The Brooklyn Lens Webcast 4/13/2012 from The Brooklyn Ink on Vimeo. The Brooklyn Lens webcast for the week of April 13, 2012.
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Girl Power! Project Girl Showcases Young Borough Artists [VIDEO]
Project Girl Performance Collective is a performance ensemble for girls ages 8 to 21 from the five boroughs. Dominique Fishback of Brooklyn has been participating since 2008, when the the non-profit was founded. The group gives these girls a chance to write and produce their own performance poetry and theater and presents on various stages...
The Plot to Seed Bomb Brooklyn
Some like the below-the-waist, underhand lob. Others use an inconspicuous flick of the wrist – after a couple of furtive glances around – while walking past an empty lot. A few prefer to deliver the payload over fences with an arcing overhand throw. Many more are satisfied with simply stuffing the marble-sized balls into...
Brooklyn Teens Test Their Green Thumbs [VIDEO]
A joint venture between EcoStation: NY and Lee Mandell of Boswyck Farms, the new Bushwick Campus Greenhouse gives students from four public high schools the opportunity to learn how to grow and sell produce, even when growing up in the paved streets of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Marks Good Friday with the Way of the Cross (Slide Show)
The annual Way of the Cross procession over the Brooklyn Bridge on Good Friday 2012. The procession, led by Cardinal Dolan and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, began at the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in downtown Brooklyn, made its way across the East River and marched through downtown Manhattan.
Dreams of the Big Screen [VIDEO]
After eight years of pursuing his passion and working for the MTA, Brooklyn-bred filmmaker Wilkie Cornelius, Jr. has finally realized his dream of making a movie. He premiered his first film Single Hills at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and hopes to turn it into his Hollywood debut.
With Seven Cases of Sexual Abuse in City Schools So Far This Year, One Brooklyn Mom is on Alert
Sitting on bench near the entrance to P.S. 262 in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon, Maddy Cruz patiently awaits for her daughters to come out of the doors. “I always tell my kids, ‘Don’t talk to any adult.’ I don’t care who it it is,” she says, shaking her head. Cruz’s warnings to her children could...
The Brooklyn Lens Webcast 3/30/2012
The Brooklyn Lens webcast for the week of March 30, 2012.
Seasoned Cook Has Seen It All
Beatrice Mobley, believed to be one of the oldest surviving workers of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, sits at her dining room table in the Vinegar Hill area of Brooklyn, surrounded by mementos from various stages of her life. She picks up of her 66-year-old Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital I.D. badge with its sepia-colored distressed...
Photographer Carves a Niche
Godfather-esque music lilts over the stairwell as a Brooklyn craftsman ascends the steps to his dimly lit workbench. This is how filmmaker Dustin Cohen introduces us to his newest character. There’s something innately seductive and cinematic about watching a video that slides from soft to razor sharp images in videos like Cohen’s. And aspiring filmmakers don’t...