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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. July 10, 2026 Downtown Hundreds rallied at Borough Hall demanding Congress extend Temporary Protected Status before Haitian work permits lapse Friday.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. July 8, 2026 Saint Vitus, the underground punk and metal bar, is reopening in Bushwick.
  18. 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
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. July 5, 2026 Eight shot at Coney Island fireworks Top story
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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."
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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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