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  1. October 6, 2026 Chip City closed all 22 remaining locations, telling staff it no longer had the funding to operate.
  2. October 3, 2026 Shadowbox, now running Kaufman Astoria Studios after Deutsche Bank's foreclosure filing, promoted 43-year veteran Pete Romano to run operations.
  3. September 29, 2026 Developers filed to rezone 31-29 Vernon Blvd. for a 20-story, 402-unit complex with about 25% affordable.
  4. September 26, 2026 Developers filed to swap three industrial buildings at 31-29 Vernon Blvd., across from Socrates Sculpture Park, for a 20-story tower with 402 apartments, about 100 of them affordable.
  5. September 14, 2026 Permits were filed for a 13-story, 44-unit building at 41-14 29th Street near the Queens Plaza station.
  6. September 14, 2026 Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden defended a "9/11 Silent Disco for Unity & Support" promoted with an AI flier showing the wrong skyline.
  7. September 8, 2026 Hartley Bernstein, a securities lawyer disbarred in 1999 and reinstated in 2007, has now sued DOT five times in three boroughs over bike lanes on 31st Street, Court Street and West 72nd Street, and has yet to stop one.
  8. August 27, 2026 Two men were shot on Steinway Street in Little Egypt early Wednesday; the 114th Precinct has logged four shootings this year, down from nine at this point in 2025
  9. August 26, 2026 The city's draft housing plan asks Community District 1 to add 9,890 homes by 2030, the largest target of any district in Queens.
  10. August 23, 2026 A penthouse at Rowan II went into contract at $1,766 a square foot, a neighborhood record, before the building even opened.
  11. August 22, 2026 A penthouse at the Rowan II condo tower went into contract for $1,766 per square foot, the highest price ever recorded for an Astoria condo.
  12. August 8, 2026 Tenants pushed back after landlord groups sued the Rent Guidelines Board over June's rent freeze, calling the lawsuit a familiar public-relations tactic.
  13. August 8, 2026 Four shoppers were hurt when a 25-by-60-foot section of ceiling collapsed inside a City Fresh Market supermarket; the city ordered the building vacated.
  14. August 4, 2026 A $250 million loan clears the way for 560 mixed-income apartments and a rebuilt P.C. Richard & Son on Steinway Street.
  15. July 29, 2026 Tootles & French, named a USA Today Best New Restaurant finalist in 2025, is closing for good after nearly three years on Ditmars Boulevard, its owner citing the personal toll of running it.
  16. July 22, 2026 A woman was fatally stabbed in an apparent domestic dispute; her husband was found dead hours later in Astoria Park in an apparent suicide.
  17. July 21, 2026 The RFK Bridge marked 90 years since it opened for Olympic tryouts in 1936, a Depression-era project built with federal relief bonds after the city ran out of money.
  18. July 4, 2026 Elected officials broke ground July 3 on a battery energy storage facility at 24-51 49th Street, adding grid capacity the city badly needed this week.

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