The Brooklyn Ink

SPECIAL REPORT: Growing Up in Brooklyn

More than 280,000 children live in Brooklyn. Every single one of them has a story to tell. Reporters from the Brooklyn Ink spent a month scouring the borough for these stories, here’s what they found:

On the Waterfront

The Brooklyn Ink explored the borough to see what was happening on Brooklyn’s vast waterfont. Here’s what we found in the water.

[VIDEO] Disabled New Yorkers Struggle to Get Around

Trudging up the stairs on the subway, it’s easy to forget that there are New Yorkers who can’t make it past a single step. They suffer from mobility issues or need a wheelchair to get around.

Brooklyn Remembers Number 42

Brooklyn residents relived the days of the Dodgers with this weekend’s premier of “42,” the biopic of sports and civil rights legend Jackie Robinson.

Brooklyn Strollers March to Save Long Island College Hospital

A Cobble Hill ‘Stroller March’ was held Saturday by parents and their children born at Long Island College Hospital in an appeal to Governor Cuomo to keep LICH open. SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which owns [...]

Coney Island Pier Damaged by Sinking Barge

A barge was sinking off of Coney Island Saturday and trying to bring the Steeple-Chase Pier with it. The barge was being used to affect repairs on the pier after it sustained damage from Hurricane Sandy. [...]

Police Seek Suspect for Three Rapes in Brooklyn

The NYPD is looking for a man who raped three women in Brooklyn. The suspect engaged each victim in conversation before luring them to the site of the assault, two just blocks from each other [...]

Brooklyn’s Markowitz Delivers His Last State of the Borough

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz delivered his final State of the Borough address Thursday night. Markowitz is wrapping up his 12th and final year, having hit his term limit. In a spectacle of an event [...]

Brooklyn Hasidic Sect Considering Buying Williamsburg Armory

The Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg is considering buying the massive armory on Eighth Avenue. The armory was built for the National Guard in the late 1800s but has been vacant for the [...]

Parachute Jump Getting 20 Times More Wattage on Coney Island

The city has paid for a $2 million upgrade to the lights on the Parachute Jump in a project spearheaded by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Coney Island’s main ride operator, Zamperla USA, has installed [...]