The Brooklyn Ink

Road Work Ahead for DUMBO

Construction has begun on street and bridge renovations that will ultimately see the Brooklyn Bridge repainted and resurfaced, while the Manhattan Bridge receives new suspension cables. The road work to support bridge construction will be [...]

Six Injured After MTA Bus Accident In Canarsie

Six people were injured and taken to two area hospitals in Canarsie after an MTA bus hit a crossing sign this morning. According to CBS, three of the injuries are considered serious.

287 Guns off Brooklyn Streets

In the first gun buy-back event of the year, Brooklynites sold the police 287 firearms to the tune of $42,420 Saturday. The event, which used six participating churches as collection points for the guns, followed [...]

Greenpoint Memorial Day Parade Still a Go

The Greenpoint Memorial Day Parade will go on. Members of the St. Stanislaus Memorial American Legion Post were working on ways to curb their parade route by 25 percent, in conjunction with new rules stemming [...]

East New York Residents Stopped the Most

The New York Police Department stopped 12.5 percent fewer people during the first three months of 2010 than during that same span a year ago. Brooklyn’s East New York was the neighborhood with the most [...]

Hate Crime Trial: And Then There Were Twelve

by Matthew Huisman “What should we do if we cannot come to an agreement on a specific count?” That was one of three notes jurors passed to Judge Patricia Di Mango during day three of [...]

Barrier-Breaking Lena Horne Was Raised in Brooklyn

Lena Horne, the famed jazz singer and actress of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, grew up in Brooklyn and had strong ties to the borough. Horne died Sunday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She was remarkably [...]

Video – Death Bear Gets Sad So You Don’t Have To

Performance artist Nate Hill has been visiting homes in Brooklyn dressed as Death Bear, a character he created to help rid people of their heart aches. Mary Plummer reports.

Jury Deliberations To Continue

Jury deliberations in the trial of Keith Phoenix are set to continue Tuesday at 10 a.m. after the jury was unable to reach a verdict by 8:30 p.m. Look for more coverage of the case [...]

Posterboy Goes To Jail

The illegal artist Posterboy—also known as Henry Matyjewicz, who rips up subway ads and turns them into art pieces to the chagrin of many, including the NYPD—was sentenced to 11 months in jail by a [...]