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  1. September 22, 2026 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.
  2. September 17, 2026 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.
  3. September 16, 2026 Mauricio Granda, 47, was charged with murder after his wife, Maria Ines Granda, 59, was found dead on their couch on 79th Street.
  4. August 31, 2026 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.
  5. August 30, 2026 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.
  6. August 29, 2026 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.
  7. August 25, 2026 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.
  8. August 12, 2026 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.
  9. August 2, 2026 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.
  10. June 29, 2026 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.

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