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  1. October 14, 2026 Greenpoint The 40-story The Greenpoint ran on a roaring generator for a month after a Sept. 6 electrical fire; tenants paying up to $12,000 have filed 191 complaints since and one sued in housing court.
  2. October 14, 2026 Cobble Hill The city broke ground on a $17.8 million conversion of the Degraw Street firehouse, empty since 2003, into a music school for the Noel Pointer Foundation.
  3. October 13, 2026 Sheepshead Bay Financing closed on a $607 million gut renovation of NYCHA's Nostrand Houses, all 1,148 apartments, the first deal through the Public Housing Preservation Trust.
  4. October 13, 2026 Bus cameras on the B1, B6 and Q65 started mailing warnings Oct. 12; after 60 days, blocking a bus lane or stop costs $50, rising to $250.
  5. October 13, 2026 Williamsburg The north tower of Two Trees' 280 Kent Avenue, a 50-story, 1,262-unit Domino twin, is about two-thirds built.
  6. October 13, 2026 Brooklyn Heights Art of Play says the $15,000 singing bird Kelly Clarkson asked about is its wall-mounted mascot; Clarkson says a clerk quoted her the price and steered her to something "comparable".
  7. October 13, 2026 The Liberty's season ended 85-83 in Atlanta despite 26 points each from Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones.
  8. October 13, 2026 Trader Joe's takes Bay Ridge's old Century 21 — *Trader Joe's will anchor Century Marketplace, the 95,000-square-foot rebuild of the 86th Street Century 21 store that has sat empty since 2020.* Top story
  9. October 12, 2026 Flatbush The FDNY evacuated a building on Cortelyou Road between Ocean Avenue and East 21st Street after a manhole fire pushed carbon monoxide levels up; no injuries.
  10. October 12, 2026 Trader Joe's is coming to Bay Ridge — *Trader Joe's will anchor Century Marketplace on 86th Street, filling the Bay Ridge Century 21 that has sat empty since 2020.* Top story
  11. October 11, 2026 Park Slope The plain five-story apartment building replacing Grand Prospect Hall is nearly done, four years after the banquet hall was razed.
  12. October 11, 2026 Developers filed plans for just one 50-plus-unit condo project this year, versus 30 in 2018, and 71% of new condo plans are for buildings under 10 units.
  13. October 11, 2026 Gravesend Roughly 4,000 people lined up under the elevated D for the MTA's memorabilia sale, where three used subway seats went for $1,000 and Spike Lee bought a 34 St-Penn Station sign.
  14. October 10, 2026 Park Slope The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music opened a $17.8 million second campus at One Prospect Park West, home to its music therapy program serving more than 3,000 clients.
  15. October 10, 2026 Coney Island Parks is seeking an operator to run the Cyclone and display birthday and proposal messages on the Parachute Jump, though the solicitation does not bring back the ride, closed since 1964.
  16. October 9, 2026 Prospect Heights A pilot cutting alternate-side parking to once a week backfired; compliance fell from 73% to 62% and tickets doubled to 913, so it's over.
  17. October 9, 2026 Cobble Hill The firehouse at 299 DeGraw St., empty since 2003, starts a $17.8M conversion into the Noel Pointer Foundation's music school, due fall 2028.
  18. October 8, 2026 Cobble Hill The city broke ground on a $17.8 million conversion of the shuttered Engine 204 firehouse on DeGraw Street into a home for the Noel Pointer Foundation's free string programs.
  19. October 8, 2026 Windsor Terrace A contractor hit a high-pressure gas main at the Arrow Linen site on Prospect Avenue, forcing eight buildings to evacuate a week after Goose bought it for $55 million.
  20. October 7, 2026 Greenpoint Work began on the $40 million Box Street Park on Newtown Creek, a 2.5-acre park promised in the 2005 waterfront rezoning.
  21. October 7, 2026 Park Slope The 144-unit building replacing Grand Prospect Hall is nearly done; its 421-a units are pegged near 130% of area median income, a $4,738 two-bedroom.
  22. October 7, 2026 Bensonhurst Bay Parkway between 85th and 86th streets is now co-named Canton Avenue for the Chinese railroad workers and the Cantonese families who followed.
