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  1. August 30, 2026 Navy Yard Council Members Lincoln Restler and Crystal Hudson asked the Navy Yard's president to stop hosting all-night raves, citing hundreds of complaints and festivals whose music started at 6 a.m..
  2. August 30, 2026 Bay Ridge Council Member Kayla Santosuosso and state Sen. Andrew Gounardes asked the NYPD Highway Unit for more patrols on the Belt Parkway after a crash killed three teenagers Tuesday; the NYPD says injury crashes there are down 49 so far this year.
  3. August 30, 2026 Greenpoint Permits were filed for a six-story, six-unit condo building at 146 Meserole Avenue, near the Nassau Avenue G stop.
  4. August 29, 2026 Crown Heights The city broke ground on a $36 million renovation of the 1914 Carnegie library at 1044 Eastern Parkway, adding a three-story wing on Schenectady Avenue and reopening in summer 2028.
  5. August 29, 2026 Bed-Stuy The city handed the Bed-Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corps permanent ownership of its Greene Avenue home after three decades of month-to-month leases, clearing the way for a new building.
  6. August 29, 2026 Bay Ridge Burglars hit three Third Avenue restaurants between 3 and 4:30 a.m. Friday, cracking a safe at Bar Chuzo; the NYPD warned other operators to check their entry points.
  7. August 29, 2026 Crown Heights One person died in a fire at the NYCHA Albany Houses that the FDNY believes a lithium-ion battery started.
  8. August 28, 2026 Brooklyn Heights Locals are split on Mamdani's $4 billion plan to patch the BQE's triple cantilever for another 40 years, with the Brooklyn Heights Association objecting to the temporary bypass highways near Brooklyn Bridge Park; DOT holds virtual Q&A sessions Oct. 6 and Oct. 22.
  9. August 28, 2026 Crown Heights The city broke ground on a $36 million renovation of the 1914 Eastern Parkway Library, expanding public space more than 50% and adding an elevator and ramps, with a pop-up branch opening this fall and the building reopening in summer 2028.
  10. August 28, 2026 Brighton Beach Three teenagers died when an Escalade flipped on the eastbound Belt Parkway Tuesday night; the driver, 18-year-old Huzayfah Makharesh, had skipped a family trip to Egypt to work on his Brooklyn College application.
  11. August 28, 2026 Flatbush The NYPD denied a permit for what would have been the city's first Trinidad and Tobago Independence Day Parade this Sunday, saying the Church-and-Flatbush route would unreasonably interfere with traffic; the denial notes alternate routes and dates can still be discussed.
  12. August 28, 2026 State approves the city's takeover of Maimonides Medical Center — *Brooklyn's biggest private hospital is about to become a public one, and the fight over what that means for Borough Park is not finished.* Top story
  13. August 27, 2026 Coney Island Former Juice & Moore owner Shamel Kelly sued the city for $6 million, alleging 60th Precinct officers raided him repeatedly after he filed a CCRB complaint and that a mayoral staffer referred him to the police commissioner's twin brother, who asked for $2,500
  14. August 27, 2026 Crown Heights A judge temporarily blocked DOT's protected bike lanes on Brooklyn and Kingston avenues, a project Mamdani restarted after the Adams administration shelved it
  15. August 27, 2026 Brooklyn Heights Local officials briefed four days before the $4 billion BQE plan went public called the temporary bypass highways near Brooklyn Bridge Park "invasive and disruptive," and the project needs both a ULURP and a state parkland alienation bill
  16. August 27, 2026 The Brooklyn Democratic Party rule rewrite — *Reformers won a majority of district leader seats in June. On Tuesday night, behind taped-over windows in Mill Basin, the seats stopped being the thing that counts.* Top story
  17. August 26, 2026 Bed-Stuy The dog run at Herbert Von King Park is closed indefinitely after soil tests found arsenic and mercury, with remediation folded into a reconstruction not starting until fall 2027.
  18. August 26, 2026 Prospect Park A $1.4 million valve on Prospect Park Lake will cut its potable water use by about 800,000 gallons a day and keep up to 12 million gallons of sewer overflow a year out of Gravesend Bay.
  19. August 26, 2026 Sunset Park City Hall's BQE announcement quietly revived the Third Avenue safety redesign Adams shelved, on a corridor where more than 80 people have been killed or seriously hurt in seven years.
  20. August 25, 2026 Bay Ridge A Shore Road apartment burned early Monday, hours after police removed the body of a man in his 70s from the same building; six apartments took water damage.
  21. August 25, 2026 New Lots The NYPD released images of two masked men wanted in the Aug. 19 shooting that killed 17-year-old Ahmir Jordan inside Hakim's Restaurant on New Lots Avenue.
  22. August 25, 2026 Mamdani's $4 billion BQE cantilever rehab — *The BQE you drive today is the BQE your grandkids will drive, and the fight now is over a temporary highway on Furman Street.* Top story
  23. August 25, 2026 The Brooklyn Democratic Party rules fight — *Twenty-two reformers won in June. Tuesday night, the current chair asks an outgoing committee to change who gets to vote.* Top story
  24. August 24, 2026 Brownsville Permits were filed for a nine-story, 99-unit mixed-use building at 69 Chester Street, a block from the L at Sutter Avenue.
