The Brooklyn Ink

Tilden High School Offering Students Last Chance To Graduate

By Gabe Kahn
Steve Lampert got up from his chair at Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn in mid-June, about two weeks before the final graduation in its history. He grabbed his cell phone and told his colleague Rachel Malabas that he was going to call a certain student. “I’m going to try to get [...]

VIDEO – Brooklyn Bug Biters

Dennis considers himself a “bug chef.” He founded the organization “Insects are Food,” in 2009 and he is one of the leading proponents of eating insects.

Grandeur and Cheese At The Brooklyn Bridge

By Jack Mirkinson
The bridge plays host to all shades of human activity.

Anglers Hunt for the Stately, Elusive Striper

As local sporting fish wane, Sheepshead Bay fishermen wonder, where are the striped bass?

Old Park Slope Meets New Park Slope

Crazy children bring both sides of the neighborhood together.

A Rare Ruling in Criminal Court

A judge declares a mistrial at Brooklyn Criminal Court, leaving lawyers left deciding whether to start again in the case of a shooting in a bodega.

A Morning Run

Atlantic Avenue at seven in the morning: intersections like these could make those without cars thankful for their Metro cards. With each green light, cars punch the gas, peeling ahead at full-force like a drag race commute to work.

Hate Crime Trial: The Last Ride

By Nate Rawlings
Officer Daniel Ludeman squatted in the back of the ambulance as is sped toward Elmhurst Hospital. Next to him, paramedics monitored Jose Sucuzhanay’s vital signs, making sure he was still breathing and that his heart did not stop beating.
Blood was still coming out of Sucuzhanay’s head. Paramedics tried to staunch it without further [...]

“Cirque du Critique”

By Mustafa Mehdi Vural
Tuan Le, 33, and his girl friend Vanessa Alvarez, 28, rushed from the subway on Sunday afternoon to Whitman Auditorium at Brooklyn College to see the show of Chinese Acrobats of Hebei.
“My girlfriend loves Chinese Acrobatics,” said Vietnam-born, Germany-raised Le.
“I do little bit the same thing,” added Alvarez, smiling.
Le and Alvarez are [...]

After School Ice Cream

It was 3 p.m. in Brooklyn Heights. School had just let out at PS8 and parents and nannies scrambled to collect their children as they walked out of the gates.