MTA’s $29 million service investments bring back to Brooklyn some of the bus routes cut in 2010. MTA proposes to restore more bus routes and create new routes in 2013. Read more at: Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Author: Brooklyn Ink Staff (Brooklyn Ink Staff)
Home
Brooklyn Ink Staff
Post
October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
High-profile Hasidic wedding to draw followers to South Williamsburg
NYPD is planning to monitor traffic safety tomorrow night, when a grandson of a Grand Rebbe of the Satmar Hasidic marry the daughter of a Williamsburg Rabbi. Read more at: DNAinfo.com
Post
October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
No ice skating this winter!
Residents in Williamsburg and Greenpoint will have to travel further if they want to skate — the rinks at McCarren Park or Prospect Park will not be available this winter. Read more at: The Brooklyn Paper
Post
October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Better alternative to jail for felon moms?
Columbia University research reports lower mental illness rates and less drug abuse for felon mothers who are allowedto live with their kids in a shared apartment in Brooklyn rather than in prison. Kids in the program remain in school, as opposed to kids of imprisoned mothers who fail school more often and who sometimes end...
Post
October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
No more bus ride, Syringe Man
Court bans Shelwyn Patt, 53, from using New York City busses without an escort. Patt allegedly stabbed a B68 bus driver on Prospect Park West with a syringe last month. Read more at: NYPost.com
Post
October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Jane Austen fans flock to borough
More than 700 Jane Austen fans attended the annual meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, held at the Marriott in downtown Brooklyn this past weekend. Read more at: NYT.com
Post
October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Jay Z takes subway to Barclays Center
MyFoxNY.com reports that Jay Z took the R train from Chelsea to the Barclays Center last Saturday, on the last day of his concert series. Read more at: myfoxny.com
Post
October 9, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
WWII warships in Coney Island Creek?
A Brooklyn commercial diver captured sonar images of vessels that could date back to the World War II in the waters of Coney Island Creek. Read more at: NYPost.com
Post
September 5, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Dow, Job Reports, etc.- but How Are YOU Doing?
Brooklynites Measure Their Economic Status Friday’s monthly jobs report is just one of many measures of the state of the American economy. And while the presidential candidates, economists, journalists, pundits, employers and job seekers will seek meaning in those numbers – as they do with the Dow, housing starts, and consumer confidence – we decided...
Post
August 14, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Politics, Slideshow
Paul Ryan First Impressions: From Bay Ridge to Bushwick
It’s been three days. On August 11, Mitt Romney announced that Paul Ryan would be his running mate, reigniting the presidential race. What does Brooklyn think about that? To answer the question, Brooklyn Ink reporters fanned across the borough, asking residents how they felt about the congressman from Wisconsin and his controversial “Path to Prosperity” budget plan.