  25. August 24, 2026 The BQE triple cantilever rebuild — *Robert Moses built it for 50,000 cars a day and 50 years. It has carried 130,000 for 70, and the fix will outlast most of the people reading this.* Top story
  26. August 23, 2026 Bed-Stuy The dog run at Herbert Von King Park is closed after soil tests found elevated arsenic and mercury; dogs can go off-leash in the rest of the park before 9 a.m. and after 9 p.m.
  27. August 23, 2026 Williamsburg Brooklyn Brewery's last night at 79 N. 11th St. is Aug. 29 before it moves four blocks to 1 Wythe Ave.
  28. August 23, 2026 Brownsville A 44-year-old employee was shot in the head and killed behind the counter of a wings shop on Rockaway Avenue; a second man was wounded.
  29. August 22, 2026 Downtown Party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's rules change would let former chair Clarence Norman, who resigned in 2005 after a corruption conviction, keep voting on party leadership forever, critics say.
  30. August 22, 2026 Gowanus Parents at P.S. 372 are demanding Gov. Hochul's resignation after air testing found cancer-causing chemicals seeping into the school basement for two and a half years with no fix in place before classes resume.
  31. August 22, 2026 Gravesend The MTA installed three new elevators at the 107-year-old Kings Highway F station, a $72 million project delayed by how little room the century-old structure left to work with.
  32. August 22, 2026 A Third Cyclist Killed by a Hit-and-Run Driver in Three Days — *New York has now lost three cyclists to drivers who didn't stop, all in the same week.* Top story
  33. August 21, 2026 Party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn moved to expand the Brooklyn Democratic Party's voting membership from 42 to more than 68 seats days before a leadership vote she could lose, a plan reform-aligned district leaders call a power grab.
  34. August 21, 2026 A Crown Heights mother was fatally stabbed at her own barbecue after refusing a former date's advances, in front of her 7-year-old son, police say.
  35. August 21, 2026 Brooklyn Latin School was ranked New York State's top high school by U.S. News, beating every other school in the city and state.
  36. August 20, 2026 Downtown Brooklyn Nine Democratic district leaders demanded Carmella Charrington's resignation over a video invoking antisemitic conspiracy theories, while her allies accuse party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn of exploiting the flap to save her own job.
  37. August 20, 2026 Gravesend The MTA opened three new elevators at the 107-year-old Kings Highway F station after a $72 million project, the fifth stop made accessible under its latest accessibility package.
  38. August 20, 2026 Greenpoint Brooklyn Brewery is leaving its 30-year Williamsburg home for a space four times larger on Wythe Avenue this fall, with a farewell party at the original taproom Aug. 29.
  39. August 20, 2026 Two cyclists killed in one day reopen the fight over New York's deadliest streets — *A driver ran over a 29-year-old e-bike rider and fled. Hours later, a second cyclist died in the Bronx.* Top story
  40. August 19, 2026 A woman was fatally stabbed in Crown Heights' Lincoln Terrace Park after a dispute; police are still hunting a shirtless suspect.
  41. August 19, 2026 Boerum Hill's fire-damaged 1890s church sold for $28.25 million to a developer planning to demolish it.
  42. August 18, 2026 Crown Heights/Canarsie Sofronie Hartzog, a mother of five, was fatally shot outside a Crown Heights club early Sunday; a woman was grazed by a stray bullet in Canarsie the next afternoon, the third bystander shooting in the borough within 48 hours.
  43. August 18, 2026 Williamsburg Hermès is set to open its permanent Brooklyn flagship on North 6th Street this fall, joining Chanel and Zara on a strip where asking retail rents hit $600 a square foot.
  44. August 18, 2026 Red Hook An affordable-housing lottery opened for a 369-unit building at Columbia Commons, the development tied to a bribery indictment of a former Adams advisor, with studios starting at $777 a month.
  45. August 18, 2026 Flatbush's immigrant businesses are losing their walk-ins — *A Flatbush spa that used to get five to ten walk-ins a day is down to about four visitors a week, and the owner blames fear nobody can quite point to.* Top story
  46. August 17, 2026 Crown Heights A stray bullet fired during a 100-person brawl outside the Ooh La La Lounge killed Sofronie Hartzog, 33, a mother of five, as she ran for help into the bar's bathroom.
  47. August 16, 2026 Greenpoint Assemblymember Emily Gallagher said shoplifters stealing "biological need" items like soap and toothpaste shouldn't be prosecuted, drawing fire from Council colleagues who call it a green light for retail theft.
  48. August 16, 2026 President Trump endorsed Saritha Komatireddy against Attorney General Letitia James, tying his years-long feud with James to her November reelection bid.
  49. August 16, 2026 Prospect Heights The state finally released its memorandum of understanding for Pacific Park's next phase, a Brooklyn megaproject that's grown to 9.6 million square feet and 8,800 units with towers up to 799 feet tall.
