The Brooklyn Ink

East Greenpoint contaminated with toxic chemicals

The Brooklyn Paper reports that areas of northeast Greenpoint are dangerously contaminated. Some dry cleaning agencies are apparently using the area as their own toxic waste dump, and the state environmental agency is tasked with [...]

Marty Markowitz promotes free tax advice for low income earners

Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where the decimal is? Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is promoting free advice for long-income residents on prepping for tax season today in the Capitol One [...]

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Arab-Americans Waiting for Change

Arab-Americans, gathered in Bay Ridge, pressed President Obama to move forward on immigration reform.

Orthodox Face Mumps Outbreak

Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are heading to immunization clinics around the city after a mumps outbreak—the largest U.S. outbreak in five years—has spread through the community.

Unemployed workers compete for census jobs

The unemployed, who had heard that there was work to be found as census takers, began arriving to take their tests at noon. One by one they rang the bell at Community Board 8’s office [...]

School bus hits and kills 4-year-old

A yellow school bus struck a 4-year-old boy at the intersection of 13th Avenue and 49th Street in Sunset Park just after 8 a.m. Amrom Altman, a resident of Sunset Park, died at the scene. [...]

Flying manhole cover injures two Con-Edison workers

Two Con-Edison workers were injured, one critically, when an underground explosion flung a manhole cover at the intersection of Broadway and Hart Street in Bushwick just after 3 a.m. The cover struck one worker in [...]

Unidentified man stabbed in Prospect Heights

Police responding to a 911 call at 9:25 Tuesday night found a man on the third floor of 388 St. Marks Avenue with stab wounds to his torso. He was rushed to Kings Country Hospital [...]

Coney Island fire victim identified; police make arrest

The NYPD has identified the victim of yesterday’s fire at 2970 W. 24th St as 11-year-old Tavon Turpin. Police also announced the arrest of Melinda Mclain, 59, on charges of reckless endangerment and endangering the [...]