The Brooklyn Ink

Brooklyn DA Starts Hotline for Anti-Gay Hate Crime

Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes today announced the creation of a task force to fight the rising trend of anti-gay hate crime. The task force will provide a hotline out of his office staffed with dedicated [...]

Brooklyn Mom Pleads Not Guilty in Child Starvation Case

Carlotta Brett-Pierce, the Brooklyn mother whose four-year-old daughter weighed 18 pounds at the time of her death, pleaded not guilty to assault charges at the New York State Supreme courthouse today. Her daughter Marchella was [...]

‘Rent Is Too Damn High’ Candidate Immortalized with Action Figure

Jimmy McMillan, a fringe candidate for governor from the ‘Rent Is Too Damn High’ party, has been given his own action figure. A Connecticut company is selling 12-inch tall dolls modeled after the eccentric Brooklyn [...]

Williamsburg Whistle Blower Suing DOE for $15M

Brian Ross, a gym teacher at PS 132 in Williamsburg, is suing the city’s Department of Education for $15 million, claiming he was discriminated against after filing an OSHA complaint. The complaint alleged that the [...]

Clinton Endorses Cuomo at Brooklyn Rally

By Camilo Smith It’s not as if Andrew Cuomo needed the political rock star brilliance of his former boss, Bill Clinton, to lead him into next week’s gubernatorial election. Cuomo already enjoys a double-digit lead [...]

Passion and Beauty, Even at a Sewage Plant

By Miranda Neubauer The leaves that make autumn such a pleasant sight for many New Yorkers have the exact opposite effect for Jim Pynn. “It’s a horror,” he says. The reason:  He’s the plant superintendent [...]

Bensonhurst Food Pantry Reaches Out to Neighboring Communities

By Alysia Santo Thomas Neve’s storefront is almost always full of people, yet being busy is not enough to keep him open. Neve is the founder of Reaching Out Community Services in Bensonhurst, the only [...]

CUNY Center Boosts Brooklyn Science Industry

By Michael Del Castillo CUNY’s Medgar Evers College has opened a new $247 million School of Science, Health and Technology building on the former site of a sanitation garage. The building, known as Academic Building [...]

Crown Heights Residents Reject Pawn Shop

By Alexandra Alper The hit reality TV series, “Pawn Stars,” opens with images of an antique watch, a sword, and a dramatic shot of three men in black. The show, which premiered last year on [...]

Trial Begins For Domestic Violence Killing

The trial of Teon Brummell, 33, accused of the stabbing murder of his girlfriend, 21-year-old Natasha Southerland, began yesterday.