The Brooklyn Ink

[VIDEO] Saving Youth, One Push-Up at a Time

Will Crandall is an ex-convict who runs a fitness program for young men and women in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Through his rigorous training, he hopes to reform teenagers and keep them from making the same [...]

Soccer Inspires Kids in Crown Heights

Violence erupts randomly on the streets of Crown Heights.  What has remained consistent is the need for children to get out and play. The violence has been a subject of recent community board and precinct [...]

Football Coach Joe Paterno: No Longer Brooklyn’s Golden Boy

Legendary Brooklyn-raised football coach Joseph Paterno was fired by Penn State University in the aftermath of a sexual abuse scandal involving his former assistant, Jerry Sandusky. The Twitterverse is divided in its support for "JoePa." (Photo Courtesy of the Associated Press)

From Bay Ridge to Atlantic Avenue: Brooklyn’s Marathon

Take a look at the NYC Marathon … from Brooklyn. Kenyan long-distant runner Geoffrey Mutai set a new course record at the New York City Marathon yesterday, taking only 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds [...]

Send Off for Disabled Skier to the Paralympics

Ralph Green will be speaking at Bedford-Stuyvesant today before he leaves for the Vancouver Olympics 2010 to represent the United States in the Paralympics. Green lost his leg at 15 years old because of a [...]

Video – WWE or Bust

Dreams of turning pro have brought wrestler Patrick Ellrich, aka "The Attraction, Hayden Young," from Atlanta, Georgia to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Though he'll attend a WWE tryout camp next week, Ellrich has bigger things on his mind.