Are you sick of sorting through the Twitter noise? We live-tweeted Brooklyn’s take on the Vice Presidential debates. Starting at 9pm, Brooklyn Ink reporters were stationed at viewing parties across the borough, thumbs hovering over their iPhones to tweet reactions. Below is their real-time coverage of the commentary, cheers and ironic mockery that ensued. http://storify.com/marietelling24/the-vp-debate-in-brooklyn
Author: Brooklyn Ink Staff (Brooklyn Ink Staff)
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October 10, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Tony winner Ebersole is coming to Brooklyn
Two-time Tony winner Christine Ebersole, who is currently on TBS’s “Sullivan and Son” as Carol, is coming to Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Community College on October 13. Read more at Playbill.com
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October 10, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
New Life for Empire Stores?
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation is proposing turning Empire Stores, the decrepit and neglected former tea warehouse, into a retail and office complex. Read more at The Brooklyn Paper.
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October 10, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
NYPD hunts hate message graffiti vandal
The NYPD released a video today, of the suspect who spray-painted “USA Arab UR Dead” in front of 6817 Third Ave. in Bay Ridge on July 29. Read More at The Daily News
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October 10, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn hospitals face penalty funding cuts
Brooklyn hospitals face Medicare repayment cuts. Preliminary data shows hospitals in Brooklyn scored poorly in quality of care, patient satisfaction and readmission rates and will face penalty funding cuts. Read more at Brooklyn Daily Eagle. More details available at The New York World.
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October 10, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn charter school gets a D
The UFT Charter School in Brooklyn, the nation’s first union-run school opened in 2005, faces danger of being closed due to poor academic performance of students. Read more at: NY1.com and New York Post
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October 10, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Sunset Park waterfront getting make-over
Tidal pools, baseball fields and viewing areas — the Sunset Park waterfront development between 43rd and 51st Streets is under way. Read more on the 22-acre project at: Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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October 10, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn-born boxing champion to duel at Barclays Center
Professional boxing champion Paulie Malignaggi returns to Brooklyn for matches at Barclays Center on Saturday, October 20. Read more at: NY1.com
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October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
TechShop coming to Brooklyn
TechShop, a member-only do-it-yourself shop plans to open a location in Brooklyn. The founder Jim Newton says it’s “like a health club, but instead of exercise equipment, [it] has tools and machines.” Newton has six TechShops across the country. Read more and watch videos at: CNN.com
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October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Cost of absence from a meeting — Deron Williams?
Deron Williams decided to stay with Nets partly because Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks that was offering $75 million to Williams, was absence from a meeting in July. Read more at: NYTimes.com