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• From Greenpoint merchants to Chinatown lights: Where NYC’s $8.4M small-business grants are going

  17-08-2026 22:50 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani is allocating a large chunk of an $8.4 million small-business grant package toward strengthening merchant groups and business improvement districts,  and, in some neighborhoods, laying the groundwork for new merchant organizations along New York City’s commercial corridors.The grants announced Monday by Mamdani and the Department of Small Business Services will also pay for street cleaning, lighting, public art, wayfinding, marketing and other neighborhood improve
  
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• Visitation Academy to be sold to group of real estate investors, developers

  17-08-2026 22:26 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Two years after Visitation Academy closed its doors, the school and attached monastery are set to be sold to developers for more than $42 million in a deal locals say was kept secret until the last minute.The Attorney General’s office last week approved the sale of the 7.5-acre campus from the nonprofit Sisters of the Visitation of Brooklyn to a group of real estate developers and investors, likely setting the stage for a large-scale redevelopment. The buyer, recently-founded 1137 91
  
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• Hermès nears opening in faux-old Williamsburg building

  17-08-2026 22:15 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Hermès is set to open any day now on the corner of North 6th and Berry Street in Williamsburg. Signage is up in the windows, and the storied French luxury brand recently advertised for a general manager ahead of its long-promised fall opening of the permanent Brooklyn flagship at 111 North 6th Street.While there is no actual “Hermès” shop sign, at least not yet, even from a distance larger-than-life images of its signature orange boxes tied with brown and white cotton r
  
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• ‘By community, for community’: Brooklyn hubs carve out spaces of their own

  17-08-2026 18:48 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn’s network of small, community-run hubs has never been more important than now, their founders and directors say.These hyper-local hubs — stores, community centers and food banks — go beyond their traditional roles by serving a larger purpose. They often offer free resources, programming and workshops. They serve as a gathering space for the block. And they are united by a common goal: community sovereignty.By neighbors, for neighbors, they say.Now, amid nationwide poli
  
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• Brooklyn firefighters battle string of weekend blazes, including Fort Greene battery fire

  17-08-2026 16:13 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Firefighters across Brooklyn were kept busy over the weekend, battling a series of fires in apartments, homes and commercial buildings, including a blaze involving lithium-ion batteries at a Fort Greene storage facility.The most significant fire came early Saturday, when firefighters in Fort Greene responded to a report of a fire at a commercial building at 1 Carlton Ave. just after 4 a.m.Responding units were met by a burning lithium-ion battery outside a storage facility. After cutting through
  
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