The Brooklyn Ink

Primping Paws and Whiskers [Video]

Former Wall Street banker Tom Vasquez left the hustle and bustle in downtown Manhattan and opened Perfect Paws, a pet grooming shop in Brooklyn Heights, to embrace his love for animals.

A Grassroots Memorial Honors Sheepshead Bay’s Victims

Grieving over their losses, neighborhood residents turned a handball court into a wall of memory

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 [...]

From Persian Cats to Yellow Dogs

The Yellow Dogs, an underground Iranian rock band from Tehran, Iran recently moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They've made it to America, but where do they go from here?

Posterboy Goes To Jail

The illegal artist Posterboy—also known as Henry Matyjewicz, who rips up subway ads and turns them into art pieces to the chagrin of many, including the NYPD—was sentenced to 11 months in jail by a [...]

Navy Yard Expansion Seeks Foreign Investment by Awarding Residency

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is seeking investors for its new $125 million expansion project, and hoping to attract foreign investors by offering the prospect of an EB-5 visa (created by the Immigration Act of 1990, [...]

Truman Capote’s Heights home breaks market record

The famous canary yellow 18-room mansion on 70 Willow St. in Brooklyn Heights is on sale for $18 million, surpassing the previous record for a Brooklyn home by almost $6 million. Capote—who rented a garden [...]

Greenpoint’s Polish Community in Shock After Plane Crash

After the death of President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other important political figures, Greenpoint's Polish community grieves and turns to prayer