Author: Alyson Martin (Alyson Martin)

A film about Jessie Singer Sylvester, a quite ordinary aging Brooklyn resident, was the inspiration for “Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn.” She lived in the borough during the 1970’s and kept a neat, thorough journal that her great-niece found after her death. Her niece, Ellen Cassedy, found the diary, according to the New York Times. The...

Gay rights activists marched in the Seventh Marriage Equality Wedding March on Sunday. More than 300 gathered to support gay marriage. New York tends to be a liberal state and has many similar policies as states like California and Massachusetts, but New York doesn’t allow same-sex marriage. “This is a New York state disgrace,”  Manhattan...

The man who was watching Aiyden Davis, 2, when he became unresponsive and later died at Interfaith Medical Center, has confessed to using his hands, knees and elbows to hit the boy. Reginald Williams, 31, also said he slammed Aiyden on the floor. He has been arraigned on several charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court, including...

The Brooklyn Ink has covered two deadly incidents in Brooklyn this weekend.  Aurelio “A.J.” Manresa, 21, was shot and killed outside one of the Farragut Houses at 191 Sands St. in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Cambrey Thomas has more here. The Bedford-Stuyvesant community was shocked and wants answers after two-year-old Aiyden Davis was beaten to death on Friday....

The city has started looking for developers to build a $3.5 million plaza on city-owned property on Willoughby Street in downtown Brooklyn. The project, stalled by the flagging economy, is now expected to begin during the summer of 2012, the New York Post is reporting.

One of Brooklyn’s most well-known Democrats, Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, is under several federal investigations, involving real-estate and non-profit groups he’s involved with, according to the New York Times. Much of the information regarding the matters is still unclear because sources often don’t talk during ongoing investigations.

A total of 18 women have come forward, saying an NYPD detective improperly searched them. Two of them are filing federal suits. The detective, Charles Derosalia, and his lawyer are calling the women “admitted drug addicts,” according to the Daily News.

More than 50 students have been told they need to switch schools because Intermediate School 234 on E.17th St. in Gravesend, Brooklyn, is just too crowded, the Department of Education has said. Students must now  relocated to IS 14, DOE spokesman Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld said. Students and parents were disheartened by the news. “It broke my...

An NYPD helicopter circling for surveillance as Air Force One landed at JFK Airport made an emergency landing in Wednesday in Jamaica Bay, off the coast of Brooklyn, according to the Daily News. The helicopter was supposed to land about 30 yards away at their airport, Floyd Bennett Field, refuel, then escort President Obama to...

A total of 41 Blood gang members have been arrested in an upstate New York drug bust, including one man from Brooklyn. Collin “White Boy” Campbell, 31, had apparently created a web that traveled from the city as far north as Lake George, a resort town at the base of the Adirondacks. The investigation, named...