  23. October 7, 2026 Bus lanes for Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue — *DOT started painting bus lanes on Bay Parkway from Avenue J to Shore Parkway and on Cropsey Avenue to 26th Avenue, routes that carry 85,000 riders a day.* Top story
  24. October 6, 2026 Greenpoint Construction finally started on the $40 million, 2.5-acre Box Street Park at 65 Commercial Street, promised in the 2005 rezoning to replace an MTA lot; it is due summer 2028.
  25. October 6, 2026 Sheepshead Bay Nostrand Houses' 1,148 apartments get a $607 million gut renovation over five years, the first deal closed through the Public Housing Preservation Trust.
  26. October 6, 2026 Clinton Hill 374 Washington Avenue sold for $9.4 million, a neighborhood record.
  27. October 6, 2026 Bus and bike lanes for DeKalb and Lafayette — *DOT will put bus lanes and protected bike lanes on DeKalb and Lafayette avenues from Broadway to Flatbush Avenue this fall, for the B38's 18,000 daily riders.* Top story
  28. October 5, 2026 Dumbo Old Fulton Street is now also Patsy and Carol Grimaldi Way, after the couple who served coal-fired pies there from 1990 and came back in 2012 to open Juliana's.
  29. October 5, 2026 Downtown The city is adding two bus boarding islands to the Jay Street busway, on the stretch where cyclists, pedestrians and buses fight for space.
  30. October 5, 2026 A Gowanus lottery with $950 studios closes Oct. 26 — *The Cornice at 224 3rd Avenue in Gowanus is taking NYC Housing Connect applications for 20 of its 63 apartments, with studios from $950 a month.* Top story
  31. October 4, 2026 Gowanus Earthwork began at 175 Third Street, a 27-story Bjarke Ingels tower with more than 1,000 apartments, 250 of them affordable, plus a public esplanade on the canal.
  32. October 4, 2026 Bushwick Knicks guard Jose "GTA" Alvarado got a street co-naming at Knickerbocker Plaza, Knickerbocker and Myrtle avenues, a short walk from the Williamsburg blocks he grew up on.
  33. October 4, 2026 Bushwick In a state appeal over 219 Troutman Street, a landlord is fighting DHCR's order returning his gut-renovated walk-up to rent stabilization; the ruling will test the substantial-rehab rules.
  34. October 4, 2026 South Slope Permits are filed for an eight-story, 39-apartment building at 238 22nd Street on the corner of Fifth Avenue, near the R at 25th Street.
  35. October 3, 2026 Brownsville The $128 million Brownsville Multi-Service Center at 444 Thomas S. Boyland St. finished two years early and $10 million under budget, and will house Community Board 16.
  36. October 3, 2026 Coney Island The city is seeking a team to rebuild the Riegelmann Boardwalk from the piles up, with responses due Nov. 4.
  37. October 3, 2026 The A train dragging death and the conductor's sweep — *A Manhattan-bound A train dragged Yaw Boahene, 57, to his death at Utica Avenue; Gothamist reports the conductor told investigators he was unsure he kept his head out the window as the train left.* Top story
  38. October 2, 2026 Greenpoint Work began on the $40 million Box Street Park, a 2.5-acre waterfront park promised in the 2005 rezoning, due summer 2028.
  39. October 2, 2026 Sheepshead Bay NYCHA closed a $607 million deal to rebuild all 1,148 apartments at Nostrand Houses, the first job financed by the Public Housing Preservation Trust.
  40. October 2, 2026 Coney Island The city is hunting a design-build team for the $1 billion rebuild of the 2.7-mile Riegelmann Boardwalk.
  41. October 1, 2026 Crown Heights The NTSB is investigating Monday's death of Yaw Boahene, 57, dragged by an A train at Utica Avenue; the conductor and operator are off duty pending review.
  42. October 1, 2026 DUMBO New DOT renderings show the BQE bypass highway arching over the Brooklyn Bridge approach for at least a decade, with virtual feedback sessions starting Oct. 6 at 6 p.m.
  43. October 1, 2026 Crown Heights Neighbors of the Brooklyn Children's Museum say its rooftop party rentals, worth nearly $440,000 in 2024, rattle windows and closed the museum to kids 12 days this summer.
  44. October 1, 2026 Marine Park Runway Green signed a 60-year lease for a $60 million education campus at Floyd Bennett Field, with a public high school and a three-acre farm.
  45. October 1, 2026 Navy Yard Burlington leased 31,717 square feet at 25 Navy Street next to the Admirals Row Wegmans, opening fall 2027.
