The Brooklyn Ink

Youth Hookah Trend Catches Fire

By Alysia Santo Eighteen-year-old Vas Vasolo and nineteen-year-old Hani Kinani are spending the evening at this hookah bar in Bay Ridge to share the sweet flavored “double apple” smoke and to hang out with [...]

East Brooklyn Clinic Celebrates Women’s Health Week

Patients and staff at Dr. Betty Shabazz Health Center in East New York discuss their biggest health worries. Mary Plummer reports.

Brooklyn Trades Soda for Money

Modeled after gun buy-back programs, a soda buy-back program is being sponsored by the Alliance for a Healthier New York at the New Lots Family Center in East New York. NY1 reports residents can trade [...]

Orthodox Jews fear mumps outbreak in Brooklyn

Read the Brooklyn Ink’s novel take on the mumps outbreak. We ask what the long-term implications are of a disease that can cause reduced fertility in adolescent men.

Orthodox Face Mumps Outbreak

Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are heading to immunization clinics around the city after a mumps outbreak—the largest U.S. outbreak in five years—has spread through the community.

Health Care Comes in a Truck

A Medicare approved Health Maintenance Organization with a prescription drug program with the government visits Bedford-Stuyvesant... in a truck.

Concerns Deepen over Football Head Injuries

People are talking about brain damage in football—not only in the NFL, but in high school ball as well. Daniel Roberts reports the sentiment from a number of BK football coaches and parents.