Author: Alyson Martin (Alyson Martin)

The New York Police Department has released the name of a Brooklyn stabbing victim. Mary Luz Colon, 39, died yesterday after police found her inside an East New York apartment with a stab wound to the neck. The Brooklyn Ink will update when more information is available.

The Newark Star-Ledger is reporting that Luis Morales, 32, of Brooklyn, has admitted that he was part of an armed robber of a northern New Jersey perfume warehouse. During the siege, a group entered the warehouse on Feb. 9 and held 11 employees hostage. For his role, Morales could face 20 years in prison and...

Police officers are not liking Annette Robinson’s (D-Brooklyn) bill for police officer’s to shoot suspects with guns in the arms or legs, saying cops use too much force as it is. “Not being a police officer, I would not be able to discuss the instance or the time that happens, but I do know that...

A man jumped onto the tracks of the L train Monday to save Jessica Oshita, 26, after she fainted and fell onto the tracks Monday night. When the subway train approached, the man shoved Oshita’s unconscious body to a well between tracks. Oshita was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital yesterday. The has not been...

The New York Post is reporting that Brooklyn could have its share of Super Bowl festivities in 2014, when New York City hosts the biggest football game of the  year. Peter Davidson, who is the executive director of the Empire State Development Corp., told the newspaper yesterday that some gala events for Super Bowl XLVIII...

You read right. Spike Lee, the born and raised Brooklyn filmmaker, in encouraging people to drink the special edition Absolut Brooklyn. The vodka is inspired by the borough and the bottle features a brownstone with Lee’s childhood address. The vodka is also inspired by New York City, flavored with apple after the Big Apple. Absolut...

The lawyers for Michael Mineo, the man that said police sodomized him after they caught him smoking pot outside Prospect Park, said the police may have  tampered with his underwear before trial. The police were acquitted in a criminal trial, but now, two weeks before a $440 million civil trial, Mineo’s lawyers are saying that...

Now that the pedestrian areas of Times Square are permanent, the city is calling on Brooklyn artist Molly Dilworth to make the area cool to look at. Dilworth, of Brooklyn, is creating a piece called “Cool Water, Hot Island.” It is after the weather pattern of cities having hotter temperatures than rural areas during the...

There was no shortage of “Lost” watching parties last night. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that about 500 gathered in Gowanus last night for the series finale. Tickets sold out about a month ago for the event and a band–called Previously on Lost–made a pact to create a song honoring each episode.