The Brooklyn Ink

The Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center, a non-profit institution, is being sold to the Boro Park Operating Company and the Boro Park Land Company for $60 million. The new owners have informed the city that they plan to cut 506 jobs after the sale is complete.
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In comments made to WFAN, on Wednesday, Backman hinted that he might be in line to manage the team he won the 1986 World Series with.
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Ladwan Brown, 33, died after being shot in the head during a home invasion. A second, unidentified, person in the house was bound and stuffed in a closet, but escaped after chewing through her duct tape.
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After an argument began between two men on a Manhattan-bound 4 train, one of them pulled out a knife and stabbed the other, as the train pulled into the Utica Avenue station.
The assailant also clubbed the victim with a hammer, after stabbing him.
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Citing the school’s decision to have incoming freshmen read the book, “How Does It Feel To be A Problem – Being Young and Arab in America,” alumnus Bruce Kesler has written Brooklyn College out of his will.
No word so far on how many dollars, or rials, Brooklyn College can no longer expect.
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Officer Alfonso Mendez, 30, had his gun and badge taken away from him and will likely face charges for refusing to help Briana Ojeda, 11, who he found in the throes of an asthma attack.
Mendez pulled Ojeda’s mother over as she drove her daughter to the hospital, but claimed he didn’t know CPR, which the [...]

Sherin Brown, the woman caught on tape for faking injuries she attributed to a falling lamppost, was given a plea deal in exchange for harsher sentencing.
According to the terms of the deal, charges will be dropped if she stays out of further legal trouble for the next six months.
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After an unsuccessful attempt at robbing the local Apple Bank, the would-be thief carjacked a woman, only to get stuck in traffic and finally was cornered by the local Shomrim foot patrol.
New York Police Department officers ultimately arrested the thief, who as of yet, remains unidentified.
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Four firefighters were injured while dousing a fire early Monday morning on Putnam Avenue.
Police and fire department officials are calling the blaze suspicious and are investigating it as a possible case of arson.
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The Brooklyn Grange is one of many organizations turning rooftop farming into a sustainable way of urban life.
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Sherin Brown, 23, was arrested for faking injuries she claimed were the result of a tractor trailer hitting a light post and pinning it on her.
Surveillance cameras showed her sliding under the light post and acting hurt.
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A three-alarm fire broke out on Sunday morning, destroying rows of storefronts on Flatbush Ave.
The stores were located between Lott Pl. and Flatlands Ave.
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To save on labor costs, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has been using prisoners from Rikers Island to set up and break down equipment for this summers concert series at Asser Levy Park.
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Nigerian-born Iguosade Osahon, 28, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he faked the identities of over 750 people and stole over $500,000 to buy Rolexes and other haute-couture items.
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The Prospect Park Zoo will formally introduce two newborn baboons to the public today.
The zoo is also holding a naming contest for the two babies, currently known as #1 and #2.
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Irina Shekhets, who recently graduated from Brooklyn Law School, was one of 14 passengers killed on Tuesday when the plane she was flying in crashed in Nepal.
Shekhets was on vacation and enroute to a Mount Everest base camp, at the time of the accident.
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Eion Cass, 33, a convicted felon who served 11 years for attempted murder was charged with first-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon on Wednesday.
Cass is accused of killing Yoseph Robinson last week, during a botched holdup at a Midwood liquor store.
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The Brooklyn-based Azteca Linda Corporation is issuing a recall for its “Queso Fresco” and “Queso Hebra” cheeses, after the queso fresco tested positive for listeria in Rhode Island.
The second cheese was recalled as a precaution, as both cheeses were produced with the same equipment.
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The company’s co-founder, Alexis Miesen, accused landlord, Manuel Fernandez, of reneging on an an agreement for extending the lease.
Miesen claims Fernandez wants $3500 monthly, or double the price of “comparable properties in the neighborhood.”
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Schmuel Cohen, 24, was sentenced by a federal judge in Trenton, NJ to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to laundering money.
43 other people were indicted, as part of a July 2009 sting operation.
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A day after the Orthodox Jewish community held a memorial for Yoseph Robinson, police questioned a person of interest in the case.
Robinson, a Jamaican-born convert, was killed while protecting his girlfriend during a robbery.
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The Orthodox Jewish community came out en masse on Sunday night to remember Yoseph Robinson, who was killed while protecting his girlfriend during a liquor store robbery.
According to reports, the police have a suspect and are actively pursuing him.
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Joe D. Green, who pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud, was sentenced to ten years behind bars for filing fraudulent paperwork to obtain $600,000 in mortgage loans.
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In what director Spike Lee dubbed, the “second annual” tribute to Michael Jackson, the King of Pop’s fifty-second birthday will be celebrated at Prospect Park’s Nethermead.
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Police released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with the rape of a parks department employee, last Thursday.
The 20-year-old employee was raped in a playground bathroom by a man wielding a box cutter.
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From a rainwater-collection system to a bicycle-powered blender, Habana Outpost – located in Fort Greene – contains numerous eco-friendly features.
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Tiferes Yisroel, an all-boys yeshiva in Flatbush, is asking parents to buy software that monitors web browsing, to determine whether or not their children are surfing the Internet for porn.
They also recommend sending the monthly browsing reports to a friend outside the family, for review.
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New York State Agriculture Commissioner, Patrick Hooker, issued a recall of all alfalfa sprouts processed at Snow White Food Products, located at 621 Bergen Street.
Salmonella can be fatal to children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems.
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A 29-year-old parks department employee was raped on Thursday morning by a man wielding a box cutter.
The incident occurred just after 9 a.m., in St. Andrew’s Playground on Kingston and Atlantic Avenues.
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Yoseph Robinson, 34, a Jamaican-born convert to Orthodox Judaism, was shot to death last night in the MB Vineyards liquor store in Midwood.
He died while protecting his girlfirend, who was being robbed of her jewelry at gunpoint.
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Deputy Sheriff James Smyth, of Brooklyn, was arrested on Wednesday and hit with almost a dozen different charges for allegedly stealing approximately $13,000 from the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association.
According to the indictment, Smyth allegedly wrote eight checks to himself, using three of the union’s different bank accounts.
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Local blogger, Brownstoner, recently posted photos of freshly painted bike lanes along Furman Street. The new lanes are currently inaccessible, as they run through the sealed-off portions of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Abdi Farah’s exhibition opened this past Friday, shortly after Mr. Farah won the competition on the Bravo channel’s show, “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.”
Along with the winning the right to exhibit, Farah also walked away with $100,000.
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Florencia Vasquez was sentenced to 16 years behind bars after pleading guilty to beating her 11-year-old daughter to death with a mop handle in 2008.
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Das Kapital Capital, the brainchild of Reddit.com founder Alexis Ohanian, will soon set up shop in Brooklyn. The 27-year-old Ohanian is looking to form a team of angel investors who’ll put their money into technology startups.
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Whether it’s street art or a memorial remains to be seen, but Park Slope residents are talking about an abandoned white baby stroller with three plastic flowers.
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Former New York Giants baseball player, Bobby Thomson, who hit “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” died on Monday at his home in Savannah, GA.
Thomson is best remembered for hitting a three-run home run, in the bottom of the ninth inning, off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, Ralph Branca. Thomson’s heroics helped the Giants beat the [...]

