Author: Shane Hunt (Shane Hunt)

The worst thing about reading a book about Sarah Palin is reading a book about Sarah Palin. In the case of a public figure defined in large part by her relationship with (and attitude toward) the media, the reader of her biography cannot escape a particularly strong sense of complicity in the circus that has...

22-year-old Kyle Decoteau was shot and killed in Bed-Stuy in July this year. His death and its aftermath, which saw a wave of anti-crime sentiment ripple through the neighborhood, shows that Bed-Stuy, though safer than in the past, is still plagued by crime; and its residents are fed up with the plague.

A high sales volume and rising prices have made the neighborhood a stronghold in northern Brooklyn’s real estate market, while foreclosure rates well above New York City and Brooklyn averages continue to limit progress.

The Bedford-Stuyvesant Family Health Center, on Fulton Street, offers family planning services.

Protesters and union organizers marched from Manhattan’s financial district to Foley Square yesterday as part of ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. (Photo: Shane Hunt / The Brooklyn Ink) Thousands of anti-corporation protesters converged in Manhattan’s financial district yesterday in a march organized by the Occupy Wall Street movement and backed by several major unions. It...