  50. August 15, 2026 The City Council made roadway dining sheds a year-round fixture, ending restaurants' annual teardown-and-storage ritual.
  51. August 15, 2026 Brooklyn's asking rents hit a record median of $4,500 as inventory drops, Brownstoner reports.
  52. August 14, 2026 Bike Plant, a Bed-Stuy bike shop, marked its first year as a worker-owned cooperative, one of a tripling number citywide since 2014.
  53. August 14, 2026 A Boerum Hill developer paid $28.25 million for a fire-damaged 1890s Romanesque Revival church it plans to demolish for apartments.
  54. August 14, 2026 NineDot will break ground on a Bushwick battery storage facility meant to ease the blackouts that have hit Bushwick Houses' elevators.
  55. August 13, 2026 Little Caribbean Council Member Farah Louis and volunteers canvassed hair salons and hardware stores to reach the roughly 40,000 Haitian TPS holders in the city now navigating life without legal status.
  56. August 13, 2026 Coney Island Two men were indicted on 88 counts, including attempted murder, for spraying gunfire into a July 4 barbecue that wounded eight people and killed a six-year-old's puppy.
  57. August 12, 2026 Bay Ridge A 170-year-old Catholic monastery campus on Ridge Boulevard sold to Brooklyn investors for $42.25 million, its likely fate a major residential or mixed-use tower.
  58. August 12, 2026 Bushwick A 4.9-megawatt battery storage facility breaking ground near Bushwick Houses will store enough power for 5,000 homes and help prevent the blackouts that have knocked out elevators there.
  59. August 11, 2026 Little Caribbean Restaurant owner Wesly Simon says sales are down 40 to 60% after losing half his kitchen staff to the Haitian TPS cutoff.
  60. August 11, 2026 Canarsie A 30-year-old man was shot dead on Canarsie Pier early Sunday; police say a dispute preceded it.
  61. August 11, 2026 Brownsville/East New York NYCHA tenants sued the city, alleging the NYPD secretly tapped public housing camera feeds through a free Wi-Fi program.
  62. August 10, 2026 Canarsie A 30-year-old man was shot dead in an argument at Canarsie Pier early Sunday; no arrests have been made.
  63. August 9, 2026 The Nets face a Tuesday deadline that could shape whether Michael Porter Jr. gets a contract extension or stays tradeable through the season.
  64. August 8, 2026 Marine Park Brooklyn Democrats nominated four judicial candidates, including Hemalee Patel and Sherveal Mimes, for state Supreme Court seats at their party convention.
  65. August 8, 2026 Brownsville/East New York Tenants at NYCHA's Tilden and Hughes Houses sued the city, alleging the NYPD secretly got real-time access to public housing camera feeds through a free-internet program.
  66. August 8, 2026 Bushwick Federal prosecutors sought pretrial detention for the man charged with burning down the 1853 South Bushwick Reformed Church, citing a notebook with violent writings found on him.
  67. August 7, 2026 Bedford-Stuyvesant A middle school teacher was fired after investigators substantiated that he exposed himself on a recorded parent-teacher call and masturbated in his classroom.
  68. August 7, 2026 East New York A housing lottery opened for 209 affordable apartments in the Alafia development on the former Brooklyn Developmental Center campus, with studios from $830 a month.
  69. August 7, 2026 Greenpoint Olivia Rodrigo sold out a surprise 1,000-capacity show at Warsaw within two hours of announcing it, charging just $25 a ticket.
  70. August 6, 2026 Bushwick Federal prosecutors charged Brooklyn's John Jones, 24, with arson for the June 19 fire that gutted the 173-year-old South Bushwick Reformed Church and toppled its steeple.
  71. August 6, 2026 Canarsie/citywide Brooklyn logged just two homicides in July, a record 29-day murder-free stretch, as citywide murders hit 149 so far this year, the lowest on record.
  72. August 6, 2026 Little Haiti A Haitian restaurant on Nostrand Avenue laid off eight of its 13 workers after the Supreme Court cleared the end of Haitian TPS, as nurses warn of a coming healthcare-worker shortage.
  73. August 5, 2026 Brooklyn logged just two homicides in July and a 29-day murder-free stretch, the longest in the borough's recorded history.
  74. August 5, 2026 The Parks Department has turned a Sunset Park entrance into an unofficial trash-staging dump, drawing complaints of rats and stench from neighbors.
  75. August 4, 2026 Greenpoint The City Council's final passage of the Monitor Point rezoning clears three towers and 662 affordable apartments on MTA-owned waterfront land, plus $60 million for a G train ADA upgrade.
  76. August 3, 2026 Brooklyn Bridge A naked 44-year-old man hung flags atop the bridge's north tower and jumped into the East River, surviving after an NYPD Harbor Unit rescue.
  77. August 3, 2026 Williamsburg Slate Property Group and RiseBoro unveiled 312 rental units across two towers, with 60% reserved for formerly homeless New Yorkers, after buying the sites from Two Trees for $2.
