The Brooklyn Ink

Man Convicted of Hate Crime to Appeal

A Brooklyn jury convicted Keith Phoenix yesterday of murder as a hate crime, but he’s planning an appeal, according to several news outlets. He faces 25 years to life in prison at his sentencing on [...]

Young Boys Struck By Bullets While Riding Scooter

Two young boys were hit by stray bullets last night while out riding a scooter in Brownsville. Jaquan Cross-Williams, 12, and Tyrese Bollers, 10, were playing on Legion Street when the older boy was hit [...]

Phoenix Found Guilty of Hate Crime

The Brooklyn Ink brought you updates throughout the semester about a hate crime trial in Brooklyn involving an Ecuadorean immigrant. The jury in State Supreme Court yesterday found Keith Phoenix guilty in a retrial of [...]

Brooklyn iPhone Coverage to Improve

On the heels of the release of the iPhone 4, Apple is saying they will work to improve service to Brooklyn (along with Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. These are all areas where a high [...]

Tilden High School Offering Students Last Chance To Graduate

By Gabe Kahn Steve Lampert got up from his chair at Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn in mid-June, about two weeks before the final graduation in its history. He grabbed his cell phone [...]

Inmate Found Hanged in Williamsburg NYPD Precinct

A man who was in custody at the 90th precinct in Brooklyn was found by police after he hanged himself sometime before midnight, several news outlets are reporting. Details surrounding the death and the man’s [...]

Thousands of Brooklyn Residents Will Get Census Knocks Again

Managers didn’t file critical information about Brooklyn residents correctly, and now about 10,000 homes need to be recounted, the U.S. Census Bureau has said. The people responsible are not the workers in communities and knocking [...]

Brooklyn Has Taste for Whiskey

According to the Wall Street Journal, four whiskey distilleries are in the process of opening in Brooklyn. There have been recent law changes that make it easier and cheaper to open a distillery and people [...]

Brooklyn Residents Strained by MTA Cuts

Several news outlets are reporting the hardship some Brooklyn residents will face as a result of citywide cuts to try to bridge an $800 million budget gap. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided to slash [...]

Brooklyn Web Designer Building Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor

A Bedford-Stuyvesant man is a freelance computer designer by day and an amateur nuclear scientist at night. He has been working in a Brooklyn warehouse for two years on the nuclear fusion reactor and has [...]