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  1. August 30, 2026 Permits were filed for a six-story, six-unit condo building at 146 Meserole Avenue, near the Nassau Avenue G stop.
  2. August 20, 2026 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.
  3. August 16, 2026 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.
  4. August 7, 2026 Olivia Rodrigo sold out a surprise 1,000-capacity show at Warsaw within two hours of announcing it, charging just $25 a ticket.
  5. August 4, 2026 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.
  6. July 31, 2026 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.
  7. July 19, 2026 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.
  8. July 18, 2026 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.
  9. July 17, 2026 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.
  10. July 14, 2026 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.
  11. July 9, 2026 The owner of Peter Pan Donuts, a neighborhood institution on Manhattan Avenue since 1953, has died; the shop plans to remain open.
  12. July 6, 2026 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.

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