The Brooklyn Ink

Bed-Stuy Bakery Uses Internet to Fundraise

Matthew Tilden, owner of SCRATCHbread, a bakery in Bed-Stuy, is raising $10,000 through a Web site Kickstarter. Tilden hopes to use the funds to expand from a wholesale restaurant and grocery to a ground-level retail. [...]

Filene’s Basement, H&M and Aéropostale To Come to Fulton Street

Retailers like Filene’s Basement,  SYMS, H&M and Aéropostale are setting up shop at Fulton Street Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. With upscale housing developments being built, developers want to attract big name retailers. More on WSJ

Sunset Park Recycling Center Breaks Ground

A new recycling plant in Sunset Park that will serve as the principal recycling facility in Brooklyn has begun construction. The Sims Municipal Recycling Facility, a 100,000-square-foot facility, will create 100 new jobs.  It is [...]

Brooklyn Schools May Close Due to Poor Performance

John Dewey High School, Kappa VII Middle School and Sheepshead Bay High School are only three of the 47 schools that may close due to poor performance. The schools represent the lowest 5% in regards [...]

Halloween at 313

When a new tenant moves in to 313 Clinton Ave. in Clinton Hill owner Janna Hyten always asks, “Do you like Halloween?” It helps if they do.

Tense Debate Over Greenpoint Homeless Shelter

By Miranda Neubauer Residents at a recent community board hearing regarding a new homeless shelter in Greenpoint expressed predictable concerns that the addition would add to crime and drug problems among the homeless in the [...]

Cop Praised for Heroism – and Marksmanship

By Amaris Castillo Feris Jones seemed surprised to see photographers waiting for her when she arrived at the Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza in downtown Brooklyn on Thursday morning.  The NYPD Detective smiled shyly for the [...]

Prosecution’s Witness Refutes Diagnosis

Dr. Alexander Bardey, the prosecutions expert witness, disputed earlier testimony made by the defense’s expert witness, Dr. Sanford L. Drob, who said the accused, Teon Brummell, 33, suffered from Extreme Emotional Distress. Brummell is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Natasha Southerland, his girlfriend, on September 20, 2004.

Judge declares mistrial in murder of WABC newsman

The murder trial against John Katehis, 18, was declared a mistrial today by Judge Neil Jon Firetog. The jury remained at a deadlock after three days. Katehis was accused by prosecutors of murdering WABC journalist [...]

Hackers Converge in Brooklyn for NYU Computer Contest

Student hackers and computer security pros from around the country are converging in Downtown Brooklyn today for NYU Poly’s seventh annual Cyber Security Awareness Week. The competition brings together the country’s best college and high [...]