Author: Cambrey Thomas (Cambrey Thomas)

By Cambrey Thomas People come to the Department of Motor Vehicles to wait. On a recent afternoon at the department’s downtown Brooklyn offices at the Atlantic Avenue shopping center — next to National Vision Center, and on the same floor as Marshall’s and Target – people were still arriving at 2:30 PM to take numbers...

Thursday the Brooklyn City Council voted to co-name Jefferson Avenue, between Tompkins and Throop avenues, after the late Hon. Bertram L. Baker, who represented Bedford-Stuyvesant in the New York State Assembly for 22 years. He was the first black elected official from Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Ink reporter Cambrey Thomas makes Clam Potato Leek Soup, a recipe from The New Brooklyn Cookbook, on Vimeo.

By Cambrey Thomas In the beginning, there was the egg cream. It was fizzy with seltzer and creamy with chocolaty, milky foam. Then there was Junior’s cheesecake — sweet, smooth, rich and served in dense slices on Flatbush Avenue. There were also slice counters with hot pies waiting for a shake of red pepper flakes...

by Cambrey Thomas The early Monday morning post-Black Friday at the Target on Atlantic Avenue was sleepy. The store opened at 8 a.m., but by 10 a.m. things still had not picked up. Half a dozen women stood in line for returns. One complained loudly that the cashier should have looked in the box before...

By Cambrey N Thomas I got off the elevator on the 5th floor at 55 Washington St. in Dumbo and followed the sandwich board signs to the Etsy Labs. A few turns down a winding hallway later and I was signing in for “Craft Night: Make a Zombie with Diana Schoenbrun.” Visitors to the labs...

By Cambrey N. Thomas At 10 a.m. on a busy morning the doors of Barneys’ new outpost in downtown Brooklyn opened for the first time and the locals walked by nonchalantly as if its windows were still covered with paper. “Are you from Brooklyn?” asked the greeter at the door who wore red aviator glasses....