Author: Brooklyn Ink Staff (Brooklyn Ink Staff)

WNYC reports that in a show of support to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Brooklyn Republican Congressmen have issued statements in support of Bloomberg’s stand on the Occupy Wall Street protestors. In a strongly-worded statement issued today, Congressman Michael Grimm told the protestors to ‘pack up their tents, buy a bar of soap and...

SchoolBook reports that while the Department of Education moves to bring a charter school to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, State Assemblywoman Joan Millman and former Deputy Chancellor for the DOE, Carmen Farina, are backing a new proposal of an early learning center serving students in prekindergarten and kindergarten that would compete with the charter school for...

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a non-profit organization founded by Assemblyman Vito Lopez, has come under scrutiny after a city probe and audits that allege several financial improprieties. A report by the Department of Investigation alleges that besides inaccurate tax and expense reports, the council had doubled the...

Although Occupy Wall Street protestors weren’t able to shut down the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, DNAinfo.com reports that the protestors were still jubilant, dancing and singing in Zuccotti Park after a massive demonstration that tried to block workers from heading to the stock exchange. The protestors plan to take their protests on...

The Occupy Wall Street protests caused severe delays in the city’s bus services Thursday morning, DNAinfo.com reports.  All Brooklyn-bound lines, Staten Island bus services and the M5 buses were running late, although service was operating normally by the afternoon. Further disruptions are expected on the subways as protestors plan to take their protest onto the...

The New York Post has posted a video released by the police showing the mystery murderer of 50-year-old Brooklyn accountant, Larisa Komsky, lying in wait for her just before he brutally stabbed her to death yesterday, just steps away from her apartment building on Homecrest Avenue in Sheepshead Bay. Cops showed the tape to Komsky’s...

The Brooklyn Paper reports that a group of seven workers have filed a lawsuit against Atlantic Yards on Tuesday, accusing developer Bruce Ratner of setting up a ‘sham’ job-training program that gave them false promises of employment. Although they were promised union membership and jobs in exchange for taking a 15-week apprenticeship course in 2010,...

Less than a week after a wave of anti-Semitic hate crime that led to three cars being burnt and a number of anti-Semitic graffiti on vehicles, benches and sidewalks, the New York Daily News reports of another anti-Semitic act of vandalism in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. The sign at the Avenue J subway stop...