  46. October 1, 2026 Crown Heights A landlord at 1075 Dean St. settled with the attorney general and will give every tenant a rent-stabilized lease and repay overcharges.
  47. September 30, 2026 Prospect Lefferts Gardens Stucco and foam cladding blew off 61 Clarkson Ave. in the nor'easter and smashed onto the house next door, whose family is under a full vacate order until a sidewalk shed goes up.
  48. September 30, 2026 The J and M run split service on weekends from Oct. 17 through Nov. 23 while the MTA replaces switches last replaced in 1997, with shuttle buses between Myrtle Av-Broadway and Delancey St-Essex St.
  49. September 30, 2026 Crown Heights The landlord of 1075 Dean St. settled with AG Letitia James and will give every tenant a rent-stabilized lease.
  50. September 30, 2026 Park Slope Arrow Linen sold its rezoned Prospect Avenue site for $55 million to a buyer who filed plans for 396 units, up from the 250 the Council approved.
  51. September 30, 2026 Coney Island Moshe Braver filed ten 12-story buildings of 99 units or fewer each, below the 485-x tax break's 100-unit wage floor.
  52. September 30, 2026 Brownsville A new $128 million multi-service center at 444 Thomas Boyland St. finished two years early and $10 million under budget.
  53. September 30, 2026 Floyd Bennett Field Nonprofit Runway Green signed a 60-year lease for a seven-acre education campus, starting with a three-acre urban farm.
  54. September 30, 2026 The eighth-seeded Liberty swept the top-seeded Lynx, the first 8-over-1 series win in WNBA history.
  55. September 29, 2026 Prospect Park Hochul put $4 million toward the last phase of the $25 million lakeshore restoration, which adds rain gardens and accessible paths.
  56. September 29, 2026 The Liberty beat the top-seeded Lynx in Game 1 behind Breanna Stewart's 34 points and can close the series at Barclays Tuesday.
  57. September 29, 2026 The G train keeps its December weekends — *The MTA canceled three December weekend G shutdowns after finishing Newtown Creek tunnel repairs early, so Greenpoint's only subway runs through the holidays.* Top story
  58. September 29, 2026 Bichotte Hermelyn quits the Brooklyn Dem chair race and backs a successor — *After six years running the Brooklyn Democratic Party, Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn said on NY1 she won't seek another term, hours before Tuesday night's vote for chair.* Top story
  59. September 28, 2026 Gravesend Emerald Developers filed for a seven-story, 99-unit building at 2074 McDonald Avenue, right beside the Kings Highway F station.
  60. September 28, 2026 The nor'easter that closed the weekend — *A falling tree killed NYCHA supervisor Leighton Brown, 56, on an overtime shift at the Cypress Hills Houses, in the last week before his promotion took effect.* Top story
  61. September 27, 2026 Park Slope Safdie Architects released renderings for the Pacific Branch at Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street, Brooklyn's first Carnegie library, adding a skylight, a two-story solarium and an elevator; work starts next year.
  62. September 27, 2026 Williamsburg The attorney general dissolved a Gravesend expediting firm over illegal renovations in a partly rent-stabilized building and barred its architect from filing with the Buildings Department for life.
  63. September 27, 2026 The nor'easter's worst hits this morning — *A falling tree killed NYCHA worker Leighton Brown, 56, in East New York on Saturday, and the heaviest flooding is forecast around Sunday's 9 a.m. high tide.* Top story
  64. September 26, 2026 Brownsville Council Member Chris Banks will propose taking spitting off the list of ticketable offenses after video showed a spitting summons turn into an arrest; police ticketed spitting 549 times last fiscal year.
  65. September 26, 2026 The nor'easter that emptied the weekend calendar — *Gov. Hochul declared a state of emergency for the city, and the city put a travel advisory in place from Friday 2 p.m. through Sunday morning, with coastal flooding expected in southern Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn at high tide.* Top story
  66. September 25, 2026 Kensington Police charged Eric Avrutov with beating a 66-year-old rabbi on Dahill Road minutes after punching a man at a gas pump, two days after a judge released him on another assault.
  67. September 25, 2026 Crown Heights Sesame Flyers, a Carnival Mas band for 39 years, is sitting out next year's parade, saying costume bands get pushed behind sponsor and politicians' floats.
  68. September 23, 2026 Downtown A 24-year-old man was shot dead in McLaughlin Park, and three nearby schools got a shelter-in-place advisory.
