The Brooklyn Ink

A Life in Court: Friendship and Corruption Inside the Brooklyn System

By Alysia Santo Attorney John O’Hara, 49, is waging a campaign to expose the treatment that his mentor and friend, Judge John Phillips, endured in the last years of his life. O’Hara is representing Reverend [...]

Sleep Disorders: Another Deadly Threat to Returning Veterans

By Alysia Santo Last week, Joseph Jones, 43, nearly killed himself while driving home from his job as a welder for the Army. He fell asleep while barreling down route 9A from Camp Smith in [...]

Teens Remind Local Arabs to Vote

By Alysia Santo “You just have to keep it cool,” says Rawan Toom, as she hangs up the phone and puts down her “Get Out The Vote” calling script. In between laughs and two slices [...]

Bensonhurst Food Pantry Reaches Out to Neighboring Communities

By Alysia Santo Thomas Neve’s storefront is almost always full of people, yet being busy is not enough to keep him open. Neve is the founder of Reaching Out Community Services in Bensonhurst, the only [...]

Bay Ridge Leaders Involved in MTA Lawsuit

A new complaint of age discrimination under the City Human Rights Law was added Thursday to the lawsuit filed against the MTA by Southwest Brooklyn’s State Senator Martin Golden and Councilman Vincent Gentile.