The Brooklyn Ink

Historic Student Loan Changes Also on Tap

by Ryan Tracy The bill even revamps the federal government’s system for making loans to college students.  The loans would now be given to students directly, eliminating a decades-old program whereby private banks made student [...]

Woman Survives Fall From Brooklyn Bridge

Susan Cloud, a Long Island woman, is in critical condition after leaping from the Brooklyn Bridge Monday morning, the Daily News reports. About 11:30 a.m. NYPD harbor cops plucked Cloud from the water near Pier 17 [...]

BK’s Most Dangerous Designer

Designer Karen Patwa adds a little danger to the fashion scene in Boerum Hill.

One Found Dead after Early Morning Blaze

At 1:22 a.m. firefighters and police from the 72nd district responded to a call of a fire at 322 56 Street in the Sunset Park neighborhood. Upon extinguishing the fire, firefighters discovered the body of [...]

Special Election Day

Residents living in Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Midwood take to the polls today to fill the empty 44th district city council seat. Today’s three-way runoff is between Joe Lazar, David Greenfield and Kenneth Rice to fill the [...]

Brooklyn Banks 9-Stair Rail Replicated For New Skate Park

This June, the Maloof Money Cup–a world-famous skateboarding competition–will come to New York City, and though it will be in Corona Park, Queens, the park’s design highlight is the Brooklyn Banks 9-Stair Rail. On Saturday, [...]

This Day In Brooklyn, 1852

Looking back 158 years, this from the New York Times archive: FIRE–EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS Loss.-Friday night, about 12 o’clock, a tire broke out in the large brick building in John-street, near Bridge, occupied by Messrs. [...]

Two Teens Stabbed During Attack In Brooklyn

On Friday, Shantaya Lewis, 17, and her cousin Shakeena Grant, 15, were provoked into a fight and stabbed by a girl who is now dating Shakeena’s ex-boyfriend, the Daily News reports. The exact details about [...]

Is Brooklyn The New Manhattan?

Steve Lewis of BlackBook Magazine spends a night in Brooklyn and finds that it still simply does not compare. His snark towards the understatement-of-an-overstatement that is the hipster scene of the borough is both hilarious [...]

PETA Peeved About Mike Tyson’s Brooklyn Pigeon-Racing

Animal Planet has taken on boxer Mike Tyson’s pigeon-racing show that is to be filmed in Brooklyn and named Taking On Tyson. They have also taken on PETA’s wrath. Entertainment Weekly reports that, even before  [...]