Month: <span>August 2011</span>

Their firefighter sibling, Stephen, never made it to their family game on Sept. 11, 2001   As much as the Siller brothers loved golf, it was a rare and special day when all four of them could play together. Russ was a college professor, George owned a sporting goods store, Frank sold fur coats, and...

A decade later, Anthony Manero remembers watching the planes destroy the Twin Towers and burying five victims

Ligia Gualpa teaches everything from English to employment rights to cleaning ladies and factory workers in Williamsburg.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) On Sept. 11, 2001, Brooklyn found itself with a front-row seat to Al Qaeda’s attack on the World Trade Center. From graveyards to golf courses, private schools to housing projects, the impact of the tragedy spread throughout our borough. Ten years later, Brooklyn Ink’s writers examine how loss, grief, memory, and recovery...

In 1981, when Derek Pollitt first got the idea for a community garden in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, the plot was nothing more than a wasteland. After two buildings had caught fire and were subsequently knocked down, the land quickly became a dumping ground. In addition to the mountains of bricks, the lot...

Several Adderall dealers lived and sold in the affluent neighborhood of helicopter parents and highly pressured children

Norma Cayetano walked slowly, balancing a steaming plate of food in each of her large, walnut-colored hands. One dish held a soft mound of rice and beans and a juicy slab of oxtail meat; the other was piled high with sweet plantains, macaroni and cheese and potato salad. Cayetano set the plates down on a...

Giraldo is caught — unjustly, he says — by a federal program aimed at serious criminals and security risks

The exhibited works in Crown Heights Gold offer diverse voices to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the riot. The exhibit will be at the Skylight Gallery through October 31.

Ray Rivera, jazz guitarist, singer and songwriter, strolled to the mike at the Brooklyn Marine Island Salt Marsh Nature Center on a hot night this June. The pine box of a park ranger station, occupancy 50, was standing room only. Rivera looked sharp in a brown, plaid suit. He had no set list. He sized...