By Joseph Alexiou At 4 p.m. last Friday, poet and Brooklyn resident Rodrigo Toscano arrived in front of the Greenpoint Coffeehouse to find the doors shuttered and the furniture removed. In the windows several sign read “Coffeehouse Closing” and “last day of business Monday Feb 8, 2010 (lease not renewed).” “I’ve been coming here for...
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February 12, 2010February 19, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business
Free Parking Spots, a Text Away
Park Slope drivers can spend 27 minutes per day looking for parking spots, but those hours of endless circling could shrink, thanks to ParkingAroundMe.
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February 9, 2010February 19, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business
Snow Won’t Stop the Cabs
Traffic in the borough is bad enough, but factor in a foot of snow and driving becomes a dangerous endeavor.
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February 5, 2010February 11, 2010Business
Jobless suffer despite employment rise
By Amanda Julius After losing her job in January, Esther Coleman became a statistic. She is now one of the 20,000 Americans who were laid off last month even as national unemployment dropped from 10 to 9.7 percent, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Labor today. As an updated report on unemployment...
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December 3, 2009February 4, 2010Business
Paris Comes to Bed-Stuy
Paris has come to Bed-Stuy and people are eating it up. La Table Exquise is new to the neighborhood and is already catching eyes.
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November 25, 2009February 4, 2010Business
Bushwick’s Recession Is Not Over Yet
The heart of Bushwick beats between Dekalb Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, and Knickerbocker Avenue. The Brooklyn Ink walked this triangle formed by the three Bushwick central streets to take the economic pulse.
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November 20, 2009November 23, 2009Brooklyn Life, Business
Photo for 11/20/09: Post-its
A photo depicting Post It ideas from a recent Good Ideas Salon in Brooklyn. Among them: iPhones that work and share-able everything.
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November 12, 2009February 4, 2010Business
Deal Has Coney Island Merchants Smiling
Christopher Alessi on a new plan to develop Coney Island—one that has local merchants and residents hopeful for the future.
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November 11, 2009February 4, 2010Business
Popcorn Fires
A look at the aftermath of two popcorn machines fires in the span of six weeks at the UA Court Street Stadium 12 in Brooklyn Heights.
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November 9, 2009February 4, 2010Business
Looking for Mr. Lundy
By Katerina Valdivieso “That’s the one! That’s the portrait! Let me see?” Victor Coker was stunned when he saw the picture of his missing portrait in a page of the book I had brought to show him: Lundy’s: Reminiscences and Recipes from Brooklyn’s Legendary Restaurant. I had opened it to a random page and, ironically,...