing piles of...
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Competing Arguments Made in Flatbush Stabbing Trial
Photo by Esteban Illades/The Brooklyn Ink Competing arguments were furious today as the jury prepared to deliberate the verdict for a Florida man accused of brutally stabbing his victim to death at a...
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Overcrowding in Elementary Schools Becoming a Greater Concern in Brooklyn
At the end of the school day, gaggles of excited students at P.S 139 burst out the doors, some to frolic in the playground, while others join waiting parents to walk home, usually hand-in-hand. P.S....
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Atheist Billboard Enrages Jewish Community
Rabbi Liberow of Chabad Flatbush calls the billboard "disgusting." (Vikram Patel/The Brooklyn Ink) On the evening of March 7, the Jewish community in Brooklyn celebrated the start of Purim, a holiday...
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Brooklyn Provides the Set for Two Generations of Filmmakers
In the trailer for Dan Sallitt’s “The Unspeakable Act,” a 17-year-old girl named Jackie bikes home. Once there, she confronts her brother about his feelings for another girl and reveals her own...
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Want to Know the Real Brooklyn? Take a Tour
On last Friday’s tour, Jeffrey Stirewalt took his group to Flatbush, where they visited Erasmus High School, Loews’ Kings Theater, and a Dutch Reformed Church. To most tourists, New York City...
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Navigating Two Different Cultures: A Pakistani Immigrant Girl’s Struggles
Fifteen-year-old Amira Ashfaq immigrated to the United States in 2006. (Aisha Asif/The Brooklyn Ink) A couple of years ago, Amira Ashfaq got a dog. Her parents were angry, but not just because the dog...
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Hard Day at a Murder Trial: a Family Hears the Witnesses
Yonette Newton and Yootha Pierre, mother and aunt of Natisha Barrow, still live in the Flatbush building where Barrow was murdered in 2011. Newton has been caring for her granddaughter, Aaliyah, since...
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Death knell for Flatbush’s haunted house?
111 Clarkson Avenue in Flatbush. Built in 1902, the house could now be set for demolition. Photo: Sven Carlsson A century after it was built to celebrate an immigrant’s achieving his American dream,...
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How Brooklyn Measures the Economy
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will post the national employment figures for October, including the number of jobs created and the unemployment rate. These numbers—delayed by the recent...
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Flatbush: An Albanian Mosque Struggles With its Heritage
The three-story brick building on the corner of Albemarle and Rugby in Flatbush is so shrouded by two scarlet oaks that they cast a permanent shadow on much of the exterior. Long windowpanes bear a...
View ArticleWas More Police the Answer to J’Ouvert’s History of Deadly Violence?
Four men were shot and one was killed during last month’s West Indian Day celebrations in Brooklyn. In spite of the violence, the NYPD is calling its reimagined strategy for New York’s largest...
View ArticleA Month Before Vote, Mathieu Eugene is Confident of Re-Election
At the office of Council Member Mathieu Eugene, it’s business as usual. Flatbush locals are seated inside the waiting area, listening for their name to be called, and hopefully for an issue to be...
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