  78. August 3, 2026 Downtown Brooklyn UNESCO and the City Council both formally recognized Konpa this year even as Brooklyn's Haitian nightclub scene that built the genre keeps closing, columnist Garry Pierre-Pierre writes.
  79. August 2, 2026 Bay Ridge NYPD and Mexican authorities are hunting Misal Cruz across the border for the June slashing death of bartender Maria Santos Flores, found with her throat cut on 85th Street.
  80. August 2, 2026 Borough Park Police are investigating the death of a 2-month-old girl found unconscious at a 48th Street address that also houses a day care.
  81. August 2, 2026 Boerum Hill Permits were filed for a 16-story, 99-unit building at 546 Pacific Street, a block from the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center subway hub.
  82. August 2, 2026 Flatbush A housing lottery opened for three studios at 729 Rogers Avenue renting from $2,022 a month, open to households earning up to $108,560.
  83. August 1, 2026 Bensonhurst Tenants at a 32-unit building with 113 open violations formed a city-backed union after their landlord ignored years of complaints.
  84. August 1, 2026 Sunset Park Green-Wood Cemetery landed $4 million in Council funding for a new entrance and bike lane after 97 crashes injured 128 people nearby in five years.
  85. July 31, 2026 Greenpoint The Kent Avenue bike lane, unchanged since 2009, now carries nearly 300 daily cyclists past 196 cars at N. Fourth Street, and advocates want the street car-free.
  86. July 31, 2026 Downtown The City Council added $750,000 to the Brooklyn DA's Hate Crimes Bureau after hearings found it had a fraction of Manhattan and Queens' funding as antisemitic incidents rose 9%.
  87. July 31, 2026 Williamsburg A sewage overflow during the July 18 storm filled Black Spring Books' basement with three feet of water, ruining rare first editions.
  88. July 30, 2026 Sunset Park Green-Wood Cemetery landed $4 million in Council funding to design a protected bike lane and new entrance along its long-neglected southern border.
  89. July 30, 2026 East New York Only 13 of the 170 workers hired for the $400 million Broadway Junction transit overhaul come from the surrounding neighborhoods, elected officials say, far short of the promised 20%.
  90. July 29, 2026 Williamsburg Sewage flooding during the July 18 storm destroyed part of the collection at Black Spring Books; owner Simona Blat has raised about $17,000 on GoFundMe as she weighs the store's future.
  91. July 28, 2026 Council Member Lincoln Restler welcomed rat-proof "Empire Bins" arriving in Downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights this fall, the borough's second neighborhood after Manhattan's CB9.
  92. July 28, 2026 Public defenders at Neighborhood Defender Services, which also serves the Bronx, struck last week in the same wave that hit Brooklyn Defender Services for five days before a tentative deal.
  93. July 27, 2026 Prospect Heights Council Member Crystal Hudson and the Sanitation Department are piloting a one-less-day alternate-side parking schedule, betting drivers comply more if the trade-off sticks.
  94. July 27, 2026 Crown Heights A developer filed permits for a 99-unit, 12-story rental building at 566 Grand Avenue near the Franklin Avenue C station.
  95. July 27, 2026 This week's most-clicked listings ranged from a $595,000 East New York row house to a $9.85 million Clinton Hill palazzo, per Brownstoner.
  96. July 26, 2026 Fort Greene/Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Two cab drivers were shot in the face during robberies two weeks apart, prompting the state's taxi-driver federation to demand in-cab cameras.
  97. July 26, 2026 Williamsburg Slate Property Group and RiseBoro secured financing for 312 affordable and supportive units on two sites bought from Two Trees for $2, with 60% reserved for formerly homeless tenants.
  98. July 25, 2026 On-street trash containers are coming to Downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, DUMBO, and four more Community Board 2 neighborhoods this fall.
  99. July 25, 2026 Landlord Spigro Management will pay $23,500 in penalties and up to $1,200 each to four tenants it illegally locked out, per an AG James settlement.
  100. July 25, 2026 NY hardcore icon Lou Koller, frontman of Sick of It All, died at 59 after a battle with esophageal cancer.
  101. July 24, 2026 Downtown Brooklyn The MTA finished a $160 million, five-year rebuild of the 118-year-old Borough Hall subway station, adding three elevators after a 2018 ceiling collapse injured a rider.
  102. July 24, 2026 The public defenders who struck for five days at Brooklyn Defender Services reached a tentative contract with a higher wage floor, stronger benefits and remote-work terms.
  103. July 23, 2026 East Flatbush ICE vehicles were spotted patrolling Little Haiti as Haitian TPS work permits lapse Friday; Council Member Farrah Louis told residents "you have rights".
  104. July 23, 2026 Downtown The MTA finished a five-year, $106 million rebuild of the Borough Hall station, replacing the ceiling that partly collapsed on a woman in 2018.
  105. July 23, 2026 About 500 Brooklyn Defender Services attorneys ended their strike with a deal dropping a location-tracking app, the union's first contract win under Mamdani.
  106. July 23, 2026 East New York/Crown Heights Drivers killed three pedestrians in one weekend despite the city's fifth-safest year for traffic deaths on record, and advocates demanded Mamdani's unreleased Vision Zero report.
