The Brooklyn Ink

The Dead Cat: A Conviction in an Animal Cruelty Case

Lordtyshon Garrett was on March 8, convicted of aggravated animal cruelty in an incident that resulted in the death of his mother-in-law’s cat, Madea.

Two Teens; Two Cases; Two Paths

By Tatiana Sanchez Kendall Smith rises as the bailiff calls her name. Her hands are tucked into her back pockets to conceal the handcuffs around her wrists. She is 17 and looks it. She was [...]

A House Dies And a Block Sinks

By Ivana Kottasová It’s just an ordinary house. Three floors. White wooden walls. Nine bedrooms and three bathrooms. Small front yard. Boarded windows. 1136 Bushwick Avenue, right in between Madison Street and Putman Avenue. There [...]

Can Sheepshead Live Without Pathmark?

By Lillian Rizzo The closure of a Pathmark in Sheepshead Bay raises a serious question beyond where to shop: what becomes of the businesses next door? The Atlantic and Pacific Company announced in mid-February that [...]

Would Walmart Hurt East New York?

By Jeremy B. White When Erii Lowe goes shopping in East New York, he likes to have a lot of options. Money is tight and the small bodegas that dominate the neighborhood are too expensive, [...]

Remembering the Duke of Flatbush

By Joe Deaux Edwin “Duke” Snider died last week in Escondido, Cal. He was 84 years old. For many in Brooklyn – especially those born after 1957 — the name conjures no recognition. But for [...]

The Week Ahead

Produced by Aliza Moorji

Becoming Henry Miller: How Brooklyn Fired a Writer’s Imagination

By Saskia de Rothschild

Henry Miller was a 13-year-old teenager walking along Kosciusko Street when his life as a writer began.

The Weekend

By Bilal Lakhani Good Morning Brooklyn! Friday is here and the Ink wants to help you plan out your weekend. We’ve put together a list of weekend affairs the borough has to offer, which may [...]

Mixed Outcome for Stimulus Program in New York City

By Miranda Neubauer

A construction project in Greenpoint was hoping for a piece of a $121 million pie of federal stimulus funding allocated to the city in June 2009 for so-called “shovel-ready projects,” from the $787 billion stimulus package. But in the city and throughout the country, a large portion of the funds went unused for their originally intended purpose.