  69. September 22, 2026 Bushwick A 26-year-old was stabbed in the face on the southbound C platform at Rockaway Avenue in an unprovoked attack.
  70. September 22, 2026 Flatbush Police and volunteers pulled nearly 300 live chickens from two abandoned U-Haul trucks on Winthrop Avenue during Kaporos week.
  71. September 22, 2026 Downtown The city will extend the Livingston Street busway west of Smith Street.
  72. September 22, 2026 Bay Ridge Council Member Kayla Santosuosso wants to rezone the auto-shop triangle from 86th to 95th streets before a voter-approved fast track strips Council veto power in January.
  73. September 21, 2026 Bushwick The Market Hotel was tagged "racist" after a promoter said it canceled his show over race; the venue says his event sold 40 tickets for a 500-person room.
  74. September 21, 2026 Crown Heights Chrissy Payne, 47, is charged with attempted kidnapping after police say she tried to walk a 4-year-old across Eastern Parkway outside a McDonald's.
  75. September 21, 2026 Downtown A Regional Plan Association report for Council Member Lincoln Restler says placard parking holds back the neighborhood and wants it fixed before the borough jail opens in 2029.
  76. September 21, 2026 Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote that sending her daughter to PS 307 and Urban Assembly Unison left the girl behind in high school, saying "I feel like you got cheated."
  77. September 20, 2026 Williamsburg Juliette, a North 5th Street restaurant of 20 years, burned Saturday as flames spread into two adjoining eateries and a smoke explosion about 35 minutes in forced a Mayday call.
  78. September 20, 2026 Flatbush Activists said they pulled 83 live chickens from an abandoned U-Haul marked "Kaparos To Go," with dozens more dead in crates in the truck bed, and the NYPD is looking for whoever left it there.
  79. September 20, 2026 Prospect Park Detectives released a sketch of a man who choked a 41-year-old woman and tried to rape her near Wellhouse Drive on Sept. 16.
  80. September 20, 2026 Crown Heights Chrissy Payne, 47, was arrested Friday night on attempted kidnapping charges after police say she grabbed a 4-year-old away from his grandmother outside a McDonald's on Eastern Parkway.
  81. September 20, 2026 Brooklyn Heights The 1909 Hotel Bossert will reopen as 62 Ritz-Carlton condos with a Danny Meyer restaurant on the ground floor, after Landmarks approved adding a 15th floor.
  82. September 20, 2026 Park Slope More than 61 percent of Park Slope homes sold above asking in August, the highest share in the city, as citywide inventory fell 5 percent year over year.
  83. September 18, 2026 Williamsburg The attorney general dissolved expediter Basic Group and barred architect Kevin McCray for life from DOB filings over illegal renovations at 191 Bedford Avenue.
  84. September 18, 2026 Prospect Heights Central Library opened a 4,700-square-foot teens-only center, the largest of any of BPL's 62 branches.
  85. September 17, 2026 Sheepshead Bay A woman's body was found in a trash can in the Plumb Beach parking lot off the Belt Parkway; the medical examiner will determine the cause.
  86. September 17, 2026 Bay Ridge Mauricio Granda, 47, was charged with murdering his wife Maria Ines Granda, 59, in their 79th Street home, and his mother was also arraigned on assault charges.
  87. September 17, 2026 Brownsville A B12/B14 shelter on Pitkin Avenue got a green roof that absorbs 16 gallons of rain, a pilot running through at least November.
  88. September 16, 2026 Bay Ridge Mauricio Granda, 47, was charged with murder after his wife, Maria Ines Granda, 59, was found dead on their couch on 79th Street.
  89. September 16, 2026 Brooklyn Heights the former Hotel Bossert at 98 Montague Street becomes Ritz-Carlton condos, 62 units plus a Union Square Hospitality Group restaurant, finishing in 2029.
  90. September 16, 2026 Williamsburg the 1870s Joseph Fallert Brewery on Meserole Street is nearly gone, making way for a 10-story, 99-apartment building.
  91. September 16, 2026 Park Slope Commissioner Tisch declined CCRB-recommended discipline for officers who shoved a cyclist blocking a sergeant from parking on the sidewalk by the 78th Precinct, Streetsblog reports.
  92. September 15, 2026 Borough Park A 22-year-old congregant slashed a 14-year-old boy's hand inside a synagogue on 54th Street and was taken into custody.