  107. July 22, 2026 Fort Greene Miami's Casa Tua will open an Italian food hall inside the landmarked banking hall of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in 2027.
  108. July 22, 2026 East New York Gunfire outside a Pennsylvania Avenue McDonald's wounded three teenagers just before midnight Monday; no arrests yet.
  109. July 22, 2026 Canarsie Court filings allege Brooklyn Democratic power broker Frank Seddio deliberately misspelled names in a lawsuit to hide that indicted fraud suspect Sam Sprei, who pays him up to $10,000 a week, was really behind it.
  110. July 21, 2026 Brooklyn Heights Rent-stabilized tenants at the 1890s Riverside Apartments rallied against landlord Pinnacle Group over rent hikes as steep as 400% and a monthslong rodent-mite infestation.
  111. July 21, 2026 Crown Heights A Brooklyn developer is turning a shuttered nightclub into a 50-unit residential project.
  112. July 21, 2026 Williamsburg Mesiba, the Eastern Mediterranean restaurant inside the Moxy Hotel known for its communal lamb-neck dinners, served its last guests.
  113. July 20, 2026 Park Slope Kay's Place, 44 affordable apartments named for a nun who spent decades trying to build housing on the site before her 2020 death, finished construction on 4th Avenue.
  114. July 19, 2026 Greenpoint The City Council gave final approval to Monitor Point, Gotham Organization's 1,324-unit waterfront project with 662 affordable apartments; the MTA will spend $60 million making the Nassau Avenue G station ADA accessible.
  115. July 19, 2026 Bushwick The Department of Buildings reversed itself and paused demolition of the fire-gutted South Bushwick Reformed Church through the weekend as FDNY marshals investigate the blaze as arson.
  116. July 18, 2026 Greenpoint The Council gave Gotham Organization's Monitor Point its final go-ahead, 1,324 apartments on MTA land with 662 set aside as affordable and a widened public esplanade.
  117. July 18, 2026 Crown Heights/Bed-Stuy Reform-minded Brooklyn Democrats flipped eight of nine contested district leader races in June, giving them the votes this fall to oust county chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.
  118. July 18, 2026 About 500 Brooklyn Defender Services and Queens Defenders staff struck over wages, sick time and a location-tracking app, disrupting representation in both boroughs' criminal courts.
  119. July 17, 2026 Greenpoint The Council gave final approval to Monitor Point, Gotham Organization's 1,324-unit waterfront project on MTA land, with 662 affordable apartments and a widened public esplanade.
  120. July 17, 2026 About 500 public defenders and staff at Brooklyn Defender Services and Queens Defenders went on strike over wages, sick time and a location-tracking app, threatening delays in Brooklyn and Queens courts.
  121. July 16, 2026 The city halted demolition of Bushwick's fire-gutted, 1853 South Bushwick Reformed Church at the last minute, giving the congregation until July 18 to save its landmarked Fellowship Hall as fire marshals investigate the blaze as arson.
  122. July 16, 2026 The Marlboro Houses in Gravesend opened the city's first playground built from 400,000 recycled wine and champagne corks, cooler underfoot than rubber on a 90-degree day.
  123. July 15, 2026 Brownsville ICE agents brought an injured detainee to Brookdale Hospital and left masked despite state law, on two flattened tires after activists slashed them.
  124. July 15, 2026 Downtown Roughly 500 Brooklyn Defender Services staff authorized a Thursday strike over pay and sick time as contract talks stall.
  125. July 15, 2026 Red Hook A 371-unit all-affordable building finished construction at 498 Columbia Street, reserved for low-income families, seniors and formerly homeless New Yorkers.
  126. July 14, 2026 Greenpoint Gotham Organization's Monitor Point, 1,324 waterfront apartments with 662 affordable, heads to a full Council vote July 16 after Council Member Lincoln Restler held it to a 50% affordability floor.
  127. July 14, 2026 Hand recounts are underway in three tight primaries, including a 15-vote Manhattan Assembly race and a 2-vote Queens Assembly race.
  128. July 14, 2026 Coney Island A state senator is demanding emergency Riegelmann Boardwalk repairs now, warning residents can't wait for a $1 billion rebuild that won't finish until 2032.
  129. July 13, 2026 Bushwick Investigators haven't ruled out arson in the fire that gutted the 173-year-old South Bushwick Reformed Church last month and are eyeing a person seen fleeing the scene on video.
  130. July 13, 2026 The Nets signed 3-and-D guard Keon Ellis to a two-year, $18 million deal, betting his defense fills a hole in a crowded backcourt.
  131. July 13, 2026 Utica Avenue's Bus Promise, Try Number Four — *New York has tried to fix Brooklyn's busiest bus route since 1951; this round comes with paint, not steel.* Top story
  132. July 12, 2026 Park Slope/Windsor Terrace A 250-apartment project at the Arrow Linen site sits stalled 17 months after Council Member Shahana Hanif won a rare deal preserving its full unit count, as the developer struggles to finance the affordable units he promised.
