The Brooklyn Ink

Five Brooklyns You Probably Didn’t Know About

It’s easy for residents of Kings County to think they are kings of the world, but they may be surprised to find out that they are not the only Brooklyn in the United States. 

Poor? Not Me, Say Low-Income Elderly in Red Hook and Sheepshead Bay

Spend enough time at the senior centers in Red Hook and Sheepshead Bay, and you’ll be hard pressed to find people who think of themselves as poor. Not that people aren’t living on fixed incomes, [...]

To be Old, and Newly Poor in Brooklyn

The Census Bureau’s new poverty measure shows a huge increase in poor Americans aged 65 and above. How are the elderly in Brooklyn coping?

Hundreds Rally Against CUNY Tuition Hike

As the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees voted Monday to raise tuition, students and professors took to the streets in protest.  For nearly four hours, protesters rallied outside Baruch College, marched [...]

Declining Enrollment Causes Three Schools to Merge

At the beginning of September, Salve Regina Catholic Academy (nursery-8) opened its doors, a brand new Catholic school in East New York that formed from the merger of three struggling schools—St. Rita’s and St. Michael’s [...]

Veterans Voice Unease About Troops’ Withdrawal

  President Obama’s announcement late last month that American troops in Iraq will return home by the end of the year may be bringing the eight-year war to a close. But it is not sitting [...]

A Seasonal Egg Cream in Carroll Gardens

In a neighborhood of maple-colored town houses, there is a maple egg cream.  It’s the fall special at the Brooklyn Farmacy, an old-fashioned soda fountain in a refurbished pharmacy in Carroll Gardens.  The waiter behind the counter [...]

Arraignment Scheduled For Two Suspects In Series of ATM Robberies

Yesterday we told you that police arrested four suspects in connection with ATM robberies in Brooklyn. They allegedly broke into stores, stole cash, and dumped bleach on the machines to erase their tracks. Today, police [...]

A Sex-Segregated Bus Runs in Brooklyn

One Brooklyn bus is not like the others. A New York World exclusive reveals that the B110, which runs between Williamsburg and Borough Park, requires women to sit in the back of the bus, per [...]

Sticking With The Boys

How one Catholic middle school in Brooklyn is addressing the high attrition rate of boys in the school. It’s a brilliantly sunny Wednesday at Brooklyn Jesuit Prep, a co-ed Jesuit middle school in Crown Heights, [...]