Author: Brooklyn Ink Staff (Brooklyn Ink Staff)

Today was the first day of trial for Adis Medunjanin, a Queens man who was arrested in 2009 for planning a terrorist attack on a Manhattan subway with admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi.  Prosecutors say the men received training from al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Read more at: NY1

Congressman Ed Towns and other local politicians in Brownsville are trying to save a former police stationhouse that’s been left to rot on a Brownsville street.  The old 65th precinct, which was later used as the 73rd precinct at 1546 East New York Avenue, has not been poorly maintained since it was purchased eight years...

After appearing suspicious on a a south-bound C train, police checked Rahmeek Younger, 22, and found a loaded gun in his pocket.  Younger has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon and resisting arrest.  Read more: NY 1

The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where the New York Islanders’ hockey team plays its home games — might be filled with asbestos, a cancer-causing fiber, according to a state investigation.This could bring the team to the $1-billion, asbestos-free Prospect Heights arena if the lethal substance isn’t removed by the start of next season. Read more...

Kensington Post Office, considered the worst by many in the city because of its rude workers and long lines, misspelled the borough’s name as Frooklny on thousands of package pick-up slips. Read more at: The Brooklyn Paper

Benjamin Mei, a 39-year-old Brooklyn resident, accidentally fell into a creek in southern New Jersey earlier today while trying to retrieve something that had fallen into the water, authorities say.  Mei and two friends had been fishing at Fenwick Creek in Mannington Township when the incident occurred. Read more at: NBC New York

Mr. Butler and his partners have paid $11 million for a former Studebaker Service Station on Dean Street in Crown Heights. They plan to convert the 155,000 square-feet of space into a commercial mixed-use development that will house artists and assorted creative types as well as a food hall—a $30 million project, to which Goldman...

Brooklyn College faculty members defended their school’s provost from allegations that he discriminated against Jewish candidates for academic jobs and promotions. Read more at: JTA.org

Police are searching for a man they say broke into a Brooklyn apartment and sexually assaulted a woman. Officials say 26-year-old Mussiah Mooney climbed through the apartment’s rear window, groped the 22-year-old victim and stole cash before escaping. Read more at: NY1 News