  133. July 12, 2026 East New York A third phase of the all-affordable Alafia complex in Spring Creek, backed by $124 million in new state financing, will add 273 units near Shirley Chisholm State Park.
  134. July 11, 2026 Coney Island/Brighton Beach State Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton is demanding emergency repairs to the Riegelmann Boardwalk's broken planks and exposed nails while the city's $1 billion reconstruction sits years away.
  135. July 11, 2026 Brownsville Police are hunting a man who stabbed a 44-year-old stranger in the back on a Sutter Avenue subway staircase in an apparently random attack.
  136. July 11, 2026 Little Haiti/Flatbush A federal court order keeps Haitian TPS holders' work permits valid through July 24 while litigation over the Supreme Court's ruling continues.
  137. July 10, 2026 Coney Island Police arrested Robert Smith, 44, in the July 4 mass shooting that wounded eight people, including four children, at a Surf Avenue barbecue.
  138. July 10, 2026 Downtown An NYPD officer assigned to the department's Legal Bureau, Joshua Acosta, was arrested and charged with raping a child relative over several years.
  139. July 10, 2026 Downtown Hundreds rallied at Borough Hall demanding Congress extend Temporary Protected Status before Haitian work permits lapse Friday.
  140. July 10, 2026 Red Hook The Red Hook Pool missed its summer opening for the second year running after flooded filters were found two days before its planned debut.
  141. July 10, 2026 North Brooklyn Manufacturers warn a city budget cut to the Industrial Business Service Providers program will strip local nonprofits of funding that helps factories navigate relocation grants and code violations.
  142. July 10, 2026 Next Stop, Fast Buses, Better Service — *Six minutes back on your commute, and the free part of "fast and free" pushed to some other day.* Top story
  143. July 9, 2026 Coney Island Police arrested a man in connection with the July 4 mass shooting at Coney Island that wounded eight people, including four children.
  144. July 9, 2026 Sheepshead Bay The senior center at 1960 East 7th Street, which served the neighborhood for more than two decades, has permanently closed, eliminating the communal meals, social programs, and health services it provided to elderly residents.
  145. July 9, 2026 Downtown Developers announced a mixed-use project called BKX to redevelop the Macy's building at 422 Fulton Street with housing and retail.
  146. July 9, 2026 Greenpoint The owner of Peter Pan Donuts, a neighborhood institution on Manhattan Avenue since 1953, has died; the shop plans to remain open.
  147. July 9, 2026 BQE The city posted a job listing for a "BQE Project Director" to lead the reconstruction of the triple-cantilever section of the expressway, the aging stretch over the Brooklyn Heights Promenade that has defied a fix for decades.
  148. July 8, 2026 Coney Island A grandmother whose eight family members were shot at a 4th of July barbecue interrupted Mayor Mamdani at a vigil Tuesday: "They shot our babies. This has to stop." The gunman remains at large.
  149. July 8, 2026 The MTA released a contract for more than $100 million to add elevators at five more inaccessible stations, Neptune Ave (F), 18th Ave (N), Jefferson St (L), Nostrand Ave (C), Fort Hamilton Pkwy (D), funded in part by congestion pricing.
  150. July 8, 2026 Saint Vitus, the underground punk and metal bar, is reopening in Bushwick.
  151. July 8, 2026 25 Years in the Wrong Cell — *Brian Kendall was a skinny 16-year-old. Eyewitnesses consistently described the shooter as a heavyset man in his mid-20s. Brooklyn detectives built a murder case against Kendall anyway.* Top story
  152. July 7, 2026 Coney Island Twelve people were shot across July 4th celebrations, including a 6-year-old boy struck in the chest at a Coney Island mass shooting.
  153. July 7, 2026 Red Hook A new Red Hook rental is opening a lottery for 239 affordable apartments starting at $777 a month.
  154. July 7, 2026 East Flatbush The state attorney general charged a man with stealing an elderly owner's East Flatbush home through deed theft.
  155. July 7, 2026 An NYPD detective shot in Brooklyn last weekend may have been hit by friendly fire from his own partner, police say.
  156. July 6, 2026 Crown Heights Detective Robert Karroll was shot in the back of his ballistic vest when a gunman approached an unmarked NYPD vehicle on Rogers Avenue while officers were on a July 4 security detail; an 18-year-old suspect was arrested blocks away.
  157. July 6, 2026 Greenpoint The Newtown Creek Alliance deployed TINA, a 600-gallon tank of 500 ribbed mussels built with a $12,000 Con Edison grant, to filter heavy metals and bacteria from the federal Superfund site that divides Brooklyn and Queens.
  158. July 6, 2026 Crown Heights Permits were filed for a five-story, 100-unit rental building at 721 Lincoln Place, near the Nostrand Avenue 3 train, with developer Jacob Schwimmer of JCS Realty listed as the applicant.
  159. July 5, 2026 Coney Island Joey Chestnut ate 66 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win his 18th Nathan's Famous Fourth of July title at the Surf and Stillwell flagship; Miki Sudo took the women's crown with 38.75, her 12th.
