The Brooklyn Ink

Teens Break into Brooklyn Home

Four teens burst into a Brooklyn couple’s home, wearing ski masks and brandishing weapons. Three took turns sexually assaulting the woman, who was 22, while the fourth perpetrator went to withdraw money with stolen ATM [...]

Brooklyn’s $10 Million Street

Away from the hustle and bustle of Wall Street, bankers, and other high-level professionals and executives have found a new brownstone paradise: Columbia Heights. Residents of this strip of homes, averaging $10 million, boast about [...]

Jobless Get Free Hairstyles [Video]

With her salon located in an area with approximately 15.3 percent unemployment, Deivin Jemmott helps unemployed women with free hair styling to make them feel more confident about how they look. Produced by Khadijah Carter [...]

Eye on the Bronx: A 19-year-old Facing Drug Charges Claims Police Beat Him

“You gotta clap when he comes out, clap!,” the crowd of 50 to 60 people chanted, gathered outside the corrections entrance on the side of the Bronx Supreme Court Criminal Division on Tuesday morning. The [...]

Son Charged in Mom’s Fatal Stabbing

Police have arrested and charged a Brooklyn man with stabbing his mother to death in Prospect Heights yesterday. Andrew Bell, 28, is accused of killing his 43-year-old mother inside her second-story apartment at 487 St. [...]

Murals With a Mission [Video]

A gigantic blue rat with a menacing look, a vibrant yellow baby holding onto to a cigarette, a background of agonized skull heads and ill-looking subjects—these may not be the most pleasant of sights, but [...]

FBI Arrests Brooklyn Teacher on Child Porn Charges

A teacher’s aide at a Brooklyn school was arrested again Monday by the FBI and charged with making child pornography videos of students he was assaulting at the grade school where he worked, authorities said [...]

Cop Pleads Guilty to Gun Ring

Associated Press- A Brooklyn police officer has pleaded guilty in a smuggling case that involved guns, cigarettes and slot machines. Officer William Masso pleaded guilty to four conspiracy counts. He could face roughly five to [...]

Brooklyn in the Hall! Jay-Z Performs at Carnegie

Jay-Z performed to a packed house at Carnegie Hall Monday night, with new mom Beyonce photographed in public for the first time since giving birth to their baby girl, Blue Ivy Carter, to support him. [...]

At Life’s End [Video]

All pet owners know that saying good-bye to a beloved animal companion is a painful and difficult process. The Hope Veterinary Clinic in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn helps local and out-of-borough residents come to terms with [...]