  93. September 15, 2026 Coney Island A lottery at 2905 West 17th Street offers one-bedrooms from $1,681 and two-bedrooms at $2,002; applications close Sept. 29.
  94. September 13, 2026 Downtown Brooklyn The Times added an editor's note to its Aug. 4 profile of a "Hoodwill" vendor outside the Bond Street Goodwill after the Post reported he is a Level 3 sex offender; Council Member Lincoln Restler says the vendors leave "an enormous mess every day"
  95. September 13, 2026 Prospect Park The 18th annual TEAL 5K raised awareness for ovarian cancer research
  96. September 13, 2026 Julius Randle hosted a back-to-school clinic for 75 kids at the Brooklyn Basketball Training Center and promised the Nets will "shock the world"
  97. September 12, 2026 Brownsville Two men, 33 and 35, were shot dead inside Howard Playground at Mother Gaston Boulevard and Glenmore Avenue Friday night, the 73rd Precinct's fourth and fifth murders of the year against three at this point in 2025.
  98. September 12, 2026 Bath Beach The NYPD Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad is investigating seven stray cats found dead under a deck near 86th Street and 16th Avenue; rescuers and state Sen. Steve Chan suspect rodenticide.
  99. September 12, 2026 Williamsburg Foundation work started at 159 Broadway beside the landmarked Williamsburgh Savings Bank, for a 12-story building with 99 apartments, one under the 100-unit line where the 485-x tax break imposes wage floors.
  100. September 11, 2026 Williamsburg Jayden Velasquez, 18, was shot dead on Havemeyer Street the night before his senior year began, one of at least 15 teenagers fatally shot in the city this year.
  101. September 11, 2026 Gowanus PS 372 moved pre-K and kindergarten out of its contaminated basement annex, and the DEC says installation of a new ventilation system has begun.
  102. September 11, 2026 Prospect Heights CTown and a new grocer, Atlantic Market, signed 20-year leases at 1042 and 880 Atlantic Avenue under the city's FRESH supermarket zoning program, both opening in 2027.
  103. September 11, 2026 Downtown A 46-year-old man arrested on a drug charge died after a medical emergency at Central Booking on Schermerhorn Street, the third such death there this year.
  104. September 11, 2026 Gravesend A $77.71 million, 553-seat middle school annex opened at 106 Avenue X, feeding John Dewey High School.
  105. September 11, 2026 Judge Jill Epstein, ruling soon on whether Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's party could rewrite its rules, owes her seat to the Brooklyn Democratic machine, Hell Gate reports.
  106. September 10, 2026 Downtown Judge Jill Epstein heard arguments Tuesday over whether the Brooklyn Democratic Party's outgoing executive committee could legally rewrite party rules; a ruling is expected within days, ahead of the Oct. 7 deadline to seat new leadership.
  107. September 10, 2026 Greenpoint DOT will install diverters on Driggs Avenue to end cut-through traffic outside P.S. 110, five years after parents first asked.
  108. September 10, 2026 Sunset Park The trash pile at the 41st Street park entrance caught fire Tuesday when a discarded lithium-ion battery ignited; the Sanitation Department has had 63 battery fires in its trucks this year.
  109. September 10, 2026 Williamsburg Attorney General Letitia James made developer Ezra Unger return $6.715 million in down payments he collected before his 427 Marcy Avenue offering plan was accepted, and barred him from selling property in New York for six years.
  110. September 9, 2026 Gravesend The $77.71 million John Dewey Annex opened at 106 Avenue X with 553 middle-school seats, one of 10 new school buildings adding 4,656 seats citywide this year.
  111. September 9, 2026 Crown Heights Deandre Creary, 25, was arraigned on murder in the August stabbing of Shakeema Davis at her own barbecue in Lincoln Terrace Park, and held without bail.
  112. September 9, 2026 Greenpoint DOT is laying the groundwork for traffic diverters to push cut-through drivers off Driggs Street beside P.S. 110.
  113. September 9, 2026 Williamsburg Clipper Equity sold the 150-unit Casa Hope at 130 Hope Street to the Mann Group for $122.5 million, with more than 30 years left on its 421-a abatement.
  114. September 9, 2026 Midwood Women's clothier Esti's signed a 10-year, 7,800-square-foot lease at Nostrand Avenue and Avenue I at $65 a foot, moving 2.1 miles north from Coney Island Avenue.
