Author: Thorsten Schier (Thorsten Schier)

Over 100 law enforcement officials searched a wooded area in Howard Beach today for a 7-year-old boy who vanished from his Brooklyn foster home in January, 1010 Wins reports. Our own Yepoka Yeebo reported on this story in January. Patrick Alford disappeared from his Starrett City home after going to take out the trash on the...

The mother of a Brooklyn man who faces deportation after being arrested when he told cops he was the victim of an anti-gay hate crime wants justice, the Daily News reports. “It hurts me so much,” said his mom, Jorgelina Aguirre. “He’s there in jail unjustly.” Aguirre, supported by the nonprofit group Make the Road...

Narcotic officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) raided several stores along a ten-block radius on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, arresting employees for allegedly selling cocaine and marijuana while on the job,  reports WABC-TV.  Police officials focused on Nostrand Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights after being alerted...

The Brooklyn man who a female cop shot and killed following a confrontation on the street pulled the trigger against the group of plainclothes officers — but lucky for them the chamber was empty, according to police sources, reports the New York Post. It turned out however  that the chamber was loaded with five bullets...

The economy added 162, 000 jobs in March, the most in three years. Since the start of the recession, the US has lost 8 mllion jobs in total. The jobless rate though remained unchanged at 9,7%. Look out for the Brooklyn Ink’s detailed coverage of the situation in Kings County. Read more  about the national outlook...

Three Arrested in Fatal Subway stabbings A 19-year-old Brooklyn man and two of his pals were hit with double-murder raps on Thursday night for fatally knifing two men on a downtown No. 2 train, police said late yesterday. This is according to the Daily News, which has more on the story. Brenddy Garcia confessed to...

Downtown Brooklyn is set to get a facelift, with a parking lot set to be turned into an art-themed park, reports the Daily News. The man with the plan is Michael Burke of the Court-Livingston-Schermerhorn Business Improvement District, who said that the idea is to make downtown more attractive for investment. Boring walls will be...

Update: The NYDP have identified the suspect as Mark Perkins. Perkins is a M/B/49, 5’7″, 175 lbs, with a mustache, Goatee, Black hair and Brown eyes. In a crime spree stretching over Tuesday night and Wednesday morning this week and following a similar pattern, a young male struck four elderly women over the head with...

All the news that’s fit to use from the borough of Kings. The first thing that greeted Brooklynites in Crown Heights this morning was the sight of saggy pants and exposed boxers. But rather than a marketing campaign for a fashion store, this ad was the brainchild of Senator Eric Adams, who believes that this particular...