The Brooklyn Ink

City’s Transitional Housing for Homeless Lacks Oversight

The lasting effects of the recession and record numbers of homeless people in New York City have heightened tension between the city’s Department of Homeless Services and neighborhoods that feel overburdened by shelters.

An Ominous Account of the Financial Crisis

Perhaps the only thing more chilling than the current condition of Europe’s banking and financial systems—and the threat of contagion—is the notion that some people saw this coming and did nothing. They played their hands [...]

Occupy “Day of Action” Ends with March into Brooklyn

The Occupy Wall Street movement poured into New York’s most populous borough as thousands of demonstrators marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday evening.

Brooklyn Murder Trial Delayed Pending Witness Transport

A Brooklyn murder trial involving the boyfriend of an ex-wife was put on hold this morning pending the outcome of a hearing in Pennsylvania to determine whether a witness will be transported to New York to testify.

Grit and Optimism in Coping with the Recession’s Lasting Trauma

It happened so quickly, and its effects have lasted for so long. Two years after the recession ended, upwards of 100,000 people in Brooklyn are still without work. We know the numbers. But who are [...]

Unemployment by the Numbers

Seen it All: Long-time Shopkeeper in Bed-Stuy Honored for ‘Loyalty’

Eric Bullen, store owner in the neighborhood since 1977, was honored as an “economic development trailblazer” during the seventh annual Bed-Stuy Alive.

Four Years After Tragedy, Bed-Stuy’s Mental Health Care Still in Decline

In 2007, Khiel Coppin, an 18-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant man with a history of mental illness, was shot and killed by police during a confrontation at his family’s apartment. The killing focused attention on the state of the health care system in Bed-Stuy as Community Board 3 pointed to the system’s failure to intervene on Coppin’s behalf.

Brooklyn boosts NY home prices

The average price for a home in Brooklyn climbed to $589,000 this year, an 8 percent increase from last year, according to the Real Estate Board of New York. Home prices in Manhattan and The Bronx [...]

Cops grill possible suspect, set up lineups in serial groper case

Police questioned a possible suspect last night in connection with a string of sexual assaults in Brooklyn. The suspect reportedly matched the description of a man who groped an 18-year-old woman in Sunset Park Monday [...]