Author: Brooklyn Ink Staff (Brooklyn Ink Staff)

A school bus crashed into a day care on Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie around 8:30 a.m. The driver was the only person injured and no children were onboard, The New York Post reports. The bus crashed after hitting an SUV. A small fire is burning in the bus engine, The Wall Street Journal reports. NY1 has on-the-scene footage and reports that...

The Paul Robeson Theater, a worn out – but newly appointed – Brooklyn landmark, has found a patron in Councilwoman Letitia James who said she’ll find city money to pay for repairs but only if the theater’s current management is replaced. The theater’s owner, Josephine English, 90, said she can’t afford upkeep on the 147-year-old...

Brooklyn Sate Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries joined other legislators on Thursday in calling for the creation of an independent commission to investigate what has been described as systemic corruption in the New York Police Department. From charges of planting drugs to gun running and ticket fixing, the NYPD has dealt in recent weeks with a spate...

It really just started as a call for companionship on the roads, but it’s grown into a movement that’s hundreds of runners strong. Aja Marsh started North Brooklyn Runners (NBR) in 2009 as a way to exercise and, in some cases, train for competitive races. But group members say that what sets NBR apart from...

The BAM Opera House in Brooklyn may have felt more like a club last night after an estimated 100 fans joined Leslie Feist, a New York-based singer and songwriter, on stage toward the end of the show. Feist was propelled to pop star status by her song “1 2 3 4.” Feist encouraged fans to...

Conductor Alan Pierson is helping revive the once faltering Brooklyn Philharmonic with a Concert Thursday at Brighton Beach’s Millennium Theater, part of a larger effort to take advantage of the borough’s varied cultural offerings. Pierson’s plan for breathing new life into the borough’s Philharmonic is to play concerts around Brooklyn rather than in a single...

A 22-year-old man has confessed to slashing the throat of his 16-year-old girlfriend, saying he intended to cut her face but missed. Rashad Salaam was arrested Wednesday and charged with the murder of Kyanna Thomas of Queens. Thomas was found in Brownsville on MacDougal Street and Saratoga Avenue at 3 a.m. on September 25. The...

Faced with the opening of Barclays Arena in downtown Brooklyn in September, the New York City Council is considering a bill that would allow the sale of resident-only parking permits on game days. The arena, which will be home to the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets, will host more than 200 events annually. Each event is...

Brooklyn resident Tonye Iketubosin was arrested for allegedly entering a tent and groping an 18 year-old girl at an Occupy Wall Street encampment. He is being charged with sexual abuse for this October 25th incident, and he is under investigation for an October 29th incident where another 18 year-old woman was sexually assaulted while sleeping in her tent.

Adam Kent, a teacher at an all-boys yeshiva school in Midwood, is being charged for his alleged attempt to have a sexual encounter with an under-aged girl. Kent was arrested yesterday at the location where prosecutors say he was suppose to meet a 14 year-old-girl, who was actually an undercover NYPD detective, for “sexual activity in Queens.” Kent is facing a number...