Students of PS 256 in Bed-Stuy at their afterschool Basketball game, started by a group of unemployed fathers led by Tony Fonville, a Bed-Stuy resident. (Photo: Tanay Warerkar/The Brooklyn Ink)

We followed The Last Drummers, a group of artists that play the drums on the 2 train, from Manhattan to Brooklyn and to the Barclays Center plaza. For these Bronx-born conga players, music is a source of inspiration that spreads across the city - under or above ground. 

-Ellie Ismailidou

Top photos: I visited Brownsville, Brooklyn to talk to a few of the neighborhood youth about what it is like to grow up in Brownsville. Some of the children who played basketball in the neighborhood’s courts said it was scary because of the gang shootings and drug dealing that goes on.

Bottom photos: The Bedford Avenue subway stop in Brooklyn during rush hour at about 6 p.m.

-Griselda Denise Ramirez

Brooklynite Jeffrey Stirewalt is telling his tour members stories about Flatbush, where they visited Erasmus High School, Loews’ Kings Theater, and a Dutch Reformed Church. He launched his company “Brooklyn Unplugged Tours” early last year, taking tourists to explore Brooklyn’s off the beaten path from Flatbush to Sheepshead Bay, to ethnic and faraway enclaves that would otherwise not be seen.

By Ding Chenjie

A Flatbush mural informing residents of their rights against police. Picture: Theron Mohamed.

A Flatbush mural informing residents of their rights against police. Picture: Theron Mohamed.

Mayoral Education Forum at PS-29 in #Brooklyn. Thursday May 2nd, 2013. Photo by: Mohamed Al-Shaaban

A construction worker on the roof of the restaurant Tom’s Coney Island. Tom’s faces the boardwalk but somehow managed to escape severe damage from Hurricane Sandy. They held a benefit for their less fortunate neighbors late last year to aid in the community’s recovery. The boardwalk’s businesses are set to be fully operational by summer. (The Brooklyn Ink/Richard Feloni)

A construction worker on the roof of the restaurant Tom’s Coney Island. Tom’s faces the boardwalk but somehow managed to escape severe damage from Hurricane Sandy. They held a benefit for their less fortunate neighbors late last year to aid in the community’s recovery. The boardwalk’s businesses are set to be fully operational by summer. (The Brooklyn Ink/Richard Feloni)

Colorful window displays are the hallmark of the ‘Little Pakistan’ area in Brooklyn (The Brooklyn Ink/Hira Nafees Shah)

A couple, dressed up for a photo-shoot, on a sunny afternoon on Plymouth Street, Dumbo, on Monday, February 22. (The BrooklynInk/Valerie Prassl)

A couple, dressed up for a photo-shoot, on a sunny afternoon on Plymouth Street, Dumbo, on Monday, February 22. (The BrooklynInk/Valerie Prassl)

Brooklynites gathered on April 18, 2013 at the Red Lantern Bicycles for one of the NYC Bike Share classes on the  bike share program that is going to start in May in the city. (The BrooklynInk /Caroline Pailliez)