Then and Now: Forever Ink's Top

I think it’s a testament to our entrepreneurial awesomeness that Flatbush has so many bars that are also something else. We have a bar/coffeeshop (Erv’s on Beekman), a bar/flowershop (Sycamore), a bar/vintage guitar shop (Bar Chord), and this cute yet edgy lil’ gem, Forever Ink, a bar/tattoo studio on Flatbush Ave near the King’s Theatre.

Here it is in the present day and in the 1940s, when it still had the top to its half turret! I wish I had a crazy story to tell you, like a plane crashed into it, it caught on fire, and one of the Ditmases had to put it out, but yeah, it was probably just cheaper to take it off than maintain it.