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  1. October 3, 2026 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.
  2. September 30, 2026 A new $128 million multi-service center at 444 Thomas Boyland St. finished two years early and $10 million under budget.
  3. September 26, 2026 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.
  4. September 17, 2026 A B12/B14 shelter on Pitkin Avenue got a green roof that absorbs 16 gallons of rain, a pilot running through at least November.
  5. September 12, 2026 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.
  6. August 24, 2026 Permits were filed for a nine-story, 99-unit mixed-use building at 69 Chester Street, a block from the L at Sutter Avenue.
  7. August 23, 2026 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.
  8. August 11, 2026 NYCHA tenants sued the city, alleging the NYPD secretly tapped public housing camera feeds through a free Wi-Fi program.
  9. August 8, 2026 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.
  10. July 15, 2026 ICE agents brought an injured detainee to Brookdale Hospital and left masked despite state law, on two flattened tires after activists slashed them.
  11. July 11, 2026 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.
  12. June 30, 2026 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."

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