The Brooklyn Ink

[VIDEO] Artists Trade Time and Talent for Treatment

A new program at the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx provides artists with medical coverage in exchange for their time and talent. Inspired by a similar initiative at Brooklyn’s Woodhull Medical [...]

Consumer Reports Rates Jacobi Medical Center Worst in US

Is Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx the worst hospital in the country? Consumer Reports thinks so. In a new report, the magazine ranked more than 1,000 hospitals in the nation based on the number [...]

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 [...]

Brooklyn Looks to Slow Zones to Curb Speeding

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) launched a Neighborhood Slow Zone program this fall that reduces speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph and adds safety measures, such as speed bumps, within a select area. The first and currently only existing Slow Zone in the city was created in the Claremont section of the Bronx in late November. Now several neighborhoods in Brooklyn are applying for their own Neighborhood Slow Zones, hoping to make their streets safer.