  160. July 5, 2026 Sunset Park A federal complaint against an inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center describes other prisoners, including Alexander brother Oren, using a contraband cellphone; all three brothers, convicted of sex trafficking in March, await sentencing there in October.
  161. July 5, 2026 Eight shot at Coney Island fireworks Top story
  162. July 4, 2026 Coney Island Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo return this morning to defend their Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest titles on Surf Avenue.
  163. July 4, 2026 Red Hook A housing lottery opened for 88 affordable units at 498 Columbia Street (Columbia Commons 1); income-qualified applicants apply through NYC Housing Connect.
  164. July 4, 2026 Bushwick Saint Vitus Bar is reopening at 428 Troutman Street this fall, moving the metal and punk venue out of its longtime Greenpoint home.
  165. July 4, 2026 Barclays Center The Liberty host the Minnesota Lynx tonight in a WNBA Finals rematch, fresh off a win over Las Vegas on Thursday.
  166. July 3, 2026 Days after the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration's authority to wind down Temporary Protected Status for some immigrant groups, Haitian New Yorkers in Little Haiti are asking what comes next for the roughly 200,000 Haitians who held TPS.
  167. July 3, 2026 Red Hook Pool closed for the second consecutive summer after its filtration plant flooded two days before the July 27 opening, motors and equipment were damaged, leaving residents to travel more than a mile to the next nearest pool while the heat index topped 100°F; the recreation center itself had to temporarily close Thursday due to indoor heat.
  168. July 3, 2026 Ground broke this week on a $550 million, 50-story tower at 205 Montague St. in Brooklyn Heights, on the site of the old Brooklyn Dodgers headquarters where Jackie Robinson signed; at 672 feet it will be Brooklyn's third-tallest building, with a jazz club, 46 condos starting at $5.9 million, and 90 rentals.
  169. July 3, 2026 The new city budget preserved NYCBenefits, an $11.7 million program that helps low-income New Yorkers navigate SNAP, Medicaid, and other public benefits.
  170. July 2, 2026 Prospect Lefferts Gardens Eva Volmar, who poured $580,000 of her savings into building out her Haitian-French restaurant La Cachette du Coin at 625 Rogers Avenue, says landlord Nigel Boyden of Kingsdel Real Estate is trying to displace her now that the space is renovated and newly viral; her next court date is August 25.
  171. July 2, 2026 Williamsburg Pacha, the Ibiza-born club brand, opened at the former Brooklyn Mirage site; unlike the city's camera-shy underground clubs, it wants you to film everything, a choice that has already drawn derision from the local nightlife set.
  172. July 2, 2026 Brooklyn Paper launched "Step into Brooklyn," a walking tour and 10-video series tracing the borough's Revolutionary War sites from Fort Greene Park south to Gravesend Bay, timed to America250.
  173. July 2, 2026 Fort Greene/Crown Heights area P.S. Weekly, the student journalism podcast from Chalkbeat and The Bell, wrapped its third season with a live event at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Branch, featuring high school reporters who investigated school mergers, admissions equity, sports access, and teacher diversity.
  174. July 2, 2026 East New York A City Limits op-ed argues the city is falling behind on building borough-based jails to replace Rikers, putting the 2027 closure deadline at risk and blocking the Renewable Rikers clean energy plan for the 400-acre island site.
  175. June 30, 2026 Brooklyn Heights Demolition is complete at 205 Montague Street, once home to the Brooklyn Dodgers' offices; a 47-story, 672-foot tower with 90 rentals, 46 condos averaging 2,100 square feet, and a rooftop jazz club is now under construction, with completion anticipated in 2029.
  176. June 30, 2026 Williamsburg Mayor Mamdani showed up at Toñita Fest Saturday to shout "Yo soy Boricua" from the main stage and present a framed Puerto Rican flag skirt to María Antonia "Toñita" Cay, who has kept her Caribbean Social Club open for 52 years while turning down millions to sell the building.
  177. June 30, 2026 Navy Yard area A 1,500-unit mixed-use complex at 240 Nassau Street near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, including a new K-8 school, 300 affordable units, and a Cultural Museum of African Art outpost, enters the public review process next month.
  178. June 30, 2026 Prospect Heights/Flatbush Empire State Development pitched a $5 billion plan to finally deck the Pacific Park railyards on Atlantic Avenue and complete the project, adding 5,600-plus units including 1,200 income-restricted homes; the Atlantic Yards plan was first announced in 2003 with Frank Gehry and Jay-Z.
  179. June 30, 2026 Bed-Stuy/Fort Greene Gotham Professional Arts Academy chemistry teacher Rayhan Ahmed won a $25,000 FLAG Award for teaching excellence after building a curriculum around the Flint water crisis and PFAS contamination, taking students to Washington to present findings to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's office.
  180. June 30, 2026 Brownsville The Nets introduced top draft pick Mikel Brown Jr., the 6-foot-4 point guard from Louisville taken sixth overall, who called himself a "savant" of the game in his first press conference and told 85 children at his introduction that Julius Randle said: "We're gonna shock the world."
