The Brooklyn Ink

Williamsburg Couple Must Build ‘Divorce Wall’ at Home

Couples fight, yes, but a judge is making an extreme example of an Orthodox Jewish couple in Williamsburg. Judge Eric Prus handed down a decision Tuesday that Pinchs and Nechama Gold must construct a wall [...]

Hot Town, Summer in the City

In case you managed to escape the heat yesterday, here’s the steamy damage: The temperature in the city hit 103 degrees, a new record. About 6,300 people lost power in the five boroughs, according to [...]

From the Sunshine State to the Big Apple by Bike, Powered by Pizza

A Florida pizza shop owner rolled up to Times Square yesterday after riding more than 1,300 miles from Florida to New York. His diet? Pizza. Matt McClellen said it made sense to share with New [...]

Murders in Northern Brooklyn Spike

The Daily News is reporting today 59 people have been murdered in the East New York area in 2010. That number is high, compared to last year’s statistics. For the same period, 43 people were [...]

The Show is On for Brooklyn Pool Parties

The schedule for this summer’s Pool Parties free concert series at McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg can be found here.

Man Sues Because Yoo-Hoo is Not Good For Yoo

Timothy Dahl, a Brooklyn resident, is suing the makers of Yoo-Hoo for $5 million because the drink claims to be healthy when it’s actually full of “dangerous, unhealthy, non-nutritious, partially hydrogenated oil,” the New York [...]

Brooklyn Videographer’s Answer to BP: Vuvuzela Punishment

Adam Quirk, a Brooklyn video producer, is launching a campaign to get back at British Petroleum CEO the best way he knows how: that loud, unmistakable buzz of a vuvuzela. Quirk wants Tony Hayward to [...]

Failed Subway Bombers Linked to Senior Al-Qaida Official

The bombers that set out in a suicide plot to blow up New York subway lines last summer have now been tied to senior Al-Qaida official Adnan Shukrijumah, several news outlets are reporting. U.S. counterterrorism [...]

Bikini Bottom Ads Removed from Brooklyn Buses

You know you’ve seen them. The vodka advertisements that show a woman’s bikini-clad backside. The Metropolitan Transportation Authorty has removed the Georgi ads from Brooklyn buses that travel in Hasidic neighborhoods because they’re too revealing. [...]