Lance Stephenson, a Brooklyn native and NBA rookie, was arrested yesterday and charged with assault after witnesses claim he pushed his girlfriend, and baby’s mother, down a flight of stairs.
Stephenson was drafted this year by the Indiana Pacers.
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Three new buildings – a pair of six-story condominiums and a 64-room boutique hotel- are being planned at North 11th and 12th Streets, near McCarren Park.
The apartments begin at just under $500,000 and top out at $1.6 million.
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The Brooklyn Bridge, one New York’s most iconic symbols, will undergo a four-year-long renovation, beginning next Monday.
The city will pitch in $286 million of the total $508 million that the project will cost. The remainder will be paid for by the federal government.
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Russian billionaire, Mikhail Prokhorov, has petitioned the NBA to allow him to change the name of his recently-acquired.
But some of us wonder: Is the name really that bad, or is he just trying to make a buck off the new merchandise, should the name change be approved?
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Harold C. Turner, a right-wing talk show, host was convicted on Friday for threatening the lives of three federal judges.
A federal jury found that his blog entry declaring that they “deserve to be killed,” and the posting of the judges’ photos, was not protected under the First Amendment.
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Grimaldi’s owner, Frank Ciolli, and landlord, Dorothy Waxman, are set to meet in court tomorrow. Waxman charges that Grimaldi’s owes her $57,000 in back rent and that payment deadlines from her previous suit against Ciolli have also been missed.
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New York City’s Department of Correction (DOC) plans to re-open the Brooklyn House of Detention, which was closed in 2003.
The DOC scrapped its original plan to double the number of beds, from 759 to just over 1500, after protest from the local community.
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The Brooklyn rapper, whose real name is Inga Marchand, took the stand, in an attempt to clear her name.
Marchand is being accused by her neighbor of violating a restraining order against her, after Marchand allegedly hit her with a Blackberry.
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A funeral home owner in Brownsville, Brooklyn donated services for the five members of the Jones family who died in a fiery murder-suicide on Staten Island in late July. Police originally thought C.J., a 14 year-old victim committed the crime, but later ruled that the responsibility was with the mother, Leisa Jones, 30, NY1 reports. [...]

The “Queen of Soul” has canceled her two upcoming shows in Brooklyn following a fall on Sunday that fractured ribs. She was scheduled to perform at Wingate Field on Monday and Asser Levy Park in Coney Island on Thursday, August 12. “I was very much looking forward to being in Brooklyn and having a foot-long [...]

Manhattanville College has given Orayne Williams, 18, a full-ride, four-year scholarship after reading about him in the Daily News. The paper published a story about Williams’ struggles and triumphs in June and since then, he has received $15,000 in aid from readers. But, Manhattanvillege College took things a step further.
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Two Guyanese men were convicted on Monday by a federal jury of planning a terrorist attack on Kennedy International Airport. Russell M. Defreitas and Abdul Kadir also conspired to set off a series of explosions along a main city gas line. The two now face life sentences in prison, according to the New York Times. [...]

Brooklyn-based photographer Marilyn Nance is suing the producers of the Broadway musical, Fela, claiming they used a photograph she shot of the Nigerian nightclub, Fela Kuti, without her permission.
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