The Brooklyn Ink

My BK Greek Wedding

The Brooklyn Ink takes you to a Greek wedding in Fort Hamilton with bouzouki player Mike Stoupakis and his band, Fantasia Music. Opa!
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World Series Opens Old Wounds of Nostalgic Dodger Fans

As Yankee fans across the city root on their team in the World Series this week, Brooklyn Dodger fans lament the past.

Legal Troubles

By Jack Mirkinson
Judge Neil Firetog, a man who does not suffer fools gladly, was presiding over a homicide case one Thursday morning at the Kings County Criminal Court on Jay Street when the prosecutor in the case, Mr. Hale, revealed that the defense attorney, Mr. Ward, had committed a rather large lawyerly error. One of [...]

Photo for 10/30/09: Halloween in BK

House of ghouls, somewhere in the depths of Greenpoint. Happy Halloween, Brooklyn!
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Priest for Jayden Lenescar Ponders Innocence, Suffering

Father Andrew Struzzieri received a phone call this week from Mackenzy Lenescar, whose four-year-old son had been murdered on Oct. 23, allegedly at the hands of his mother and her companion. Would Father Andy, as he is known, conduct his son’s funeral?

The Confrontation

By Sarah Portlock
Deloris Gillespie wants one minute to talk, just one minute. But it’s 9 pm on the dot and it’s time to end the two-hour community meeting, and she has already had her turn to speak.
Earlier, Gillespie, an older black woman, railed about the gentrifying masses to her Prospect Heights neighborhood who, with their [...]

Photo for 10/29/09: World Series Circa 1866

Before the Yankees ever faced off against the Phillies, it was the Atlantics of Brooklyn versus the Athletics of Philadelphia in this lithograph of the second championship game in 1866. For more photos of the New York-Philadelphia baseball rivalry click here.
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Bed-Stuy’s Waterless House

Residents in one Bedford-Stuyvesant house went without running water for 2 months – and there are still issues with the building

Brownsville Holds a Vigil, and a Community Searches for Answers

Dozens of Brownsville residents gathered together in front of Metropolitan Diploma Plus High School last night to pay tribute to Malachi Cotton, who was gunned down in front of the school the day before.

Courtyard Gospel

By Terry Baynes

She was hard to miss, sitting on the bench in front of the New York State Supreme Court on Court Street.  She crooned along to the gospel music coming from the round portable stereo player in the seat next to her.  A reusable plastic grocery back stood by her feet.  On [...]