The Brooklyn Ink

A Life in Court: Friendship and Corruption Inside the Brooklyn System

By Alysia Santo Attorney John O’Hara, 49, is waging a campaign to expose the treatment that his mentor and friend, Judge John Phillips, endured in the last years of his life. O’Hara is representing Reverend [...]

Paying Up: Why Landlords Get Away With Mounds of Housing Violations

By Richard Nieva John Gillick is engaged to be married. When asked if he would stay at his apartment in the Flatbush Gardens complex in East Flatbush after the big July wedding, his initial response [...]

Tenants Protest Evictions in “Three-Quarter Houses”

By Léa Khayata Tenants of 42-44 Christopher Ave in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and supporters demonstrated in front of their building – a “three-quarter house” – a transitional home to help past drug and alcohol addicts reintegrate [...]

Police Seek Suspect in Three Flatbush Sexual Assaults

Police are looking for a suspect in three Flatbush sexual assaults that have occurred over the past two years, with the most recent incident being December 10. In that case at approximately 01:50 AM near [...]

Flying Rabbi Sues Jimmy Kimmel

Flying Rabbi Dovid Sondik from Borough Park is suing Late Night star Jimmy Kimmel for using video of him raving in Yiddish without permission, according to the New York Post

City’s School Librarians on Borrowed Time

By Alex Alper “The Skin I’m In” is a popular young adult fiction book with Middle Schoolers at the Urban Assembly School for Urban Environment in Brooklyn, New York. But when they want to read [...]

Stores Attach Themselves to Brooklyn Brand Outside Manhattan

The New York Times profiles a growing number of bars and stores that identify with Brooklyn even though they are located outside Kings County. The Brooklyneer bar is located in Manhattan. So is the Cool [...]

Census: Significant Population Shifts in Brooklyn, Gentrification Intensifies Income Gap

The New York Times reports that newly released Census data indicates that, many Brooklyn neighborhoods, like other New York boroughs, have seen growth in White residents and a decrease in Hispanic residents. In particular, the [...]

As Small Businesses Move From Bedford Avenue, City Council Works On Rent Controls

By Manuel Rueda The Bagel Store in Williamsburg is a popular spot with locals and tourists seeking a quick breakfast or lunch. Asides from the regular fare of poppy seed bagels and sliced meat sandwiches, [...]

Trying to Turn Ex-Commuters into Consumers

By Richard Nieva Brooklyn College’s first-ever student dormitory has brought a new influx of students to what was historically a commuter campus, and with half the school year almost over, local businesses continue trying to [...]