The Brooklyn Ink

Brooklyn Photographer Sues Broadway Play, Fela, For Using Photo Without Permission

Brooklyn-based photographer Marilyn Nance is suing the producers of the Broadway musical, Fela, claiming they used a photograph she shot of the Nigerian nightclub, Fela Kuti, without her permission.

Two Brooklyn Policemen Indicted After NYPD Sting Operation Nets Them

Two New York Police Department Officers, Sgt. Raymond Stukes and Officer Hector Tirado were arrested in a sting operation intended to nab another cop. The two were indicted after arresting an undercover police officer and [...]

Former Brooklyn Dodger, Billy Loes, Dies at 80

Billy Loes, an All-Star and three-time pennant winner with the Brooklyn Dodgers passed away today in Tucson, AZ at the age of 80. Loes was famous for predicting a Yankees win in seven games, while [...]

New Yorkers Speak Out Against Arizona Immigration Law

Protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday to voice their opinions against what they say is a “racist” law taking effect in Arizona on the same day. NY1 reports with a video.

A Borough Away from Ground Zero, a Different Mosque Controversy

By Shlomo Friedman Every Friday night, Ham Ood Suliman, 18, drives the four miles from his apartment building on Avenue Z and East 28th Street in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn to Bath Avenue [...]

A Half Way House Splits Lefferts Garden in Half

By Danielle Hester Two months before Kimberly Grey was to be released from prison earlier this year, she had no place to go and no family to take her in. After more than 16 years [...]

Closing Arguments Heard in JFK Bomb Plot Trial

A prosecutor portrayed Tuesday the alleged plan to blow up JFK airport and part of Queens as revenge for mistreatment of Muslims. Russell Defreitas, 66, a former cargo worker, and Abdul Kadir, 58, wanted to [...]

Water Search Halted for Brooklyn Man

A Coast Guard search of the Long Island Sound for Eoin Curran, 30, has been called off. Curran, from Ireland, just moved to New York and was taking his first sailing lesson when a storm [...]

A Cornfield Brings Art and History to Boerum Hill

By Keith Olsen After CBGB, the popular punk music club in the East Village, shuttered its doors in 2006, Carroll Gardens artist and filmmaker Christina Kelly was inspired.  She summed up her feelings in a [...]

Brooklyn Man, RIT Student, Drowned at LI Pool Party

Nelson Cole, a 21 year-old Brooklyn resident and Rochester Institute of Technology student, drowned Sunday at a birthday party for a friend on Long Island. Paramedics and friends tried to restart Cole’s heart, but couldn’t. [...]