  181. June 29, 2026 Vinegar Hill Alloy Development's 240 Nassau Street proposal, 1,500 rental apartments, 300 affordable, a new K-8 public school, and a home for the Cultural Museum of African Art, enters the ULURP public review process next month. The site was the Madison Square Boys' and Girls' Club Navy Yard Clubhouse before Alloy bought it in 2023.
  182. June 29, 2026 Coney Island Joey Chestnut returns to defend his Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Championship title at Surf and Stillwell on July 4 at noon, chasing his world record of 76. Miki Sudo defends the women's title. The contest has run at Coney Island since 1916.
  183. June 29, 2026 Bay Ridge Dozens of tall ships from 46 countries pass through the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge beginning at 9:30 a.m. on July 4 as part of Sail4th 250, with Blue Angels at 10:15 a.m. Bay Ridge gets the best water-level view in the city.
  184. June 29, 2026 Greenwood Heights Green-Wood Cemetery runs full-day America250 programming July 4, including a trolley tour on "Brooklyn's Black Trailblazers" honoring Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grace Nail Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson. Walking tours and family trolley rides run from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
  185. June 29, 2026 Dumbo Time Out Market is hosting a rooftop Fourth of July party, 5 to 11 p.m., ticketed, with DJ Fatfingaz and a front-row view of Macy's fireworks from 55 Water Street. Portions of Water and Old Fulton streets close to traffic.
  186. June 29, 2026 Flatbush/Barclays area Mikal Bridges, the Knicks acquisition that cost a record-setting draft pick haul and drew years of scrutiny, is an NBA champion. A Posting and Toasting profile traced his path from Phoenix to Brooklyn to the title, noting he absorbed pressure that would have broken most players.
  187. June 29, 2026 Barclays Center The Nets introduce three draft picks Monday at the Brooklyn Basketball Training Center, including Micbael Brown Jr., 20 years old and already calling himself a future all-time great. Sean Marks will be at the podium.
  188. June 28, 2026 Fort Greene A demolition permit was issued for the Italianate manse on South Oxford Street after it sold to a developer for $11 million; one of the neighborhood's most distinctive yellow landmarks is coming down.
  189. June 28, 2026 Bushwick Fire destroyed the steeple and most of the roof of the Reformed Church of South Bushwick at 855 Bushwick Avenue, a historic 19th-century structure; the top half of the building is gone.
  190. June 28, 2026 Gowanus An affordable housing lottery opened for a 14-story building on 4th Avenue with five two-bedroom apartments at $1,238 a month, a direct product of the Gowanus rezoning.
  191. June 28, 2026 Brooklyn Heights Adam Driver paid $11.5 million for three sixth-floor units at The Standish condo conversion in Brooklyn Heights, more than $3,200 per square foot, and listed his nearby three-bedroom at 20 Henry Street for $5 million.
  192. June 28, 2026 Brooklyn Heights An Italianate brownstone at 194 Columbia Heights, vacant multifamily, dating to the early 1860s and unsold for nearly six decades, went to 194 Columbia Heights LLC for $15 million.
  193. June 28, 2026 Park Slope A permit was filed for a 117,939-square-foot, 14-story mixed-use building at 294 4th Avenue, with Fariba Makooi of Fischer + Makooi Architects as the applicant.
  194. June 28, 2026 Coney Island Brooklyn Cyclones beat Jersey Shore 6-5 in High-A action Friday, with John Bay hitting his 10th home run and catcher Ronald Hernandez reaching base four times.
  195. June 26, 2026 Bushwick The historic South Bushwick Reformed Church, which has stood at 855 Bushwick Avenue since 1853, will be mostly demolished after Friday's fire; the church plans to save Fellowship Hall and part of the north wall but raze the sanctuary, pending emergency plans the city is demanding be filed immediately. (Brownstoner)
  196. June 26, 2026 COPA, the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act that former Mayor Adams vetoed last year, was revived with a City Council majority and Mamdani's support; the bill would give community land trusts and other nonprofits a right of first offer on distressed multifamily buildings before they reach the open market. (City Limits)
  197. June 25, 2026 The Nets drafted Louisville guard Mikel Brown Jr. sixth overall at the 2026 NBA Draft, with GM Sean Marks calling him "dynamic" and praising "a chip on his shoulder," as the franchise looks to accelerate a rebuild that has now included multiple first-round picks in successive years.
  198. June 25, 2026 The city added five free World Cup Soccer Streets watch parties: Osborn Plaza in Brooklyn on June 26, with Fogo Azul performing before Norway vs. France, and Corona Plaza in Queens on July 15, with the Queensboro Dance Festival.
  199. June 23, 2026 The landmarked South Bushwick Reformed Church, on its corner since 1853, lost much of its sanctuary and its steeple to a Friday fire; the DOB issued a full vacate order, and the congregation, dating to 1654, has started a fundraiser and vows to rebuild.
  200. June 23, 2026 Allegations of deed theft erupted in the 59th Assembly District on the eve of the primary, where incumbent Jaime Williams, sued by her own mother-in-law in 2020 over a Flatlands home, faces challenger Jibreel Jalloh, who called for an independent investigation.

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