  115. September 8, 2026 Flatbush Haitian marchers took Eastern Parkway weeks after work permits tied to Haitian TPS expired July 27, a status roughly 163,000 Haitians in the metro area had relied on.
  116. September 8, 2026 Coney Island Five firefighters went to South Brooklyn Health with minor injuries after a two-alarm fire at an auto body shop at 3088 Cropsey Ave..
  117. September 8, 2026 Bushwick A large tree snapped at its base and fell across 1122 Decatur St. onto several cars; nobody was hurt.
  118. September 8, 2026 The West Indian American Day Parade ends early, and still ends in gunfire — *The city shortened Carnival, double-barricaded Eastern Parkway and flooded it with cops. Three people were shot anyway, and the people who come every year noticed both halves of that.* Top story
  119. September 7, 2026 Flatbush A 58-year-old man was killed when he stepped off the curb near Nostrand Avenue and Clarendon Road and was run over by the rear wheels of a departing B44 bus; the driver did not know she had hit him.
  120. September 7, 2026 East Flatbush Dancehall artist Michael Davey's 25-year-old son Christopher was fatally stabbed on Albany Avenue around the corner from home; police are looking for two men who left in a black sedan.
  121. September 7, 2026 Midwood New renderings show a nine-story, 225-unit building at 1214-1238 East 14th Street with 57 income-restricted homes; it needs a rezoning from M1-1 and R5 to R7A before anyone digs.
  122. September 7, 2026 East New York Permits were filed for a seven-story, 26-unit mixed-use building at 439 Liberty Avenue, near the C train's Liberty Avenue stop.
  123. September 7, 2026 Carnival returns to Eastern Parkway on a shorter clock — *The city's biggest street party keeps its route and loses its last half hour.* Top story
  124. September 6, 2026 East Flatbush Christopher Davey, 25, was stabbed twice in front of 882 Albany Ave. on his way to the laundromat and died at Kings County Hospital; police are looking for two men who drove off north in a black sedan
  125. September 6, 2026 Sheepshead Bay A 17-year-old set off the metal detector at the Frank J. Macchiarola complex on Avenue X with a handgun in his bag and fled before officers arrived; school safety staff recovered 57 weapons from city schools from January to June
  126. September 6, 2026 Windsor Terrace New developer Goose Property Management is planning a much bigger complex with only standard affordability on the Arrow Linen site, after neighbors spent a rezoning fight winning a low-rise, deeply affordable plan
  127. September 6, 2026 Bed-Stuy Permits were filed for a nine-story, 48-unit building at 862 Kent Ave., a block from the Myrtle-Willoughby Avenues G stop
  128. September 5, 2026 Crown Heights Three Dukler-family buildings carrying more than 1,000 open violations sold at a sheriff's auction, and tenants say the incoming owner has agreed to convert them into co-ops they could buy into for as little as $10,000.
  129. September 5, 2026 Sunset Park Seventeen people have been killed in crashes on Third Avenue since 2016, and the transportation department says it will bring a design plan to the local community board soon without naming a date.
  130. September 5, 2026 Williamsburg Attorney General James barred developer Ezra Unger from selling condos in New York for six years and secured $6.72 million back for buyers at 427 Marcy Avenue.
  131. September 5, 2026 East Williamsburg The Rosemont, the Montrose Avenue queer bar and drag stage of nearly a decade, says it has closed and likely will not reopen; a farewell blowout is being planned and a GoFundMe is running for its staff.
  132. September 5, 2026 Crown Heights Steel orchestra Pan in Motion, permitted to practice in a Prospect Heights school lot through Sept. 5, is fielding noise complaints days before Panorama at the Brooklyn Museum.
  133. September 4, 2026 Mill Basin Party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and Frank Seddio rewrote Brooklyn Democratic rules to expand the executive committee after reformers won a majority; Seddio is also a city elections commissioner.
  134. September 4, 2026 Williamsburg Attorney General James ordered developer Ezra Unger to return $6.715 million in down payments he took for 427 Marcy Avenue condos that had no offering plan.
  135. September 3, 2026 Downtown A judge adjourned the suit over Brooklyn Democratic chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's rule changes after three district leaders said they could not afford lawyers on 24 hours' notice; the party must elect a chair between Sept. 17 and Oct. 1.
