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April 30, 2010April 30, 2010Brooklyn Life
Old Park Slope Meets New Park Slope
Crazy children bring both sides of the neighborhood together.
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April 30, 2010May 14, 2010Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn’s Main Street Comes To Wall Street
Thousands of workers and community activists marched to Wall Street on Thursday, bringing Main Street’s anger with bank bailouts to the doorstep of the country’s financial industry.
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April 28, 2010May 24, 2010Brooklyn Life, Politics
Tea Party Brewing In Brooklyn
By Laura Kusisto and Jack Mirkinson The Tea Party movement has come to Brooklyn, courtesy of an activist from Manhattan. John Press is an author with a doctorate in history from New York University, who was fed up with the excesses of the Bush and especially the Obama administrations and had begun going to Tea...
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April 7, 2010April 16, 2010Politics
Brooklyn Legislators Fight Paterson, But Brace For Budget Cuts
Brooklyn legislators continue to push back against Gov. David Paterson’s proposed budget, but they know cuts are coming.
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April 2, 2010April 2, 2010Live Wire
The Ink Breaks Down Brooklyn’s Economy, Number By Number
Today, the national economy added 162,000 jobs, a sign that the economy is potentially creeping out of crisis mode. Naturally, we wanted to look at the economic situation in Brooklyn. Thus, we have been working diligently all day to provide you with a comprehensive, suprising, shocking, exhaustive—well, come up with an adjective and our patented,...
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April 2, 2010April 23, 2010Brooklyn Life
The Brooklyn Inkonomic Report
The ultimate look at the Brooklyn economy, courtesy of the whole Ink team.
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March 12, 2010March 12, 2010Live Wire
Bank Robbery In Dumbo
The NYPD is reporting a bank robbery at the Sovereign Bank on Washington St. Dumbo. The robbery occurred last week, but the police are just now releasing information what happened. On March 4th, the robber, described as a man in his 30’s with a goatee and a dark jacket, went into the bank and passed...
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March 12, 2010March 12, 2010Live Wire
New York Times Catches Ink Scooping It
Earlier this morning, we tweeted about a story the New York Times ran on its august City Room blog about people auditioning for a show called “Brighton Beach,” billed as a sort of Russian version of “Jersey Shore.” Why did we inform you about the Times story? Only because the Ink had run its own...
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March 12, 2010March 12, 2010Live Wire
New Jersey Mourns Loss Of Nets and Pines For Replacement
Lost in all of the hubub about Atlantic Yards is the question of who or what will fill the sporting void left in New Jersey by the Nets’ migration to Brooklyn. Well, the Bergen Record has a few suggestions. The Record claims not to really care that the Nets are going, but the slightly hurt...