Author: Brooklyn Ink Staff (Brooklyn Ink Staff)

Bushwick residents have become involved in the recent events surrounding the occupation of Wall Street. From voluntary workers who participate in the distribution of food for the protesters, including community activists, to artists and students. Despite the difficulties in obtaining food and funds for support, local residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood continue to gather in...

People who frequent the Dekalb market on Flushing Avenue, between Willoughby and Fleet Streets, will have more stands to visit starting Saturday. Thirty vendors will join the market, including a Jacques Torres chocolatier, Australian meat pies and clothes shops from local designers. Since it was opened in July, the market has included amongst its stores...

BigAppleRx, the medication discount card that was launched this past May, has been a success amongs New Yorkers who can use it to earn money on prescription drugs. The card can be used at participating stores, including Walmart, Target, CVS and other pharmacies where accepted. Savings have been estimated at around $ 1.5 million. Manhattan...

A large group of teenagers marched over Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday to protest against the NYPD’s policy of stop-and-frisk. Amidst the light drizzle, the protesters walked along with campaign members for Just and Fair Policing. Members of this organization as well as the protesters complained that blacks and Latinos are about nine times as likely as...

Students at the Frederick Douglass Academy IV in Bed-Stuy are facing the prospect of no graduation this year, due to scheduling mistakes. Their complaint is either registration for unnecessary classes or failure to be enrolled in much needed classes. Department of Education officials say they are looking into the matter, leaving parents and students to...

A drunken driver was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide after running over a man on Leonard Street in Greenpoint Monday night, police said. This is the second significant traffic accident in the past week that has happened in the area. Read the full story at The Brooklyn Paper.  

The New York Police Department is investigating a claim that a white sergeant in Brooklyn’s 79th precinct called a black officer “boy” on several occasions. The officer, Roberto Stokes, filed a complaint two weeks ago against Sgt. Sean McLaine with the NYPD Office of Equal Employment Opportunity. McLaine has been transferred from the Bedford-Stuyvesant station house....

Adolfo Martinez, 26, of Sunset Park, has been arrested for groping an 18-year-old woman Monday night on 36th Street in Sunset Park. He is charged with forcible touching and sexual abuse. The attack was the twelfth sexual assault since March in Brooklyn. Police said Martinez was identified from a surveillance video and that he gave...

Police are investigating whether the theft of iPads from a Best Buy in East New York was an inside job. Some store cameras reportedly were turned off when four thieves stole $112,000 worth of iPads at about 4 a.m. today. Read the entire story at the Daily News.

Frustrated by waiting for a day’s work on a street corner in Williamsburg, sisters Teresa and Yesenia Bucio started the Apple Eco-Friendly Cleaning cooperative in 2010. The group uses homemade cleaning supplies and has drawn women who would otherwise be at the mercy of chance to find cleaning work. Read the entire article at the...