  136. September 3, 2026 Red Hook The 1900 schooner Victory Chimes, the ship on the Maine state quarter, and the century-old Pilot are still sitting on the bottom off the Gowanus Canal two months after they sank at their dock.
  137. September 3, 2026 The Ashland Place bike lane is finally finished — *One block held up 5.5 miles of protected bike lane for three years. It got painted this week.* Top story
  138. September 2, 2026 Sunset Park State Sen. Andrew Gounardes, Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes and Council Member Alexa Aviles demanded DOT finally deliver the Third Avenue redesign shelved in 2025, days after nurse Jiayi Zheng was killed crossing at 55th Street; 11 pedestrians and cyclists have died on that two-mile stretch since 2014.
  139. September 2, 2026 Fort Greene DOT painted in the last missing block of the Ashland Place protected bike lane between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson Place, three years after the Adams administration cut it from the redesign.
  140. September 2, 2026 Park Slope A new developer at the Arrow Linen site plans four 10-story buildings with 396 apartments instead of the 250 pitched during the rezoning, with affordability dropping to the 25% legal minimum.
  141. September 2, 2026 Clinton Hill YS Developers has applied to demolish six of the 10 historic Mergenthaler Linotype buildings at 47 Hall Street, a complex the previous owner rezoned in order to reuse.
  142. September 1, 2026 Windsor Terrace A new developer at the Arrow Linen site plans four 10-story buildings with 396 apartments instead of the two buildings and 250 units pitched during the rezoning, holding the affordable count at 100 units, which drops the share from the 40% neighbors were promised to the 25% minimum the community benefits agreement actually requires.
  143. September 1, 2026 Greenpoint A fundraiser for the staff of Sereneco, gutted Friday by a fire in its kitchen walls on Franklin Street, has raised more than $9,000 toward $35,000; owner Billy Van Dolsen says all of it goes to employees and none to the rebuild.
  144. September 1, 2026 Sunset Park Launch Expeditionary Learning signed a 15-year lease for 77,000 square feet at 5902 Sixth Avenue, the full-block campus Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy left last June.
  145. September 1, 2026 The Third Avenue redesign, unstalled — *A nurse walking home from an overnight shift was killed in the crosswalk on a corridor the city drew a fix for three years ago and never built.* Top story
  146. August 31, 2026 Park Slope Police are looking for a man who approached a 38-year-old woman from behind on 15th Street near 5th Avenue just after 3 a.m. Saturday and sexually assaulted her in the street.
  147. August 31, 2026 East Williamsburg Eight low-rise residential buildings are going up around Woodpoint Road and Bushwick Avenue, including a seven-story, 24-unit building at 241 Conselyea Street whose developer bought the site in June for $9.2 million.
  148. August 31, 2026 Bay Ridge The most-viewed listing on Brownstoner this week was a Mackay Place three-family at $1.995 million; the cheapest on the list was a Shore Road co-op at $360,000.
  149. August 31, 2026 The hit-and-run death of nurse Jiayi Zheng on Third Avenue — *She worked one block from where she was killed, and one block from where another nurse at the same hospital died on the same avenue in 2020.* Top story
  150. 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..
  151. 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.
  152. 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.
  153. 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.
  154. 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.
  155. 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.
  156. 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.
  157. 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.
  158. 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.
  159. 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.
  160. 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.
  161. 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
  162. 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
  163. 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
  164. 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
  165. 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
  166. 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.
  167. 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.
  168. 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.
  169. 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.
  170. 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.
  171. 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
  172. 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
  173. 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.
  174. 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
  175. 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.
  176. 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.
  177. 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.
  178. 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.
  179. 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.
  180. 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.
  181. 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
  182. 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.
  183. 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.
  184. 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.
  185. 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.
  186. 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.
  187. 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.
  188. 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
  189. August 19, 2026 A woman was fatally stabbed in Crown Heights' Lincoln Terrace Park after a dispute; police are still hunting a shirtless suspect.
  190. August 19, 2026 Boerum Hill's fire-damaged 1890s church sold for $28.25 million to a developer planning to demolish it.
  191. 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.
  192. 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.
  193. 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.
  194. 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
  195. 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.
  196. 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.
  197. 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.
  198. 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.
  199. August 15, 2026 The City Council made roadway dining sheds a year-round fixture, ending restaurants' annual teardown-and-storage ritual.
