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• Mamdani administration skips pied-à-terre tax rollout hearing as Council members fume over unanswered questions

  18-08-2026 23:15 via amny.com
  
  Five days after Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was confident his officials could juggle a City Council hearing with an ongoing lawsuit over the pied-à-terre tax rollout, his administration declined to show up Tuesday, leaving lawmakers to air questions without anyone from City Hall there to answer them.In written testimony submitted instead, Department of Finance (DOF) Commissioner Richard Lee said the “pending and active litigation precludes me” from appearing in person and rev
  
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• Brooklyn Brewery prepares to move to Wythe Avenue, will bid farewell to original taproom on Aug. 29

  18-08-2026 22:12 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn Brewery is preparing to leave its longtime home for greener pastures just a few blocks away.After 30 years on North 11th Street, the brewery is set to relocate to a larger, airier space on Wythe Avenue this fall, and will bid farewell to its original location with a rollicking goodbye party on Aug. 29. “We've spent thirty years building something special on North 11th Street, and now we have the chance to take everything we've learned — about beer, hospitality, and comm
  
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• NYers say Citi Bike has gotten too expensive, can a new advocate-led campaign make it cheaper?

  18-08-2026 21:30 via amny.com
  
  As Citi Bike has ballooned in popularity, it has also become dramatically more expensive, with the price of a 45-minute electric bike ride for members nearly tripling over the past five years.The transporation advocacy group Transportation Alternatives wants to change that.The group last week launched a campaign to cap the price of a Citi Bike member's 45-minute ride at just $3, equivilent to the cost of a subway or bus fare. The price of such a Citi Bike ride has shot up over the past five year
  
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• Atlantic Antic returns with music, food and fun on Sept. 27

  18-08-2026 20:54 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn’s self-proclaimed largest and oldest street festival will return for its 51st year of music, food and fun next month. The Atlantic Antic will take over a 1.5 mile stretch of Atlantic Avenue on Sept. 27, with hundreds of vendors and thousands of people expected to fill the streets.A celebration of the neighborhood and its residents and cultures, the festival will offer a wide variety of activities and a chance to meet up with friends old and new. [caption id="attachment_2
  
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• Sand, sculptures and summer fun: Coney Island’s 34th annual competition crowns its winners

  18-08-2026 20:40 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Forget the hot dogs — Coney Island’s got sand on the menu.The infamous beach became a canvas on Saturday as sand sculptors of all ages gathered for the annual Coney Island Sand Sculpting Competition. The free community tradition, now in its 34th year,  drew competitors and curious beachgoers to the shoreline at West 12th Street on Aug. 15, where every mound of sand was claimed and transformed into a work of art.By the end of the afternoon, four winners had emerged across the com
  
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• Beyond hot flashes: Maimonides experts tackle the stigma around menopause

  18-08-2026 16:48 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Menopause is no longer something women are expected to simply suffer through in silence. As more people speak openly about the physical and emotional changes that come with midlife, Brooklyn Paper spoke with Sarah Zuercher, director of OB/GYN Clinical Programs and a Menopause Society-certified provider at Maimonides’ Menopause Center, and Dr. Emilyn Brodsky, a pelvic floor physical therapist at Maimonides, about what patients should know about perimenopause, menopause and life after menopa
  
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• In Bushwick, a gallery that comes alive in the dark

  18-08-2026 15:42 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  When the lights go out in Bushwick’s Aliume Art Gallery, the artwork is only just beginning.Paintings glow beneath ultraviolet light, colors appear to shift and kinetic sculptures spin into hypnotic geometric patterns. Then, when the lights are shut off completely, the work changes again, revealing an otherworldly landscape created from phosphorescent materials.A different way of seeingFor Alex Aliume, the Ukrainian-born artist behind the gallery, the transformation is the point. Located a
  
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• Woman stabbed to death in Brooklyn park, suspect at large

  18-08-2026 15:28 via amny.com
  
  Police are on the hunt for a killer after a woman was brutally stabbed to death inside a Brooklyn park early Tuesday morning.According to police sources, cops from the 77th Precinct were called to Lincoln Terrace Park at around 12:41 a.m. after a 911 caller reported an assault in progress. When cops arrived, they found a 30-year-old woman with stab wounds in her chest, back and head. EMS rushed the victim to Brookdale Hospital, where her wounds were too severe, and she was pronounced dead.
  
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• Historic Boerum Hill church headed for demolition as developer buys site for $28.25M

  18-08-2026 15:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The days are numbered for an impressive Romanesque Revival church that has commanded the corner of Schermerhorn Street and Third Avenue Avenue in Boerum Hill since the late 1800s. Brooklyn developer Tankhouse is in contract to buy the site for $28.25 million and plans to tear down the fire-damaged structure, court documents show.Last week, the court approved the sale of Next Step Community Church (formerly First Baptist Church) at 360 Schermerhorn Street. Tankhouse founders Sam Al
  
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