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  1. August 22, 2026 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.
  2. August 20, 2026 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.
  3. August 3, 2026 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.
  4. July 31, 2026 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%.
  5. July 24, 2026 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.
  6. July 23, 2026 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.
  7. July 15, 2026 Roughly 500 Brooklyn Defender Services staff authorized a Thursday strike over pay and sick time as contract talks stall.
  8. July 10, 2026 An NYPD officer assigned to the department's Legal Bureau, Joshua Acosta, was arrested and charged with raping a child relative over several years.
  9. July 10, 2026 Hundreds rallied at Borough Hall demanding Congress extend Temporary Protected Status before Haitian work permits lapse Friday.
  10. July 9, 2026 Developers announced a mixed-use project called BKX to redevelop the Macy's building at 422 Fulton Street with housing and retail.

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