Author: Ivana Kottasova (Ivana Kottasova)

By Audrey Yoo, Aliza Moorji, Bilal Lakhani, Tatiana Sanchez and Ivana Kottasová Brooklyn loves blogging. There are as many Brooklyn-based blogs as there are topics to blog about. Food, fashion, events, music, nature, kids, and politics — Brooklyn bloggers have them covered. The Ink looked around to find bloggers who have a voice in Brooklyn. Here...

By Ivana Kottasová Eli Kramer sits on the bench, chewing his gum. His mind is on the field. He squints through the fence against the sun and follows the ball with his eyes. Kramer’s team, the Red Legged Devils, are down by two runs. They are batting. Two outs. Bases loaded. He knows he will...

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors; Next Stop, Dessert By Ivana Kottasová [imagebrowser id=13] Jim Kelly enjoyed his lunch. Creamy potato puree was spread across a shiny square plate. Four cubes of filet mignon were soaked in bordelaise sauce and topped with asparagus tips. Silver cutlery shined. The sauce was dark and delicious. He could...

Late Sunday night President Obama announced that American forces had killed Osama bin Laden in a firefight at his compound in Pakistan. The news came almost 10 years after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Brooklyn, like the rest of the city, lost friends and loved ones on 9/11....

By Ivana Kottasová Orthodox Jews, Russian immigrants and Hispanics live next to each other. Small shops, bodegas and restaurants are open day and night along Ditmas Avenue. This is Kensington, Brooklyn. A small and diverse neighborhood in the middle of the borough. 3,471 miles to the East is another Kensington. It’s a high-income neighborhood, the...

Borough Hall’s Brooklyn flag flew half mast yesterday to commemorate two Brooklyn based photographs killed in Libya on Wednesday. Chris Hondros, Getty Images’ photographer, and Tim Hetherington, a 2010 Oscar nominee for his Afghanistan documentary Restrepo, were killed in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata. Read more about Hondoros in Columbia Journalism Review Read more...

By Ivana Kottasová The Census 2010 data are out. How did Brooklyn change in the past decade? More populous. And more crowded. Kings County remains the most populated area in New York State. Some 2,504,700 people live in the borough — 1.6 percent or 39,374 people more than 10 years ago. One hundred years ago...

By Ivana Kottasová The good news is, there are jobs in Brooklyn. The bad news is, not everyone can get them. The economic crisis in the borough is not over. And for some it won’t be for a long time. The GDP and stock market indexes may be rising. But it is clear that Brooklyn’s...

By Ivana Kottasová Downtown Manhattan Heliport now operates all tourist flights in New York City. What does it sound like to live across the river? Watch the video to find out.

By Ivana Kottasová It’s just an ordinary house. Three floors. White wooden walls. Nine bedrooms and three bathrooms. Small front yard. Boarded windows. 1136 Bushwick Avenue, right in between Madison Street and Putman Avenue. There is a church across the street and a shop on the corner. A subway stop is three blocks away. It’s...