The Brooklyn Ink

Occupy…Brooklyn Football?

While all eyes at the stadium were fixated on the Brooklyn Tech Engineers football game, one man had his sights set on something bigger.

A Brief And Angry Encounter

The man with the army backpack took a seat on the train. He pulled a torn and marked up Bible out of his bag and began to read it. The A train was full but [...]

Witness for the Prosecution: Shop Owner Re-lives Killing in Court

Judge Joel M. Goldberg looked impatiently across his courtroom. The trial of The People vs. Donald Michel should have started at 10:15 a.m. It was now 11. The gallery and jury box remained empty. Defense [...]

Faith and Spirits Bring Solace to a Grieving Mother

Norma Cayetano walked slowly, balancing a steaming plate of food in each of her large, walnut-colored hands. One dish held a soft mound of rice and beans and a juicy slab of oxtail meat; the [...]

Into His Ninth Decade, Rivera Enjoys A Jazz Renaissance

Ray Rivera, jazz guitarist, singer and songwriter, strolled to the mike at the Brooklyn Marine Island Salt Marsh Nature Center on a hot night this June. The pine box of a park ranger station, occupancy [...]

A Garden Grows from Recovery and Penance in Bushwick

At the southwest corner of Himrod Street and Wilson Avenue in Bushwick stands the Himrod Wilson Community Garden, where tomatoes, basil, summer squash, string beans, eggplant, mint and more grow from four plots. Luis A. [...]

“Jocko” Keeps a Hoops Tradition Going in Brownsville

Greg Jackson sat in the bleachers of the Brownsville Recreation Center on a Saturday in July, bouncing a grandson on one knee and squinting his eyes at the basketball game in progress before him. One [...]

The Old Man and The Bridge

Whenever John Manbeck, an 80-year-old retired professor of English and former Brooklyn borough historian, drives across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stays in the middle lane. “Drivers tend to drift toward the edges,” said Manbeck. Manbeck [...]

LIVE BLOG: Brooklyn Reacts to bin Laden’s Death

Late Sunday night President Obama announced that American forces had killed Osama bin Laden in a firefight at his compound in Pakistan. The news came almost 10 years after the September 11 attacks on the [...]

“Friday” – The Brooklyn Remix

The Ink is looking to create a Brooklyn version of Rebecca Black’s song “Friday”. You may have heard it….it’s about Friday. We think a Brooklyn version would sound even better.