Author: Jack Mirkinson (Jack Mirkinson)

A Brooklyn man was arrested after a teenage girl was assaulted on Schenectady Avenue last Wednesday. Shayquan Davis, 18, of 118 E 91 St. was charged with rape and robbery in the case.

Fat Tuesday comes to Williamsburg tonight as Brooklyn Bowl, along with L Magazine and Southern Comfort, hosts a Mardi Gras parade and performance tonight. The parade begins at McCarren Park and Driggs at 7 p.m. and is followed by a performance by the Wavves. Organizers are expecting over 800 people. Free.

The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership local development corporation has brokered a deal to create an artistic tribute to Michael Jackson at the entrance to the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in downtown Brooklyn. The artist shot his famous “Bad” video there in 1987. (NYP)

The City’s Economic Development Corporation has decided to install devices to prevent people from climbing up the Coney Island Parachute Jump. The authorities want to ward off daredevils and base jumpers who in recent years have managed to scale the structure.

Queens Senator Hiram Monserrate who was expelled from the State Senate last week by a 53-8 vote found the support of of five Brooklyn Democrats to keep him in the legislative body. Monserrate was expelled due to charges of domestic violence although the case is yet to go to trial. The Brooklyn Senators were backing...

Anthony Blair, 44, a Guyanese immigrant of 20 years who worked as a security guard in Manhattan, was stabbed in the neck around 2 a.m. while walking home from a party behind Getty gas station along Atlantic Ave. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Kings County Hospital. He is survived by his girlfriend Deborah...

Adam James, 26, was shot multiple times in the torso at 32 St and Mermaid Avenue on Sunday night, according to Poilce reports. The Ink’s Lenore Cho went out to the deceased’s house in Canarsie only to find an uncleared mail box and neighbors who knew little or nothing about the victim.

A couple from Sunset Park has alleged that their daughter Shannon Windraw, had her finger cut off by the Maclaren Quest stroller she was riding in back in 2004, when she was only 2 and a half years old. Elizabeth, the mother, says they were on Fifth Avenue and 69 Street when the mishap happened....

An accident on the N train left a 16-year old boy without a leg on Saturday night. Jose Juarez of Sunset Park was out to do graffiti north of the Kings Highway station platform when the accident occured. He’s now in stable condition at the Lutheran Hospital.

At least 1000 people came to grieve and pray in the aftermath of the quake in Haiti on Friday night. The mass was led by the chief bishop of the Brooklyn Diocese Nicholas DiMarzio who was accompanied the only Haitian-born priest in America, Bishop Guy Sansaricq. The Ink’s report to follow.