  200. August 15, 2026 Brooklyn's asking rents hit a record median of $4,500 as inventory drops, Brownstoner reports.
  201. 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.
  202. 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.
  203. August 14, 2026 NineDot will break ground on a Bushwick battery storage facility meant to ease the blackouts that have hit Bushwick Houses' elevators.
  204. 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.
  205. 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.
  206. 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.
  207. 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.
  208. 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.
  209. August 11, 2026 Canarsie A 30-year-old man was shot dead on Canarsie Pier early Sunday; police say a dispute preceded it.
  210. 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.
  211. 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.
  212. 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.
  213. 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.
  214. 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.
  215. 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.
  216. 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.
  217. 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.
  218. 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.
  219. 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.
  220. 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.
  221. 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.
  222. 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.
  223. 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.
  224. 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.
  225. 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.
  226. 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.
  227. 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.
  228. 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.
  229. 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.
  230. 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.
  231. 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.
  232. 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.
  233. 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.
  234. 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.
  235. 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%.
  236. 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.
  237. 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.
  238. 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%.
  239. 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.
  240. 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.
  241. 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.
  242. 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.
  243. 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.
  244. 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.
  245. 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.
  246. 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.
  247. July 25, 2026 On-street trash containers are coming to Downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, DUMBO, and four more Community Board 2 neighborhoods this fall.
  248. 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.
  249. July 25, 2026 NY hardcore icon Lou Koller, frontman of Sick of It All, died at 59 after a battle with esophageal cancer.
  250. 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.
  251. 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.
  252. 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".
  253. 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.
  254. 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.
  255. 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.
  256. 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.
  257. July 22, 2026 East New York Gunfire outside a Pennsylvania Avenue McDonald's wounded three teenagers just before midnight Monday; no arrests yet.
  258. 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.
  259. 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.
  260. July 21, 2026 Crown Heights A Brooklyn developer is turning a shuttered nightclub into a 50-unit residential project.
  261. July 21, 2026 Williamsburg Mesiba, the Eastern Mediterranean restaurant inside the Moxy Hotel known for its communal lamb-neck dinners, served its last guests.
  262. 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.
  263. 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.
  264. 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.
  265. 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.
  266. 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.
  267. 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.
  268. 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.
  269. 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.
  270. 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.
  271. 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.
  272. 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.
  273. July 15, 2026 Downtown Roughly 500 Brooklyn Defender Services staff authorized a Thursday strike over pay and sick time as contract talks stall.
  274. 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.
  275. 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.
  276. 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.
  277. 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.
  278. 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.
  279. 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.
  280. 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
  281. 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.
  282. 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.
  283. 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.
  284. 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.
  285. 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.
  286. 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.
  287. 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.
  288. July 10, 2026 Downtown Hundreds rallied at Borough Hall demanding Congress extend Temporary Protected Status before Haitian work permits lapse Friday.
  289. 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.
  290. 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.
  291. 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
  292. 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.
  293. 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.
  294. 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.
  295. 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.
  296. 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.
  297. 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.
  298. 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.
  299. July 8, 2026 Saint Vitus, the underground punk and metal bar, is reopening in Bushwick.
  300. 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
  301. 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.
  302. July 7, 2026 Red Hook A new Red Hook rental is opening a lottery for 239 affordable apartments starting at $777 a month.
  303. July 7, 2026 East Flatbush The state attorney general charged a man with stealing an elderly owner's East Flatbush home through deed theft.
  304. July 7, 2026 An NYPD detective shot in Brooklyn last weekend may have been hit by friendly fire from his own partner, police say.
  305. 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.
  306. 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.
  307. 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.
  308. 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.
  309. 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.
  310. July 5, 2026 Eight shot at Coney Island fireworks Top story
  311. 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.
  312. 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.
  313. 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.
  314. 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.
  315. 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.
  316. 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.
  317. 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.
  318. 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.
  319. 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.
  320. 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.
  321. 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.
  322. 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.
  323. 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.
  324. 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.
  325. 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.
  326. 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.
  327. 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.
  328. 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.
  329. 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."
  330. 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.
  331. 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.
  332. 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.
  333. 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.
  334. 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.
  335. 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.
  336. 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.
  337. 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.
  338. 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.
  339. 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.
  340. 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.
  341. 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.
  342. 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.
  343. 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.
  344. 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)
  345. 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)
  346. 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.
  347. 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.
  348. 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.
  349. 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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