Category: <span>Brooklyn Life</span>

Happy Thanksgiving! The Ink will be on turkey leave for the rest of this week, but be sure to check back on Monday for all the news about Brooklyn you can’t find anywhere else.

By Jack Mirkinson
Inspector Peter Simonetti, Commanding Officer for the 71st Precinct, had come to the auditorium of Middle School 61 in Crown Heights to tell the audience at the monthly meeting of Community Board 9 to work with the police and watch out for suspicious activity. A meeting that had contained the usual ragged but pleasant atmosphere quickly turned into something altogether spikier.

The weekday "afternoon activity" of an unemployed Williamsburg techie can involve a dog walk, a quick stop at the local bar, and apparently, a pickup attempt.

This McDonald's restaurant has become the center of a huge controversy after its employees allegedly assaulted a disabled war veteran for bringing his guide dog into the building.

It's rare to find a moment of peace in a New York City subway station, especially the Lorimer Street L stop in Williamsburg during rush hour.

The women begin to pile through the doors of Spoons, the Borough Park luncheonette, just after 1 o’clock in the afternoon. They have an hour.

Miranda Lin delivers a remembrance of the Midwood discount clothing mogul Sy Syms.

A man, whose name has yet to be released, was struck and killed by an oncoming G train this morning in Park Slope, Stefanos Chen reports.

You know that winter’s nearly upon us when there are more leaves on the ground than in the trees. Get out and enjoy this week of weather in the high 50s, before the temperature dips below. And before we get snow. Because with Thanksgiving in under a week, it could happen any day.